194 stories by "Diane Snyder"
Memorable performances sometimes pop up where you don't expect them. Sheridan's The Rivals is best known as the play that features the word-misusing Mrs. Malaprop, but the best performances …
The girls in their summer dresses are actually a bunch of guys in Casa Valentina.
Nick Offerman wears only a filthy apron and an oxygen tank in a backpack when Sharr White's Annapurna begins. But that physical exposure is nothing compared to the emotional one awaiting his…
Woody Allen's buoyant, occasionally dark but ultimately gleeful adaptation of his 1994 film is easily one of this season's musical highlights.
With The Realistic Joneses, Will Eno's first play to reach Broadway, more theatergoers will have a chance to sample the weirdness that defines his world and clever wordplay...
There's been some kvetching about the number of King Lears treading the boards of New York theaters this season, but I don't mind at all. Maybe it's because it takes me awhile to fully proce…
Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado usually writes about his heritage, but Worship is about the often unhealthy, tumultuous relationship between students and the mentors they, well, worship. It…
A riveting performance from Tyne Daly solidifies Sheryl Kaller's stirring production.
In between the drama that marked JFK's and Richard Nixon's years in the White House, Lyndon Johnson's presidency tends to get lost. But a new play salutes the crafty Texan.
Similarities abound between Marty, Paddy Chayefsky's best-known work from the 1950s, and Middle of the Night, a less-familiar play from that same decade, now being revived Off Broadway by th…
Irish Rep's new musical, about convicts bound for Australia, has a book by Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan (the group Black 47) and direction and design …
Chances are you've formed an opinion of The Bridges of Madison County, whether you're familiar with Robert James Waller's story in one or more of its forms (novella, feature film and now Bro…
I wasn't sure I was in the mood for two and a half hours of Tom Stoppard on the chilly night that I caught the Acting Company's production of his Rosencrantz abd Guildenstern Are Dead, but m…
Lincoln Center Theater has turned Shakespeare's dark supernatural tragedy into a gothic horror show.
The plucky little Pearl Theatre Company has survived 30 years in the Off Broadway trenches, an amazing feat. To mark the occasion, Terrence McNally was commissioned to write a play that pays…
Ninety minutes of pure joy, After Midnight is a most welcome addition to the Broadway season.
That dustiest of play settings, the English drawing room, becomes the center of a compelling work that's part mystery, family saga, love story and legal drama in Terence Rattigan's The Winsl…
CSC's nervy, nontraditional Romeo & Juliet, which I caught at a Sunday matinee a month after I saw the current Broadway revival, is a welcome surprise. I didn't expect it to be universally e…
The scion of a wealthy family moves to New York to become a playwright. That's the premise of George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth, as well as the dramatist's own biography. But while things wen…
He may be 36, but in looks Orlando Bloom is an inspired choice to play Romeo. His youthful appearance, soft features and adorably floppy hair still scream teen heartthrob...
How can a play that features a 9/11 terrorist fucking a Ponzi-scheme master in ass be as tame and trite as Lee Blessing's A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoof? Given the current …
Should I ever be lucky enough to get on the TARDIS, time-travel back to early-20th-century Vienna, and meet Freud, Mahler and others of their ilk, I would hope they wouldn't be as dull as th…
Soul Doctor comes to Broadway, but is it worth the price of admission?
Broadway still hasn't recovered from Beatles mania. But after Let It Be, the second Fab Four tribute musical to arrive on the Great White Way in the last couple of years (only two years afte…
Forever Tango...whether you see that as a promise or a threat all depends on your affinity for the hot Latin dance and those who perform it. Mine wasn't strong enough to be sustained by this…
