Booth, like Robert Falls, whose role she is taking at the Goodman, has shown how a strong, visionary director can keep a creative whirlwind in motion for decades. Over the last twenty-one ye…
Before the two lovers met in person, they knew each other only through letters traded during the final two harrowing years of World War II.
Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman's intimate Owen Theatre.
Among other compelling reasons to see "Choir Boy" is the power and musicianship on songs sung by the young men who play the students in the choir at the Black, Christian Charles R. Drew Scho…
The brilliance of this musical about the family and circle of a self-help guru manifests from so many directions that the show sweeps one magically, whimsically, sometimes tragically, in a w…
We need to laugh at the peculiar social and political currents of our time, at the purely silly and absurd and at dick and vagina jokes.
This supersonic super sonic musical journey through The Temptations' lives and the hits catalog of this Motown megagroup is riveting fun.
Over the last seventy years, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has proved an impressively durable cultural touchstone. Playwright Aaron Sorkin retains the earlier play's many sordid elements and adds …
She is called Afong Moy by the white men who presented her in a "museum" beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
Recreational fencing is an apt metaphor for the kinds of relationships where friends unrelentingly challenge each other.
Yasen Peyankov's translation and trimming of the script plays up the comedy, letting it flow from the Chekhovian checklist of dreadful character traits.
Melissa Ross' "The Luckiest" is a fully compelling, emotionally potent play.
Many teens will find catharsis and perhaps gothic glamor in the suffering of these teens.
A daughter holds a bundle of secrets that she feels she must keep, but which uproot her relationship with her family.
"WTSUWIGD" takes on a wide range of social toxins and portrays an equally wide range of how Blacks cope and respond.
Lucas Hnath's quick-talking historical drama centers on Isaac Newton's hypothesize that an experiment that requires a needle to be inserted into a living human's eye will prove his theory on…
The show draws on the familiarity of Hans Christian Andersen's "Princess and the Pea" but with a celebration of human character and the charms of oddballs.
It is a fascinating exploration of lives and a friendship that ends in a tie, pretty much in the state in which it started. At the same time, it is a play about the lives of men.
The long-running, ever-changing show is a cirque du smirque that mixes song, comedy and acrobatics.
For all the trouble "Ruined" so powerfully captures, it also gives us the human capacity for tenderness in the face of anarchy and hellish violence.
A musically superb, deeply affecting songfest.
The story captures God's chief expectation, that people spend their lives bettering life for all on Earth.
Eight women and one man, vocal powerhouses all, move quickly from tune to tune.
Smook's singing, puppetry, voice characterization and mugging have vaudeville polish.