Happy Days: Beckett's stuck in the sand duo at the Flea

Happy Days - a terrific, scary and funny play and it keeps, in my estimation, getting better. Read More

Actor/Playwright David Adkins' Thoreau in Stockbridge

Thoreau - an opportunity to meet this dynamic individualist as beautifully portrayed and dramatized by David Adkins. . . Read More

Barrington Stage off and running in both its theaters

Shining City - Here's your chance to see a first-rate production of Conor McPherson's stunning play. . . Read More

Man of La Mancha - Jeff McCarthy is a fine Don Quixote . . Read More

A bawdy Dr. Faustus at CSC, with Chris Nothu & Zach Grenier

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Doctor Faustus -- At its best, Belgrader's adaptation is defensibly low, lively and loose. . . Read More

significant Other: J#oshua Harmon's thoroughly modern romantic comedy

Significant Other - #Joshua Harmon's funny and often moving new play about friendship and love for New York single . . . . Read M

My Perfect Mind an off-beat,, moving Lear

My Perfect Mind - Edward  Petherbridge succeeds here by performing, not the tradtional Lear, but an off-beat meditation on the ancient king. . . Read More

a family/pocketbook friendly Midsummer's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream - This streamlined production is an introduction to Shakespeare's lighter side. It's resourceful, entertaining and, most of all, accessible to all ages and any budget.. . Read More

Latest Tempest more tame than temptuous

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The Tempest - a staging that is seriously in search of excitement or any presence of wizardry.Read More

Our London critic loved Teddy

Teddy This exciting, lyrical play with a live band looks at a youth subculture of the 1950s, the Teddy Boys . . . Read More

Barrington Stage launches new season with Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha -# Jeff McCarthy is a fine Don Quixote . . Read Mo

Matilda the hit musical. . .hits the road running strong

Matilda - The road show of the Broadway hit launches its road show at LA's Ahmanson . . Read More

Preludes: the Claire Towe Theater's first musical easy on eyes & ears

Preludes - A surreal but fascinating first musical for the Claire Towe Theater . . Read

The Qualms a sex comedy without much sex from Bruce Norris

The Qualms - Publitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris's sharp but flawed new dark comedy is  buoyed by a first-class cast . . Read More

Rjif Joseph's Guards at the Taj is depressingly timely

Guards at the Taj - Rajif Joseph new play is depressingly timely despite its 17th century setting. It also has much in common with his Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo . . Re

3 very different plays reviewed by our London critic

The Eighth Wonder of the World In the most incredible setting comes this play about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father Marc Brunel and their tunnel under the Thames . . Read More

Oresteia Robert Icke writes and directs a compulsive and compelling modern Oresteia. Read More

Temple Steve Water's play about the Church and capitalism has great comedy and contentious issues as well as Simon Russell Beale on tip top form . . . . Read More

Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait revuewed at curtainup

Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait - Daniel #Talbott's new play presents a measured, thought-provoking, and gripping vision of where today's constant state of war might lead us.Read More

Anne Washbrn"s 10Out of 12: yet another look at backstage life

10 Out of 12 - Playwright Anne #Washburn, with director Les# Waters, creates an exaggerated melodramatic sensibility that is completely copacetic with the horror movie genre to which it is wed . . Read More

#Jim Parsons - a heavenly choice as God's stand-in on Broadway

An Act of God - A big bang of a performance by J#im Parsons . . Read Mo

In Heisenberg Mary-Louise Parker's Kiss isn't just a kiss. . .

Heisenberg - When Mary-Louis Parker plants an impromptu kiss on a stranger's neck, a kiss is indeed becooumes more than just a kiss . . Read More

Jesse Eisenberg-- goes mean-spirited in The Spoils

The Spoils - # Jesse Eisenberg has once again has written himself a character custom-made for his hyper-active style. Though it's the starring role, it's also his new play's least sympathetic one. . . Rea

Three new reviews from our London office

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Temple Steve Water's play about the Church and capitalism has great comedy and contentious issues as well as Simon Russell Beale on tip top form . . . . Read More

Death of A Salesman Antony Sher is brutal as Willy Loman in Gregory Doran's bleak production . . . . Read More

The One Day of the Year This important Australian play caused bomb threats when it first played as two young people challenge the older generation's Anzac Day