Entries from August 2008 ↓

To ensure that no theater reference goes unappreciated in their musical, the creators and two of the co-stars of ?[title of show]? created a cheat sheet.

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The British writers presenting work this year at the Traverse Theater, the locus of much of the most ambitious playwriting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, were in a gloomy frame of mind.

One Nation Under is a contemporary tragedy, set in 2005, about two mothers and their sons. Things do not end happily for either mother, and I don’t think it gives too much away to say that Lepcio’s strong humanist bent ensures that we understand that the family less equipped economically to deal with trouble bears the brunt of it. One of the lessons of One Nation Under—probably the most important one—is that we are currently living in a nation where the rich provide for themselves, and one way they do that is by dispatching the poor to do the dirty work for them.

The York Theater Company?s decision to fully revive ?Enter Laughing: The Musical? is something of a validation to its author, Joseph Stein.

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Seeing a show that isn?t necessarily in its final form is part of the appeal of previews.

There?s a ripping good performance taking place in a barn on West 21st Street in Manhattan. The play is ?Elizabeth Rex.?

?The New Electric Ballroom? affirms Enda Walsh?s growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

Joey Arias, the 49-year-old star of the production, ?Arias With a Twist,? knows about vanity and vanities: he has nine mirrors in his 14-by-6-foot bathroom.