Strange and unique, especially for its time (it was first performed in 1984), 'Starlight Express' is still different in today's theatre landscape. But many of this musical's elements seem outdated.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘All That Fall,’ A Radio Play by Samuel Beckett
Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon are wonderful in Samuel Beckett's radio play directed by Trevor Nunn.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The English Bride’ by Lucile Lichtblau
An interrogation room, and two separated suspects, once lovers, questioned by a Mossad agent about a terrorist act they may have committed. Whose story should you believe?
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noel Coward
Things go very wrong when a medium brings back the spirit of a man's dead wife.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Atomic Jaya’ by Huzir Sulaiman
It isn't every day that a local play, about local people and local issues, comes along that is as funny or more so than the best-heralded comedy from the West
Read More »Theatre Review (LA): ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ at the Falcon
One of the most popular works by the outrageous playwright Charles Ludlam receives a first-class production in Burbank.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): “Bell, Book And Candle”
Kate Middleton plays Gillian Holroyd, witch and bewitching. The character herself is a prominent enchantress in pop cultural history.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sarah Flood in Salem Mass’ by Adriano Shaplin
A new take on the run-up to the Salem witch trials proves a gripping work with echoes of Shakespeare as well as 'The Crucible.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Bike America’ by Mike Lew
Sometimes a wild journey of 4,000 miles brings unexpected results.
Read More »Dance-Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Rite’ at BAM
"The Rite of Spring" descends on Brooklyn in an exciting new context.
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