Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
The brain jolts to a start at the top of this world premiere and doesn't cease whirring, even after the blood-streaked actors accept their well-deserved ovations. Rajiv Joseph has penned a monumental work.
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When Min Suk Chun's American dream fell through, he left his family in suburban Texas to put his life back together in his native Korea. After 15 years of intermittent communication, he rejoins them to celebrate his hwangap—his 60th birthday and the completion of the zodiac cycle.
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'Nip/Tuck' was a groundbreaking FX drama that's become lost in its tired desire to shock, but Fox's 'Glee' is a tightly done hybrid of musical and dramedy that's unabashedly heartfelt.
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The playwright Yasmina Reza would not only recognize but probably salute "A Play on Words," Brian Dykstra's corrosively funny two-hander.
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"We sent our eldest daughter to a multiracial school in Swaziland for two years—in the '80s." If you want to understand the gnawing power of Ian Bruce's new play 'Groundswell', look to that line. It describes a self-sacrificing commitment to racial equality or a hollow gesture from a ...
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version
Making its New York debut, this newest bit of pop playfulness from Les Freres Corbusier is a silly-smart entertainment that feels like a fifth-grade pageant hatched under the tutelage of The Harvard Lampoon and composed by Spinal Tap.
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Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things
The line that separates a professional production from an amateur one isn't about stars or budget or location. It's a matter of details, such as period-appropriate costumes, not giving characters Styrofoam cups for a play set in 1938, and making the most of a limited playing area.
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'Squiggy and the Goldfish' has a beautiful romance buried beneath layers of flabby slapstick and stale farce.
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If the world could be rendered as simple as 'Angels & Demons', we'd all be living in a less confusing place. Taking to heart the critics' lament that the first Dan Brown novel-to-film 'The Da Vinci Code' was talky, static and arcane, director Ron Howard and his crew have worked ...
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This writing-acting team, real-life best friends since age 12, already have Timothy R. Mackabee's fantastic set to show off, a pink fantasyland crammed with posters from the 1980s and '90s, books, a refrigerator, gewgaws, a sofa, and a stuffed pillow with Liza Minnelli's face on it.
