For all intents and purposes, the heroines of Meg Miroshnik’s The Tall Girls are not girls at all. Faced by…
The word “tartuffe” has come into the English language to represent an overly zealous hypocrite or impostor. You can still…
The Chinese term guanxi, at a basic level, can refer to networking, connections, or relationships. More deeply, to a native…
Currently celebrating its silver-jubilee season, Book-It Repertory Theatre has a simple yet formidable mission: “transforming great literature into great theater.”…
On the surface, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is bland and dreary. When it debuted in 1938, Variety called it an…
In 1890, muckraking photographer Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives documented the squalid tenements of New York City. His…
Every morning Vanya and Sonia drink coffee while watching the blue heron feed at their pond in Bucks County, Pennsylvania….
English playwright Peter Shaffer is well known for his powerhouse, stage-filling ’70s works Amadeus and Equus. Back in 1965, this…
In 1954, Joseph Papp produced the first “Shakespeare in the Park” festival in Lower Manhattan. Today, those who wish to…
Chaos Theory Annex Theatre, 1122 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends May 17. Sometimes events do…
Its unnerving to see a play in a church. The set design, lighting, and seating are already restricted; iconography, Bibles,…
A soiree on the science of sex
