Theater Review | 'Rock Doves': The Troubles Arenât Dead; Theyâre Not Even Past
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Buoyant, colorful acting enlivens this moderately contrived but engaging comedy from Marie Jones, the author of âStones in His Pockets.â
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The uneven distribution of the burdens of the Iraq war among Americans is the worthy subject of âFlags,â a sadly clumsy new play by Jane Martin.
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Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families.
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Wednesdayâs performance of âWhat if Saori Had a Party?,â about dreams versus reality, is surprisingly intricate but more artful than engrossing.
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Playbill - Theatre watchers always expected David Hare's play on the Iraq war, Stuff Happens, to be controversial, but not quite in the way it has turned out - and certainly not before it has even opened.
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âComanche Moon,â like âLonesome Doveâ before it, upends the classical code of the film western, one that prizes the heroâs commitment to chastely maintaining the social order as the ennobling alternative to intimacy.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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Away from the glitz of London's West End, mostly unsung theatrical heroes and heroines battle against the odds to keep small, independent venues alive.
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The inability to connect in a hyper-wired world is old news given fresh voice in this tragicomic indie about the way we live.
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Away from the glitz of London's West  End, mostly unsung theatrical heroes and heroines battle  against the odds to keep small, independent venues alive.
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Shakespeare, specialist in flawed heroes, would have had a field day with Yasser Arafat. His life, his secrecy-shrouded illness and his death in Paris on Thursday were rich with symbolism of the aching tragedy of missed potential.
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Sarah Ruhl's devastatingly lovely theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth may just be the most moving exploration of loss that the American theater has produced since 9/11.
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While âRolling Like a Stoneâ has poignant and funny moments, itâs a serious film about mortality, success and the ephemeral nature of experience and memory.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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The Cleveland Rockers were reeling from something more disheartening than a gut-wrenching loss, or elimination from the playoffs. They had just been informed that they no longer existed.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Thereâs not a single wrong note in âLiberty Kid,â Ilya Chaikenâs poignant drama about marginal lives strained to breaking by the aftermath of Sept. 11.