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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.

Director Mark Lamos is to be congratulated on imbuing this show with new life and purpose in these trying times. The final moments of this 'Man of La Mancha' present a stark tableau of some of the challenges facing us, including the red-hooded specter of intolerance, images of the falsely imprisoned, and the continued abuse and subjugation of women.

Being Deaf today brings with it controversies over vocalizing, lip reading, and ASL. All of that helps define just one character in Craig Lucas's kaleidoscope of a drama, now in its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.

'The True' succeeds on many levels: the fascinating characters, the acting, the directing. Though the individuals are factual, White teases out the emotional tenor between and among these Albany political operators.

Edie Falco is an unstoppable force as a political operator in this vivid dissection of nitty-gritty party politics.

The Gallery Players' sterling new production reminds us that 'A Chorus Line' is not only loaded with some of the greatest show music ever, but one of the best pieces of meta-theater ever devised.

Through his stilted, abrupt, truth-blurting observations, it's the character with Asperger's who reveals the deepest truths about human relationships in this tour-de-force play by 'Dietland' writer Catya McMullen.

Intermittently funny and unevenly powerful, Mark Chrisler's play 'Worse Than Tigers' is amusingly absurdist and patently symbolist yet on another level grittily real.

The ups and downs of show business are on full display with Westport Country Playhouse's hit production.

In the fifth year of Singapore's gay theme party "Nation," just as Pam Oei decides to let her hair down and shake her body with total abandon, the music abruptly stops – because in real life the government stopped the event in 2005. That scene said so much, despite Oei saying not much at all.