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Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at Lyric Opera delivers a blast of Robert Falls’ operatic past
Director Robert Falls' signature maximalism is still with us, I am happy to report, even...
Review: Never flashy, ‘4000 Miles’ by A Short Leap Theatre lets the humanity come through
In Amy Herzog’s 2011 play, a troubled 21-year-old man shows up at his grandmother’s Manhattan...
Review: The Joffrey Ballet takes us to Pea Town in a feel-good, wacky fantasy with a cautionary tale
The adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's “Princess and the Pea” is one of four works...
Review: ‘Clue’ at the CIBC Theatre hasn’t much of one
Clue, or Cluedo in the country of its birth, is one of the best board...
Review: ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ sings to the rafters at the Marriott Theatre
Director Amber Mak's in-the-round production reinvents no wheels in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's...
From classroom to stand-up comedy, teachers take to the stage
Which is harder, a crowd of students or the crowd at a comedy club? Check...
Review: ‘Betrayal’ at the Goodman offers the melancholy of age instead of seduction
Robert Sean Leonard and Helen Hunt play a couple in an extramarital affair in Harold...
Why is Helen Hunt at the Goodman Theatre? ‘Betrayal,’ she says, is more painful later in life
The play by Harold Pinter is a reverse chronology that begins at the end of...
Review: Hubbard Street Dance is back on familiar ground for its winter series
The revival of Ohad Naharin’s “Black Milk” after more than 20 years isn't a step...
Review: ‘Redwood’ on Broadway holds few surprises as Idina Menzel communes with the trees
You'll see the whole story coming from the first minute you enter the forest in...
Today in History: ‘Rent’ premieres off-Broadway
On Feb. 13, 1996, the rock musical “Rent,” by Jonathan Larson, premiered off-Broadway less than...
Review: ‘The Cave’ at A Red Orchid Theatre is about an Ohio family at the start of the Gulf War
Playwright Sadieh Rifai's world premiere introduces us to a Palestinian-American family who must upend their...