Theater Review | 'subUrbia': BogosianÂs Youthful Rage and Alienation, Retrofitted for BlackBerries
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If you feel that to be young, restless and on a dark road to nowhere is no laughing matter, you can always visit the dead-end kids in this black-hole revival.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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There is nary a shriek, of either humor or horror, in this musicalâs drably earnest two hours of throaty sturm und drang.
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Over the past few years, Williamsburg, Brooklyn has evolved into a full-fledged theater district. Call it Off Off Off Broadway.
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This agreeable, lightweight movie turns the malaises of a suburban Chinese-American family into bittersweet farce that teeters between cheeky humor and surface pathos.
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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Christopher Shinnâs crafty and unsettling new play is a quiet, transfixing tale of grief and violence, set in the shadow of the Iraq war.
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SANTA MONICA - People who live in suburbia tend to have more chronic health problems than urbanites, according to a study issued today by a Santa Monica-based think tank.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russiaâs architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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Much of Abi Morganâs play âTenderâ seems overfamiliar â itâs âSex and the Cityâ on downers â and strains credulity. Do people really behave like this?
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with fascist severity is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving Joe Roth's family comedy.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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The âAmerican Experienceâ documentary âGrand Centralâ is such an entertaining wallow for New York PBS viewers that itâs disconcerting to note that it was produced in Boston.
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âPolitics of Passion: Plays of Anthony Minghellaâ consists of two short pieces that explore the limits of ordinary communication.
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Colma, a suburb south  of the city best known for its ubiquitous cemeteries,  ever-present fog and the end of the subway line, is the  improbable setting for San Francisco filmmakers Richard Wong  and H.P. Mendoza&#39;s exuberant, wistful, coming-of-age musical,  &quot;Colma: The Musical.&quot;
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Like any number of Chinese films that make the festival rounds, âDam Streetâ offers a portrait of alienation in a post-Mao world as believable as it is grim, grim, grim.