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Next Fall

A play by Geoffrey Nauffts Directed by Sheryl Kaller ...

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

A play by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons Directed by John Rubenstein ...

‘The Miracle Worker’ Review

The Miracle Worker A play by William Gibson, directed by Kate Whoriskey ...

The Bridge Project 2010, Pt. 2

The Tempest Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Sam Mendes ...

‘Mr. & Mrs. Fitch’ Review

Mr. & Mrs. FitchWritten by Douglas Carter BeaneDirected by Scott Ellis ...

‘Clybourne Park’ Review

Clybourne ParkA play by Bruce NorrisDirected by Pam Mackinnon ...

Extinction

“Extinction,” by Gabe McKinley, Directed by Wayne Kasserman. Through March...

A Lie of the Mind Review

A Lie of the Mind A play by Sam Shepard Directed by Ethan Hawke ...

Measure For Measure

A play by William Shakespeare Directed by Arin Arbus ...

Happy Now?

A play by Lucinda Coxon Directed by Liz Diamond ...

The Bridge Project 2010—Part 1

As You Like It A play by William Shakespeare Directed by Sam Mendes Starring...

Smudge

A play by Rachel Axler ...

Ages of the Moon

A play by Sam Shepard ...

Time Stands Still

A play by Donald Margulies Directed by Daniel Sullivan ...

Present Laughter

Present Laughter Written by Noel Coward Directed by Nicholas Martin ...

Race

The story, such as it is, concerns wealthy white businessman Charles Strickland, who’s been...

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire hasn’t fared well lately on...

This

Melissa James Gibson’s This concerns widowhood and guilt, adultery and...

In the Next Room

That 19th century doctors treated women for hysteria with vibrators is a rich subject for any...

The Starry Messenger

The Starry Messenger, a leisurely drama about ordinary people unwittingly...

Fela!

Rarely have Broadway musicals made audiences dance and think simultaneously, but...

Girl Crazy

In the depths of the Great Depression, the brothers Gershwin decided the American people needed a...

Ragtime

Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, Ragtime...

Brits Off Broadway 2009

59 E 59’s annual Brits Off Broadway festival is one of the highlights of the season, off and on...

OR

{mosboxtop} {mosboxbottom} “Or,” the latest production by The Women’s Project,...

Quartett

In Heiner Muller’s Quartett, an adaptation of Laclos’ classic 18th...

The Understudy

The Understudy is a farce about an actor, Harry, who arrives for his...

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon’s autobiographical comedy about his Depression-era...

Circle Mirror Transformation

When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty’s community center drama class experiment with...

Broke-ology

Nathan Louis Jackson’s Broke-ology sensitively shows a black family in...

The Royal Family

No one writes plays like The Royal Family, George S. Kaufman and Edna...

Oleanna

Oleanna has electrifying dialogue, blazing emotion and an ending that will leave...

Superior Donuts

Although Superior Donuts seems like Dunkin’ Munchkins next to Letts’...

Theater Roundup

A trio of one-woman shows and another of monologues and dialogues written, starring and directed by...

Mamet Plays

Keep Your Pantheon and School are an inconsequential David Mamet...

Vigil

Vigil tells the wickedly funny story of a selfish bank drudge who is tending to the dying aunt he...

Aftermath

New York Theatre Workshop’s Aftermath, by Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen (directed by...

The Retributionists

Based on a true story, Adam Goldfarb’s The Retributionists, a muddled and middling drama with...

Noel Coward

The stylish, urbane Noel Coward stars this summer with 10 one-acts, under the rubric Tonight at...

The Bacchae

In The Bacchae, Dionysus comes to Thebes to wreak revenge for the killing of his mortal mother,...

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