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The Importance of Play Readings

“Invisible Man” cast member McKinley Belcher III discusses the value of readings.

'Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol' Is a Dizzying Digital Wonder

“Reid Farrington’s A Christmas Carol” is a stylish and funny remix of Dickens’ classic, with Everett Quinton’s Scrooge haunted by the digital ghosts of nearly 40 film versions.

Moving to the Main Stem, ‘The Other Place’ Only Gets Richer

Laurie Metcalf is devastating in Sharr White’s penetrating dementia drama “The Other Place,” originally from MCC Theater and now on Broadway courtesy of Manhattan Theatre Club.

Heartless

Sam Shepard’s “Heartless,” his latest symbolic drama, gets loving attention from Signature Theatre and offers fine performances, particularly from Lois Smith, but still fails to accrete in a persuasive way.

Target Margin Reimagines Yiddish Theater in 'Dukus'

“Dukus,” Target Margin’s largely successful reworking at the Brick of a 1925 play about a duke who converts to Judaism and embraces martyrdom, is nonrealistic and savagely comic.

'In the Red and Brown Water' Makes Marvelous Music

Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s “In the Red and Brown Water” get its L.A. premiere courtesy of Fountain Theatre in director Shirley Jo Finney’s fluid, highly charged production.

At 'The Tragedy of King Arthur by William Shakespeare,' the Tedium Mounts

Arthur Phillips’ problematic “The Tragedy of King Arthur by William Shakespeare,” from the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project, based on his own novel, posits the discovery of a lost work.

In 'Blood Potato,' an Iraq Vet Comes Home to a Troubled Community

An unsettling take on an Iraq vet story, James McManus’ new drama “Blood Potato,” from Apothecary Theatre Company, powerfully explores the destruction that’s going on at home.

Surreal 'Nightmares: a demonstration of the Sublime' Has Tremendous Scope

Buran Theatre’s splendid and trippy “Nightmares: a demonstration of the Sublime,” at the Brick, is an intriguing sensory echo chamber for freeform ideas about art and authorship.

Actors Tackle Parody and 11 o’clock Numbers in ‘Forbidden Broadway’

Three years after it closed in New York, the long-running Off-Broadway revue “Forbidden Broadway” is making a comeback. The newest edition, which parodies past and present Broadway musicals, opens Sept. 6 for a limited run.