Theater

PREVIEW: This Is The Week That Is Laughs at Our Crazy World

The 1812 Productions’ team on how and why they make funny in the Age of Trump.

Philly’s love affair with this superb actor has never been more heartfelt.

Director Alexander Burns’ sometimes imaginative rethinking cannot redeem Lionel Bart’s awful musical.

This glossy but glib production is enjoyable but adds little of substance to Ibsen’s original.

This frantic, antic production doesn’t illuminate Anne Washburn’s poignant satire.

Yet Kenneth Lonergan’s often powerful play seems oblivious to its own sense of privilege.

Not one of these wan, trivial one-acts proves worth producing.

But director Austin Pendleton’s production too often makes this world grotesque.

If you were hoping for some new insight into this fascinating chapter of theater history, ‘tis not to be.

Trafalgar’s enjoyable filmed stage production preserves a star turn that should be seen.