No Pay, Nudity- an indie movie featuring a starry theater-centric cast

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ADA-3 authors directing each others plays at La Mama

ADA: Author Directing Author - 3 authors direct 3 plays involving a power struggle between an older and younger characte

Yours Unfaithfully -another enjoyable rescue from obscurity by the Mint Theater

Yours Unfaithfully - The Mint Theater's artistic director Jonathan Bank once again digs a play out of the theatrical archives with enjoyable results Read More

The Liar--mendacity more palatable in theater than political arena

The Liar - Wordsmith par excellence David Ives takes the bad odor out of mendacity with his latest "Transplantation". . . Read More

Tell Hector I Miss Him--well acted but too disconnected mosaic at Atlantic Theater Stage 2

Tell Hector I Miss Him - Paola Lazaro's mosaic of scenes involving characters with little in common beyond being fellow denizens of a few blocks around a convenience store in San Juan, Puerto

Winter Solstice intrigued our London critc

Winter Solstice Roland Schimmelpfennig's play looks at sinister history intruding on modern life in a play named after the darkest day of the year. . . Read More -

Made in China-- an engaging new puppet musical

Made In China - an engaging new puppet musical . Read More

Orange Julus-- memory play with echoes of The glass menagere but not its emotional power

Orange Julius - Like so many wistful, small-cast memory plays about dysfunctional families, Basil Kreimendahl's play co-produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Page 73, reflects the influence of The Glass Menagerie. Re

The Tempest-the last of the all-female prison plays now at St. Ann's

The Tempest - The last an best of Phyllida Loyd's gender bending, prison plays set trilogy prison plays

At last: the fine producttion Jitney deserves

Jitney - August Wilson's early play play finally gets the Broadway production it deserves Read More

Albatross--a new take on the Rime of the Ancent Mariner

Albatross - With its multitude of props, ever-busy stage business, and dynamic projections, this production from the Poets' Theatre of Boston seems determined at all costs to rescue The Rime of the Ancient Mariner from generations of uninspired high-school teaching

The Jag launches a promising life in New Jersey

The Jag - Tightly structured and intense, the interaction of the three characters is beautifully developed

Yasmina Reza's Art -- revived at the Old Vic in London

Art — For those with fond memories of Yasmina Reza's play Art, the original director Matthew Warchus stages a revival at his Old Vic starring Rufus Sewell. . . Read More

The Kite Runner movers from page to London Stage

The Kite Runner It is always tempting to stage a version of a best selling novel and only rarely does it succeed but Matthew Spangler's version of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner has both heart and verve. . . Read More -

Martin McDonagh's Beauty Queen of Lenane now has daughter turned into her mother

The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Druid Theatre Company engrossing revival of Martin McDonagh's horror tale with humor makes a stop in Brooklyn to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the play's 1996 premiere, Read More

Leonard Bernstein's Candide a fine addition to the revived NYCO 's comeback

Candide -Harold Prince directs a Leonard Bernstein's perennial favorite at the newly revived New York City Opera. Read More

Cate Blanchett lends star sizzle to The Present

The Present - The Sydney Theater Company's modern adaptation of Chekhov's first play, with a large ensemble headed by Cate Blanchett and Richard RoxburghRead More