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“I am not an émigré, I am an exile,” playwright Bertolt Brecht insisted, and he proved his point by returning...

The upper-class voice of Lillian Hellman rings across the elegantly furnished living room of a summer hotel on the Gulf Coast. She’s not...

Everybody loves Therese Marie, the sweet little old lady who is “The Little Flower of East Orange.” So how come...

“War,” according to its hype, is a feisty comedy about war, but it’s no “M*A*S*H.” And it isn’t about war....

There are certain witches that everyone remembers. The trio in “Macbeth" brewed toil and trouble in a steaming cauldron. Elizabeth...

Imagine being stranded with a broken leg on the narrow ledge of a 600-foot ice wall, in minus 50-degree weather,...

Cecil B. DeMille once waited five months for his peacocks to shed so that Edith Head could use their feathers...

Barney Cashman is frumpy, lumpy, and awkward with women. And so is John Combs, the actor who plays him in...

Becky sells expensive cars. Her husband Joe is a roofer. They have been married for 28 years. Their 26-year-old son...

“Neighbors,” a play now having its West Coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre, is an angry, nasty, hateful, and thoroughly...