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Imagine Frankie Valli stepping in on vocals for Jersey Boys. Or Ringo Starr manning the drum kit for the Beatles tribute Rain. Such is the electrifying effect of the presence of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong as the drug dealing St. Jimmy in Ame… more »

Theatrical experiences rarely come in more intimate forms than Green Eyes. This production of a long-lost Tennessee Williams play—how many of them are there, exactly?—is being performed in a room at midtown’s Hudson Hotel, with its fourteen audience memb… more »

Sharp dialogue delivered by a quintet of superb actors enlivens Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz’s entertaining if ultimately overly familiar dysfunctional family drama. Director Joe Mantello’s superb staging of this work about a California clan squa… more »

Don’t expect a respite from the frosty temperatures at the superb production of John Gabriel Borkman being presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From the mounds of snow dotting the bleak set to its chilly emotional climate, Ibsen’s 19th century cla… more »

It’s safe to say that there hasn’t been a Lady Bracknell quite as haughtily imperious as Brian Bedford’s in the pitch-perfect new production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Playing the grand dame who looks at her daughter Gwendolyn’s prospective suit… more »

Just in case you somehow fail to realize that the blue-collar family at the center of Blood from a Stone is falling apart, the set designed by Derek McLane periodically alerts you. Several times during the course of this new work by first time playwright… more »

The concept of illness as metaphor has long been a fertile area for playwrights, the latest example being Obie Award-winner Adam Bock’s (The Receptionist, The Thugs) A Small Fire at Playwrights Horizons. Tracking the physical disintegration of a vibrant… more »

The back story behind Being Harold Pinter is nearly as compelling as this powerful, politically themed show itself. Being presented by the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, this production by the Belarus Free Theatre almost didn’t make it to the… more »

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