★★★★☆ The Shaw Festival's superbly staged and acted revival lands in Toronto for a limited run.

An unusually charming theatrical variation on an eternal theme, I Became We is a curiously beguiling work from writer Mona Pirnot in collaboration with composer Jack D. Coen. Their new and often ...

Feminists especially will be intrigued by the repressive society that is lightly reflected in Phyl, Cicely Hamilton’s 1913 social comedy about a middle-class British woman’s few options in life other ...

Joining them for the holidays are Polly’s sharp-tongued, alcoholic sister Silda (Janney), fresh out of rehab; apolitical son Trip (Keery, who made a splash on Netflix’s Stranger Things ), the creator ...

Any attempt to explain in too much detail the hazy, crazy storyline of King of the Yees likely will result in confusion. Suffice to report Lauren Yee’s “only kind of true” autobiographical comedy ...

Fortunately for Angelique, her sweetheart Cleante (Daniel Croix Henderson), and especially for Argan, there is Toinette (Rachel Bloom), the smart, saucy servant found in many a Moliere comedy, who ...

If you’re going to a Jon Robin Baitz play, prepare to go into battle (so to speak). From The Substance of Fire and A Fair Country to the current revival of Other Desert Cities at the Hudson Theatre, ...

With Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, director Ashford once again knows what he’s doing. In his clever hands, he keeps the action cracking along. Colette struggles effortfully to earn Sakae’s money so’s ...

Andrew Durand plays the title role in the Public Theater's production of the Olivier Award-winning British musical ...

Anyone familiar with English literature—college English majors certainly—has already recognized the above quote. It begins the first chapter of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, the chapter itself ...