The Pearl Theatre Company has earned a well-deserved reputation for excellence in the presentation of both classical theatre and traditional…
Roy Sorrels
In a powerful theatrical amalgam of strong writing, sensitive and imaginative direction, dynamic ensemble acting, and an expressionistic, eerily evocative…
Avenue Q is an unalloyed, call-all-your-friends-and-rave, delightful, joyous, enormously entertaining hit. Bring out the critic’s big box of laudatory adjectives–in…
(photo from the Woolly Mammoth production of the play) One of the toughest roles for an actor to play is…
The texture of life in Dancing at Lughnasa starts out so simply, so much a cross section of the everyday,…
The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett The story is told of the 19th century actor, down on his luck,…
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life is a courageous and fascinating experiment in the creation of a new kind of…
The current production of The Elephant Man is curiously out of balance. It strains to soar into the realm of…
Somewhere in the true story of poet-scholar-novelist Robert Graves and his lover Laura Riding, also a respected poet, there may…
Three old ladies, sisters who have lived all their lives in a small Texas town, tell interminable tales about characters…
Suzanne Bachner’s hilarious and moving play, Circle, is about that most noisily merry and profoundly distressing of subjects, sex. It…
Edward Albee’s new play is puzzling, powerful, bawdy, disturbing and deeply weird. It challenges a viewer to decide whether what…
What happened to the people on the island of Tristan de Cunha is fascinating, and Zinnie Harris has used it…
Near the end of The Castle, K sits outside the forever closed gate of the mysterious castle to which he…