Marsha Mason, actress turned racecar driver turned entrepreneur, concedes to having a poor sense of direction. "Thank God a racetrack comes full... More >>

The onslaught is coming; the deluge is nigh. But before the spring theater season escalates to a fever pitch later this month, during the current... More >>

Tuesday, December 4, 1956, was a night like any other night — a night of sports and television and music. In a basketball barnburner in... More >>

Money and Chance are two young men from the streets who have committed themselves to hitting the big time as rappers and doing it with artistic... More >>

This past Friday, out in the real world, in Boston and across America, anxious citizens waited through the day and into the evening for news of... More >>

It's so easy to spark a protest these days. Write an anonymous letter. Go online. And so, with ever increasing frequency we read reports of... More >>

After surviving the loss of her parents, an unloving fostership by her aunt and years in a grim school for poor girls, Jane Eyre lands her first... More >>

The modern world does not accept the presence of monsters. There are horrible people out there, sure, but we explain them away by deconstructing... More >>

On the surface, two of this week's new stage offerings could not be more disparate. One story is mostly set in 15th-century Spain, the other... More >>

If life were a song lyric, then it would be a given that people who need people are the luckiest people in the world. But in the cheerfully... More >>

Three Jewish men huddle in the ruins of their family estate, trying to cobble together the necessary ingredients for a Passover seder. Caleb... More >>

As the playbill cover for Double Indemnity makes vibrantly clear, lipstick and bloodstains share the same bold color. But any shade of red is... More >>

After a brief and unnecessary prologue, the first thing you see on the stage is a foal. His nostrils quiver, his legs tremble, his ears twitch,... More >>

Early in the first act of St. Louis Shakespeare's production of As You Like It, a wrestling match breaks out. Orlando (Aaron Dodd), a hotheaded... More >>

So here's a guy you want to have on your radar screen. The 19th-century author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born and raised in the old Austrian... More >>

We never see the dog, Carrot, in Daniel Damiano's Day of the Dog, currently seeing its world premiere courtesy of St. Louis Actors' Studio. We... More >>

Robert is not your typical boy next door. He lives the high life in Paris, where his spacious apartment — lots of bedrooms, lots of doors... More >>

Only a theater wonk would know if The Book of Mormon, the frisky new musical that is beguiling playgoers (and perhaps offending some) at the Fox... More >>

How do you like your steak? Rare? Medium-well? Seared? David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, currently being staged by New Jewish Theatre, doesn't offer... More >>

It is the night before the day of reckoning. A traveler does what any ordinary man might do when he returns to his motel room late at night. He... More >>

Here's a litmus test to determine whether you'll enjoy Charles Busch's Psycho Beach Party, currently being staged by Stray Dog Theatre: A... More >>

Must wealth always be mentioned?" eighteen-year-old Marianne Dashwood irritatedly asks her widowed mother, who has just singled out the financial... More >>

How do vegetarian socialists fall in love? Can they even feel love? John Morogiello addresses those questions in his period rom-com, Engaging... More >>

As you might expect, a musical about two drag queens and a transsexual journeying into Australia's Outback by bus is rife with spectacle. The... More >>

When a theater company presents two one-acts by different playwrights — as Mustard Seed Theatre is currently doing under the direction of... More >>

Martin is a man at the top of his game. He has just been awarded architecture's grandest prize, he has won a plum assignment designing the city... More >>

You wonder how these things begin. This begins with a woman, old and diminutive, hiding away in shadows from the tyranny of time. It is... More >>

Upstream Theater has established a reputation as an innovative and thought-provoking company. The only certainty at an Upstream show is that... More >>

The plays of August Wilson lend themselves to two kinds of productions. There's rich August Wilson, and then there's long August Wilson. Over the... More >>