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Wordy and deep, Jez Butterworth's Olivier-Award-winning play leaps brightly into the sunshine carrying the bloody torch of Irish drama.

I cannot imagine any writer but Conor McPherson effectively providing such a dramatic flight path to Bob Dylan’s repertoire. The playwright’s eerie, atmospheric writing effectively implies connections between the material at hand and otherworldly realms. Dylan’s titular song is part of the hybrid McPherson musical Girl from the North Country, …

Mark Rylance performed Harold Pinter’s lecture 'Art, Truth, and Politics', a scathing critique of U.S. military actions, with an emphasis on actions by Ronald Reagan in Nicaragua and George W. Bush in Iraq.

Actress Heidi Schreck's timely 'What the Constitution Means to Me' casts a long shadow and provides trenchant perspectives.

This fine new production uses an admirable new translation from the French that stays close to the original, giving us Wilde indeed, flaws and all.

This horror drama follows three intertwining monologues told by three women whose lives are all connected in ways that go beyond what is immediately apparent.

In this hysterical production you will find a rainbow of amazement and an intriguing conclusion – and probably learn the difference between pool and snooker. However, some of Bean's humor may be lost in mangled accents.

Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company charge up Aaron Poochigian's balanced new translation in a graceful 90-minute production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae,' alive with ecstatic bacchanalia and gruesome violence.

Tennessee Williams' ironies and humor seek a fine level in this satisfying and heartfelt production.