Powerful for the way it looks at the moments between the actual action of the story, Sarah DeLappe’s play The Wolves follows a high school women’s indoor soccer team. Dropping in on their warm-up sessions before games, the play, from the Playwrights …Read more

Hot off a successful run in Montreal, the original cast recording of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz tells the fascinating story of an ambitious young man who would seemingly stop at nothing to achieve his dreams. Perhaps even more winding than i …Read more

“A man without land is nobody.” Such is the maxim, learned from his grandfather, that Duddy Kravitz (Ken James Stewart) uses to rule and guide his ambitions. Of course, to acquire the land, he first needs to acquire the money, and as his desperation …Read more

The holidays really are the most wonderful time of the year. The lights, the songs, the spirit, the general excuse to eat pie – it’s a magical time. For those of us who aren’t the best at coming up with great gifts, though, the weeks after Thanksgivi …Read more

With Sutton Foster at its center, the New Group’s revival of Sweet Charity melds the many emotions of a story about a big-hearted and naïve young girl trapped in a miserable reality. Set in the ’60s, Sweet Charity, as the title might imply, follows C …Read more

When we hear the name “Mozart,” we think, of course, of Wolfgang Amadeus, the composer whose music and life story remains so present in our modern culture. There was, however, another Mozart: his older sister, Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart. Also a musi …Read more

Feminist theory has a long and complicated history, one that playwright Gina Gionfriddo grapples with directly in her play Rapture, Blister, Burn. Gionfridd tackles the movement’s primary tenets and grapples with a complicated question: how can women …Read more

When we think of Shakespeare, we often think of his mastery of the English language, his undeniable brilliance with words. The Combative Theatre Co., however, takes a different approach, focusing on stage combat as a storytelling method. Presented by …Read more

Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home, a trio of one-act plays that tell the stories of three women who reminisce on the same hometown of Harrison. Set in Houston in the 1920s, the first scene follows Mabel (Hallie Foote) and her n …Read more

It’s not often that a romantic comedy picks a war as a setting, but MTC’s Vietgone does just that, setting the love story between Quang (Raymond Lee) and Tong (Jennifer Ikeda) in an Arizona refugee camp during the Vietnam War. Hilarious and powerful, …Read more