Playwright Eldridge's "Market Boy" proves messy
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In his big and brash new play  "Market Boy" at the National Theater, playwright David Eldridge  attempts to distill Britain's cruel and greedy Thatcher years  using the life and times of a London street market, but the  result is messy and unconvincing.
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Eve Ensler and Neil LaBute are staging morality plays set in similar places: the playwrights' not-exactly-flat, constantly growling stomachs.
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David Edgar has trimmed his  nine-hour 1982 Tony Award-winning play based on Charles  Dickens' "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" to two  easily digested parts, but they should please audiences just as  much.
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Matt Morilloâs bland play resembles the hokey kind of sitcom parodied so sharply on Comedy Centralâs âSarah Silverman Program.â
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Months after his anti-war drama "Stuff  Happens" opened in New York to largely positive reviews,  British playwright David Hare's follow-up on the Iraq conflict  -- his first work to premiere on Broadway -- drew a mixed  reaction from critics.
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The new production of Maeterlinckâs play at Urban Stages suffers from common genre maladies like heavy-handed messages, overly black-and-white plot elements and unimaginative fantastical elements.
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Arts & entertainment: At a time when West End theatre is at its lowest artistic ebb in years, an attempt is being made to restore quality drama to the commercial sector.
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The exhilarating new Off Broadway production of "Hurlyburly" is shrewd to keep the play where it started: in the cocaine-fueled Hollywood of the 80's.
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A new performance of 'Dividing the Estate' finds the legendary playwright very much engaged in present-day issues.
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Trying to guess the choreographer in an unfamiliar company is an occupational hazard of sorts for reviewers.
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National play makes a "routine" fire the poster child for the growing alarm over industrial pollution.
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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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Filmmaker Sai Prakash makes a mess of a potentially serious subject.
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The early days of winter in the London theater scene have brought a wave of panto productions featuring balmy songs, bad puns and cross-dressers.
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When the harrowing play Frozen opened on Broadway this summer, audiences were shaken by the authenticity of Yorkshire playwright Bryony Lavery&#39;s portrayal of the mind of a serial killer.
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I filled this article with obscenities. Wal-Mart cleaned it up.
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The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet").  His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them.  On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders").  The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture).  Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).