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Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

In director Jenny Sullivan's impeccably staged revival for Santa Barbara's Ensemble Theatre Company, Zimbalist is at the top of her game, spanning 45 years to convincingly depict Hepburn engaging us over aftern…

You may not find them on the bestseller lists of most music stores, but these eight discs of show tunes make ideal gifts for the theatre lover in your life, writes Richard Ouzounian

It's especially fitting that Literally Alive Children's Theater, which adapts its material from literary sources, has filled its "Christmas Carol" with young faces.

An original, beautifully staged take on a much told tale

David Mamet's new play, "Race," features a stellar cast portraying characters charged with manic energy and caught in a struggle for power. It's all a bit too familiar.

I was rather underwhelmed by the new cast of "God of Carnage," as you can see in today's review.

"One Evening" is an ominous and imaginative, if not entirely effective, musical drama that explores the impact of Schubert's work on the writings of Samuel Beckett.

Almost every line of "Do Not Go Gentle" is so lovely that when the whole proves to be less than the sum of its parts, the result doesn't feel as disappointing as it otherwise might.

Austin McCormick's "The Judgment of Paris" is the perfect antidote to all that stark minimalism too often equated with aesthetic sophistication on Manhattan's downtown arts scene.

The Living Theatre's production of Anne Waldman's play is primarily an exercise in audience participation.

Judith Malina and poet-playwright Anne Waldman fail to ignite the anarchist revolution, but they sure give audiences a good time.

Short play collections are always a mixed bag, but rarely are they as mixed as the Flea Theater's "The Great Recession."

Six of theater's hippest playwrights pen thematically linked plays in this hit-or-miss evening.

The Flea Theater offers plenty of volume with six plays and a cast of more than 50. But the biggest bargain is seeing the young cast of Bats.

As an exhibition of low comedy, the show is notable for the cunning design and exhilarating execution of double entendres and vulgar sight gags. But it's thin gruel for more refined theatrical palates.

Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's comedy is bewilderingly tedious.

One of Shakespeare's most entertaining comedies is given a laugh-a-minute styling, though nearly at the risk of overwhelming the play's not-so-funny message.

The Shakespeare's Globe production of "Love's Labour's Lost" reveals that this word-infatuated frolic may well be the first and best example of a college comedy.

The largely admirable new musical based on cartoonist Charles Addams's creations has a lot going for it, most notably director-designers McDermott and Crouch's intimate understanding of Addams's aesthetic and a…

Slickly and grandly designed, completely accessible, consistently amusing and in its own way a genuine tribute to old-fashioned Broadway musical entertainment, this tuner loves the use of a spotlight, shining i…

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Tom Ford discuss the making of the new film A Single Man.

A roll call of Second City alumni reads like a who's who of comedy. Joanne Kaufman looks at how the Chicago improv company produced such a stellar cast of comedians.

For "In the Heights," Lin-Manuel Miranda found inspiration in his boyhood neighborhood.

A mere 54 words, expressing the simple yearning for happier times. Roy J. Harris Jr. explains why Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" endures.

Photos of alternative holiday shows in New York.

Beloved sacred and secular holiday stories are being bisected, dissected and disrespected all over town.

Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of "August: Osage County" and "Superior Donuts," has a lesser-known role: actor.

Hugh Panaro transforms into FAGIN at OLIVER at Walnut Street Theatre, and walks us through the process. The funny Rob McClure joins in. It's funny and interesting stuff, and you'll learn how to blacken and turn…

The acting methodology developed by Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and epitomized by Marlon Brando has been replaced by an acting style more like that of Cary Grant or Bob Hope.

The actors tapped to stand by for stars like Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on Broadway rarely get a chance to fill in.

Theaters across the pond consider making a bigger splash in D.C.