theater review

The play with music examines family relationships, American folk songs, and a famous highway that connected America's small towns.

This magician’s act proves that it's not how you start, but how you finish.

A potted plant shop provides the setting for second chances.

NEW YORK—Jane Austen’s 1813 novel “Pride and Prejudice” examines societal hierarchy and the dangers of letting the importance ...

NEW YORK—Books, movies, people, and events can all be seen differently with the passage of time. Some rise ...

NEW YORK —The fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lovingly collide in playwright Mark Shanahan’s not-at-all ...

NEW YORK—"There is a way to be good again" is the most telling phrase uttered during the Broadway ...

NEW YORK—Is there anywhere in the world that's truly safe? This is the question at the heart of ...

NEW YORK—Red Bull Theater puts the axiom that people get exactly what they deserve squarely in their sights ...

NEW YORK—No matter how old you may be, there's something magical in touching a floating bubble and then ...

NEW YORK—In a very modest dwelling in Cork City, Ireland, two 30-somethng siblings wrestle with a long-standing problem: ...

CHICAGO—For regular theatergoers, Windy City Playhouse’s aptly named “A Recipe for Disaster” may not be what they’re accustomed ...

For someone who has been acting in plays since he "was knee-high to a grasshopper," the 91 years-young ...

Get set for a terrific two-hour virtual production on YouTube. The scene is a middle-class home in St. ...

“Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic” is like a Disney fairy tale. It’s such an engrossing cinematic spectacle—exhilarating ...

One of Shakespeare’s last plays, “Cymbeline” is considered to be one of his more problematic works. That’s because ...

NEW YORK—Can short stories morph into theatrical entities? British playwright and actor Miles Malleson has theatricalized two short ...

NEW YORK—From the opening exchange between Satan and Beelzebub, Tom Dulack’s script captivates. Dulack’s take on “Paradise Lost” ...

NEW YORK—The great thing about a classic is how, in the right hands, it can be transformed into something ...

NEW YORK—Each of us has links to our past, no matter how we may try to deny them. ...

NEW YORK—Irish Repertory Theatre's downstairs W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre is now presenting a unique offering: It is ...

NEW YORK—The sin of pride leads to more than a few comeuppances in Dion Boucicault's 19th-century farce "London ...

NEW YORK—Few shows start off with as much promise as the new off-Broadway musical "Sing Street," at New ...

NEW YORK—The cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory presently houses "Judgment Day," written by ...

NEW YORK—Len Cariou gives a virtuoso performance as a man determined to live his life on his own ...

NEW YORK—More often than not, the answer to solving a riddle is staring you right in the face. ...

NEW YORK—Theresa Rebeck's delicious new comedy has the audience sniffing actual cooking odors, as temperamental genius chef Harry ...