Review: ‘Soon’
Film director Hal Hartley ("Henry Fool," "Trust") turned his attention to the stage in 1998, writing this theater piece, inspired by the 1993 Waco confrontation between the Branch Davidians and the…
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B’way strikes out amid baseball, time change
Broadway producers must wish they still had those labor concessions in play. Last week, no fewer than 16 shows registered grosses that fell under tallies recorded the week of Sept. 24-30, the first…
‘Graduate’ picks up road dates pre-B’way bow
Kathleen Turner, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone take "The Graduate" on the road prior to its Broadway run, now confirmed to open at a Shubert theater on April 4.
Broadway’s workshops are rivaling Santa’s
Robert Hofler: Noises Off
Review: ‘The Time of Your Life’
This production of William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" offers so many small pleasures that it's forgivable that it never quite delivers a big one. Exceptionally well cast -- no easy feat for an…
Review: ‘The Good Thief’
For the second offering of the Long Wharf Theater season, acting artistic director Greg Leaming has brought from New York last year's Keen Co. production of this solo play by Irish playwright Conor…
Review: ‘Kingdom of Earth’
In one precipitous dive, the Yale Repertory Theater has lurched from the highly polished pleasures of its season opener, Shaw's "You Never Can Tell," to an utterly ill-advised revival of Tennessee…
Review: ‘Caught in the Net’
From Alan Ayckbourn's playbook, "Caught in the Net" combines the homes of two families on one set: The color scheme divides the back wall of the set, where each family has its own front door, but…
Review: ‘Star Quality’
"Why can't people in the theater behave like ordinary human beings?" snaps Bryan Snow (Nick Fletcher), the young dramatist of a London-bound play, "Dark Heritage," that is having a rough time of it…
‘Love, Janis’ won’t hold on after Sunday
"Love, Janis" follows "Reefer Madness" as another Off Broadway casualty. The marijuana musical closed Sunday, while Randal Myler's musical take on Janis Joplin set to shutter this Sunday at the…
