Deborah Klugman

In Head of Passes, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney strives to create a narrative of epic proportion, with only moderate success. Directed by Tina Landau at the Mark Taper Forum, the play still is worth seeing for the questions it poses, the finely tuned ensemble and the lead performance by Phylicia......

Big Night is one of those stage comedies that tries to tackle big themes but trips on the very glibness it purports to satirize. Written by Paul Rudnick and unimaginatively directed by Walter Bobbie, it's set in a glitzy hotel suite before and after an Oscars ceremony. Mike (Brian Hutchison),......

When Hamilton was performed for the Obamas in 2016, Michelle Obama is said to have called it “the best piece of art in any form that I have ever seen in my life.” Did she overstate things? Now that I’ve seen the show (for the first time), I don’t think......

In Byron Lane’s shtick-filled comedy at Celebration Theatre, a flamboyant figure claiming to be actress Tilda Swinton (Tom Lenk) shows up on the doorstep of a suicidal man named Walt (Lane) and inspires him to accept himself and get on with his life. “Tilda Swinton” is a curious name to......

The many pleasures of King of the Yees, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody at the Mark Taper Forum, emerge not from playwright Lauren Yee’s rambling unfocused script but from the abundant talents of its versatile ensemble and the production’s colorful staging. An import from the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Yee’s......

British playwright Simon Stephens' Heisenberg tracks the ups and downs in the relationship of an American woman in her 40s and an Irishman in his 70s. First produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2015 and later remounted on Broadway, the play shares its appellation with physicist and 1932 Nobel......

Dogfight is one of those period pieces that makes the good old days appear not so good after all — kind of like the musical itself....

Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs is set in colonial Africa sometime in the mid–20th century, and while much has changed since then, the play’s moral dilemmas and the racism and hypocrisy that give rise to them remain with us. Writing on her deathbed, Hansberry dedicated her play to Angela Davis, George......