The biggest problem with this play is show, precisely, what superhuman power and glory Christopher Marlowe expects to attain through his embracing of superficially atheistic dark spirits. More
Anton Chekhov wrote "Ivanov" when he was a mere 27, and it shows, and so the Donmar Warehouse's West End production benefits enormously from having the play re-imagined with the expertise and wisdom of playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter) Tom Stoppard, who is 71. More
Watching this unholy trio of characters stumble their way through an ill-conceived plan to rob a rare coin collection is, as usual, a treat. And with the lowlife characters pathetically couching their nefarious activities in business-speak language, it even has taken on a freshly contemporary resonance. More
Elizabeth Ashley has always been an actress who commands the stage, and after nearly a half century of treading the boards, she remains as formidable a presence as ever. More
It has traveled a long way -- from England's Chichester Festival Theatre to the West End to Brooklyn to Broadway -- but the new production of "Macbeth," starring Patrick Stewart, has arrived with all its virtues intact. More
Philip Glass' rarely seen 1980 opera about Gandhi receives a magnificent treatment in this new co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera. This "Satyagraha" is both musically and visually gripping. More
An appeal in the case of the apostle who ratted on the messiah in the story of Jesus Christ becomes an electrifying examination of faith and redemption in Stephen Adly Guirgis' excoriating play "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" at London's Almeida Theatre. More
Directed by Bartlett Sher, this lavish production doesn't always succeed on a purely dramatic level, with the story line involving the major characters never quite connecting the way it should. But it does do full justice to the glorious score, and that's more than enough. More
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