The past decade has been an odd one for Alkaline Trio. Following the release of the Chicago punk band's eighth studio album, 2013's My Shame Is True, all three members […] The post Alkalin…
REVIEW: Lantern Theater Co.'s A Skull in Connemara
Expect that this Annie will do a bang-up business with families — and, of course, the Sykes factor will draw curious adults.
What is it about the word "Brechtian" that makes me want to reach for a gun?
It's a small miracle that Kander and Ebb's Curtains ever made it to Broadway.
InterAct's Some Other Kind of Person sometimes hits the target on self-interested Helping The Less Fortunate.
When A Little Night Music premiered on Broadway in 1973, it took Sondheim fans by surprise. The composer-lyricist was famous as an acerbic observer of contemporary life; this show's period s…
"Who steals my purse steals trash," says Iago in Othello. But if you doubt that Shakespeare knew the power of money " and its ability to corrupt " look no further than his Timon of Athens. T…
Henry V is officially categorized as one of Shakespeare's histories, though to me it's more specific than that: It's his Boy Play. Don't get me wrong. It's a fine play, at points a very grea…
You might be tempted to assume that A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play about a family in Chicago striving for a better life, is an important part of our theatrical past. Thi…
Theatre Exile's The North Plan attempts to cross Homeland with My Name Is Earl.
Awards for extremely specific on-stage achievements.
And what do they talk about in Lucile Lichtblau's elegant, smart, riveting new play, being given a knockout premiere production at Theatre Exile? The drudgery of daily work life. How to flir…
We review Lantern Theater's freewheeling The Liar.
Mark St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms.
Alienation, photography and a whole lot of Jews on stage this month.
Walnut Street Theatre's Love Story makes no apologies.
Enda Walsh's play is free of the maudlin self-pity that is the soda bread of life for so many Irish dramatists. Don't get me wrong: Walworth Farce is profoundly sad " and funny, scary and de…
Sam Shepard, America's playwright and poet laureate of the modern West, is in his best form in Curse of the Starving Class, a searingly funny-sad take on family dysfunction. Curse dates from…
The behind-the-scenes action around Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, an ingenious homage to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, has been drama-filled, to say the least.
The careers of some of America's greatest musical theater writers have ended with a whimper. So it's heartening that composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb's final work together, The Sco…
"I've always been sophisticated," says Amanda Prynne, the heroine of Noel Coward's beloved Private Lives. Generations of theater-goers agree with her " they follow the on-again, off-again ro…
Logan's very enjoyable play aims high. It doesn't always get there.
Two new productions take on the Holocaust, with mixed results.
A brilliant production might help Ruined cohere, but at PTC, director Maria Mileaf traffics chiefly in big gestures. A few Brechtian touches feel out of place in what is basically a realisti…