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This highly entertaining evening of Mr. Finn's music is really good, with long stretches of brilliance.

While the 10th annual Fringe Festival featured a few understated, emotionally rich plays, theater created on the fly led to some dependably messy shows.

In Scotland, a festival of works ranging from topical to pointless, from hilarious to dismal.

Acted with absorbing restraint and immediacy, this is a truly life-sized production, which means it is big indeed.

An old actor climbs out of an old trunk, and suddenly it’s springtime in the revival — no, I think I mean resuscitation — of "The Fantasticks."

About once a year, Daniel MacIvor writes an ingeniously constructed and teasingly mysterious new play. So how come you’ve probably never heard of him?

Eli Broad has donated $186,000 to pay for cleaning, restoration, archiving and a permanent display for a trove of relics.

Reverend Billy may not convert you. But you will think twice about shopping, once the show is over.

If you want to watch a human being lift a 12-ton play onto her shoulders and hold it there for hours, see Meryl Streep burning energy like a supernova in "Mother Courage and Her Children."

“Mr. Dooley’s America” has no plot per se, but its topics are loosely organized to move from the sociopolitical to the personal.

These two Norweigian plays, Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" and Jon Fosse's "Deathvariations," could not be more different in depth and tone.

A tattered muslin coat may not seem fit for a king, but in this case it’s just a fitting.

Why do some of Broadway's biggest hits have such a hard time when they hit the road?

Waiting in line for tickets to Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” starring Meryl Streep, often begins the night before a performance.

Goodspeed’s polished new production of the 1972 musical "Pippin" is a handsome production.

Billy is a different kind of mime: his wordless routines leave his audience speechless.

Watching Usher glide around the stage in rehearsal for the Broadway musical "Chicago," you have to admit he’s got those Fosse poses down.

This eager and amiably scattershot satire of celebrity memoirs and Broadway musicals arrives a little late to the table for such parody to taste fresh.

THEATER.

An Obie Award-winning director and a pioneer of biographical theater, Mr. Sacharow was perhaps best known for his 1967 play “The Concept.”