By Brian Scott Lipton· Mar 5, 2012 · New York

The challenges of communication come through loud and clear in British dramatist Nina Raine's affecting if slghtly overstuffed play Tribes, now receieving a beautifully acted production under the sure[...]

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By Dan Bacalzo· Mar 5, 2012 · New York

There's a great deal of charm to be found within Amy Conroy's I Heart Alice Heart I, currently receiving its U.S. premiere at Irish Arts Center, that any slight missteps in the performance are quite [...]

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By Andy Propst· Mar 5, 2012 · New York

Make MIne Manhattan, a once-topical musical amuse bouche from 1948, has returned to the stage courtesy of Unsung Musicals at the Connelly Theatre in the East Village. There's plenty of charm and hear[...]

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By Brian Scott Lipton· Mar 2, 2012 · New York

Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in the Three Acts has had a long and unusual history, from its 1934 Broadway premiere through various concert versions, and then the 2000 dance created[...]

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By Andy Propst· Mar 2, 2012 · New York

After earning an unparalleled level of infamy when it premiered on Broadway in 1988, the musical Carrie has returned to the stage in a revised version at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off-Broadway, court[...]

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By Andy Propst· Mar 2, 2012 · New York

Mothers' legacies to their daughters and the ways in which those offspring simultaneously internalize and break free of their inheritances are at the core of the meandering theatrical collage, Marryin[...]

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By Natasha Tripney· Mar 1, 2012 · London

There's a pleasing sense of continuity in Stephen Unwin's production of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea at the Rose Theatre, as Joely Richardson, as the enigmatic Ellida Wangel, is playing a ro[...]

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By Andy Propst· Mar 1, 2012 · New York

After a brief hiatus, Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy are once again squaring off against one another in David Ives' Venus in Fur, now playing at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. The acting duo's time t[...]

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By Iris Wiener· Mar 1, 2012 · New York

Rated P for Parenthood, the new musical comedy currently making its Off-Broadway debut upstairs at the Westside Theatre, is a rarity: it's incessantly funny, consistently thoughtful, full of heart --[...]

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By Brian Scott Lipton· Feb 29, 2012 · New York

As the legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert charmingly acknowledges during one of the free-form patter sections of the extraordinary show he and his longtime wife Lani Hall are now presenting at the Cafe C[...]

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