…that is carefully orchestrated, occasionally edgy and often joyous. In seven years, the group has elaborated a collaborative process they clearly enjoy, and that yields startling results. In December, I met with Collins, co-director Steve…

…identity as we safely understand it,” while offering the bonus of live piano and early Bruce Springsteen. If you were to judge Kempson’s plays solely by their titles, the newest—the in-progress Fondly, Collette Richland—might seem…

…wearing a dreadfully dead-looking toupee), the counsel for the plaintiff loose-limbed as a disco dancer and condescending as a, well, as a Harvard-trained lawyer (and wearing an exceptionally silly curly gray wig). You also see…

…rebellion. Eventually, a character does wind up completely nude and fully exposed to the audience, but perhaps not in the expected manner. The 80-minute show is certainly fast and funny, but, like the type of…

…if it means anything, means just that”-he pauses questioningly, even a bit stupidly, as a character in a Judd Apatow movie might. But what could have been a tiresome gimmick achieves, in the course of…

…William Faulkner’s language and the feel of the story intact. Extracting the notoriously difficult first chapter, “April Seventh, 1928,” of Faulkner’s masterpiece as the script—a meandering, stream-of-conscious section narrated by the mentally disabled Benjy Compson,…

…Williams) do the seemingly impossible: They make the Rehnquist Court feel as intellectually rigorous as The Muppet Show. (And I mean that flatteringly, with respect to The Muppet Show.) ERS unpacks a text the way…

…sprawling but surreally symmetrical production dares to try to capture onstage one of the most dizzyingly subjective points of view ever committed to print. For the narrator here is a man with the mind of…

…strong American flavor — and an hour break, the audience is a bit thinner, and also partly swapped: to alleviate the daunting effect of the show’s duration, “Gatz” has been divided into two parts, with…

…Trevor Nunn and the Royal Shakespeare Company, ‘Nickleby’ featured 49 speaking roles and an eight-hour running time. Critically and commercially an enormous hit, the production rebuked the shrinking scale of contemporary commercial theater. Around the…