Five minutes of lively percussion music (Mandisi Dyantyis) opens the play. This pulsating music is a constant throughout, ...

Described by Bertolt Brecht as a “gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all,” THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ...

Arturo Ui” imagines a Chicago overtaken by a brutal, if dim-witted, gangster, whose gradual rise to power eerily mirrors Hitler’s own rise in 1930s Germany.

Her “Pirate Jenny,” from “The Threepenny Opera,” and a marching song, in German, from “Mother Courage,” in which her whole body moves in rhythm as she stares at the audience, are as exciting as ...

For King, for Queen, or for country? No matter the reason, innocent civilians have forever been pawns in the battles of ...

Director and choreographer David Gordon said he put away his dance/theater piece “Uncivil Wars” and “waited for the world to change.” Unfortunately, it didn’t. So the production, which started out as ...

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