The 1927 musical Strike Up the Band was the first collaboration between the Gershwin brothers, George (music) and Ira (lyrics),…
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Suzanne Bachner’s hilarious and moving play, Circle, is about that most noisily merry and profoundly distressing of subjects, sex. It…
Online references on Arthur Miller "It’s hard to hold a pen with a clenched fist," said Ralph Ellison, and works…
Edward Albee’s new play is puzzling, powerful, bawdy, disturbing and deeply weird. It challenges a viewer to decide whether what…
In Richard Greenberg’s fascinating and flawed new play, The Dazzle, the central character, Langley Collyer, seems to be a direct…
Thirty years after his death, the plays of No�l Coward continue to be performed with great frequency, an indication both…
What happened to the people on the island of Tristan de Cunha is fascinating, and Zinnie Harris has used it…
London: Royal National Theatre February 28 – April 20 There are interesting thematic and structural feints in Sebastian Barrys new…
Michel Tremblay is best known as a political playwright. His 1965 play Les Belles Soeurs, revolutionized Canadian theatre. Written in…
Enda Walsh has yet to achieve the international renown of Conor McPherson, but he is one of the most ferocious…
Near the end of The Castle, K sits outside the forever closed gate of the mysterious castle to which he…
San Francisco American Conservatory Theater January 10 – February 10, 2002 With historical records from the sixteenth century a whole…
Off-Broadway is traditionally known for experimental theatre. So how about an experiment that provides the following: a good story of…
In a scruffy old converted public school in Manhattan’s East Village, Mabou Mines, a bit on the old and scruffy…