‘Father Comes Home From the Wars’ LA Theater Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Entertaining New Masterpiece
The Pulitzer winner’s new drama at Mark Taper Forum is a thought-provoking, oddly funny exploration of slavery
The Pulitzer winner’s new drama at Mark Taper Forum is a thought-provoking, oddly funny exploration of slavery
The beauty and horror of seeing Florian Zeller’s play is that we’re taken inside the head of a man who’s losing his mind
The Classic Stage Company presents a theater rarity, as well as a clash of religions and acting styles
Anne Washburn asks and answers many deep questions in what sometimes resembles a radio play, with the audience too often looking at a bare stage
Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okonedo also join the Salem foray in Ivo van Hove’s remarkable and disturbing new staging of an Arthur Miller classic
Job had it easy compared to Tarell Alvin McCraney’s put-upon heroine, who endures not only God’s plague of death but a crumbling set
Elements from such unwed-mother movie classics as “A Summer Place,” “To Each His Own,” and “Way Down East” are set to bluegrass score
Krasinski is far more relaxed on stage than Danes, which leads to a peculiar sexist subtext to Sarah Burgess’ financial drama at the Public Theater
David Cromer builds the suspense up to an eerie sex scene in Lucy Prebble‘s new thriller. What will Act 2 bring? It’s not what you...
A fine new revival is as sweet and sugary as its most famous tune, but never loses touch with the characters’ pain and heartbreak
Kenneth Lonergan’s new comedy looks at the Nashville/Hollywood axis and a monster it has spawned
Kate Davis’ 2001 documentary about a transgender man is now a musical. The songs aren’t as didactic as “I Am What I Am,” but a...
Pasquale brings his easy, natural charm to the stage, while the rest of the cast gets lost in the sticks of Ma and Pa Kettle
Daniels reprises a great performance. Williams is mannered to the point of distraction
Occasionally a performer breaks through the ice of mediocrity to showcase real comic chops in this jukebox musical homage to the 1970s
Marco Ramirez’s play depicts a thinly fictionalized version of the pioneering black boxer from the early 20th century, taking us inside the athletes’ heads
The Oscar-winning actor delivers a most endearing Erie, right down to the nervous giggle he adds to punctuate the character’s otherwise bottomless despair
Noah Haidle’s play takes us inside the womb to give us the inside track on what it’s like to be born. It’s as audacious as...
Rylance offers an older version of Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in this play about ice fishing, thermal underwear and life up...
Nat Wolff (“The Fault in Our Stars”) and Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) also star in revival of a play with no good words for...
Lydia R. Diamond’s new play is about racism in the way that Jules Feiffer’s “Carnal Knowledge” screenplay is about sexism. Nothing else is open for...
Former “Will & Grace” star takes over for Jim Parsons, who played the Divine One in the virtually one-man show last summer on Broadway
The young student hero of Shanley’s play talks like a 65-year-old playwright who took an adult education course in Western civilization
Richard Greenberg’s fictitious revelations can’t compare to the play’s central bombshell, which can be found on Wikipedia
Return visitors to Michael Frayn’s three-act comedy may find watching its play within a play too much of a bad thing
There isn’t enough of Armstrong’s music and there’s way too much of Rolin Jones’ book, which achieves the uneasy feat of being both amateur and...
Under John Doyle’s inspired direction, sex emerges as a major ingredient in this very adult musical, whether it’s sex to make love, to abuse someone,...
In a rock musical based on the 2003 American movie, you exit humming Mozart — yes, Mozart
Pacino never hides his technique, which is what makes him so entertaining to watch. Here, he brings out his entire arsenal of shtick
Director Diane Paulus eschews the pyrotechnics of her recent Broadway outings to embrace a minimalist approach that suits this autobiographical musical to perfection