Entries from June 2008 ↓

Peter Askin?s stirring documentary ?Trumbo? gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.

The eager, animated actress-playwright Natalie Mosco tackles perhaps America?s first female superstar painter in ?A Brush With Georgia O?Keeffe.?

Citing concerns about racial sensibilities, officials of the Wilmette Park District in suburban Chicago have canceled a production of ?Ragtime.?

When lovers meet on London?s stages this summer, the odds are it?s not violins they?re hearing. It?s alarm bells.

The Spoleto festival's first weekend had a heavy dose of theater, with a Gallic complexion to it.

The Gateway Playhouse?s absolutely first-rate production of ?Forbidden Broadway? is in full swing.

Mr. Szajna was a playwright, set designer and theater director who through often nearly wordless productions evoked the beastliness of humanity and the oppressiveness of dictatorship.

The line separating reality and dreams is blurred in David Lindsay-Abaire's A Devil Inside and accordingly Wide Eyed Productions blurs the line between realistic acting and a style that is way over the top and, for the most part, this works for them.

The Lincoln Center Festival, which starts Wednesday, has done a bit of a juggling act this year. Ongoing renovations ruled out the New York State Theater and Alice Tully Hall, while Avery Fisher Hall is operational for only one week of the festival's 25-day duration. "The underlying thread this year is that we have had to look elsewhere for performance spaces," the director of the festival, Nigel Redden, said. The original intentions of the festival organizers, such as staging the New York...

Tracy Letts?s ?August: Osage County? is a full theatrical meal. His new play, ?Superior Donuts,? is a much less ambitious repast.