Though a couple of McDonagh's more recent plays are not set in Ireland, there remains something profoundly Irish about his sensibility and style.

Dirk Durossette's superb set has it all, as well as a pickax hanging from the ceiling beams. There's even a graveyard that seems to be swallowing up home and hearth, which pretty much says it all.

For more than a decade, off-Broadway musicals about musicals have been practically a genre.

Expect that this Annie will do a bang-up business with families — and, of course, the Sykes factor will draw curious adults.

The community of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya may not be ancient — Astrov is only 40, and Vanya himself is 50 — but they're obsessed with endings.

Theater that is deliberately camp is never as effective as the camp latent in theater that was intended to be taken seriously.

What is it about the word "Brechtian" that makes me want to reach for a gun?

David Mamet, who not long ago was America's angriest young playwright, is now 62.

It's a small miracle that Kander and Ebb's Curtains ever made it to Broadway.