I've been to actual funerals that had more life than "The Funeral Director's Wife." This disjointed, rambling new comedy is being advertised as a classic piece of Americana along the lines of "Spoon River Anthology" and "Our Town."
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Sulayman Al-Bassam takes Shakespeare's history play about the infamous ruler and transforms it into a compelling portrait of political maneuvering in a contemporary Arab monarchy.
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If a crazed gunman walked into a schoolhouse in your community, dismissed the boys, shot all the little girls to death, and then killed himself, would you forgive him?
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Gay artists are reclaiming their history. Like "Milk," Jon Marans has done something similar for Harry Hay in his bright and affecting new play, "The Temperamentals."
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Cornerstone Theater Company certainly knows who it is and what it's doing, particularly in its pieces developed out of community collaboration: Los Angeles–centric plays that are all about intention.
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Despite the creators' pedigrees, this tuner comes across as a mildly tasty array of hors d'oeuvres rather than a theatrical feast.
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The Circus Theatricals 14th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays, Evening C
There are 15 plays in three evenings in this annual festival, a mere sample of what Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble can accomplish in approximately 70 minutes
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John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rock musical about an "internationally ignored" transgender German rock star slipped into our consciousnesses at the start of the 21st century.
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Stage biographies are often tripped up when the actor portraying the celebrity bears little resemblance to that person or, worse, attempts an impersonation that falls flat.
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Among Alan Ayckbourn's earliest plays, this comedy zeroes in on four couples and takes an up-close look at one of the prolific British playwright's pet subjects: matrimony.
