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A Pilgrimage in India Timed by a Taxi Meter

The title characters in 'Three Travelers,” a comedy by Richard Abrons, aren’t lost, but the actors playing them seem to be.

Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe

Anyone who sees Edward Albee’s latest effort, which stars a riotous Tyne Daly as the existentially bewildered mother of identical twins, should expect to have verbal vertigo for at least 24 hours after the show.

So Quiet You Can Hear a Heart Stop

Emotional sincerity is the hallmark of this deeply felt revival, which stars S. Epatha Merkerson in a performance that stops the heart.

Arthur B. Kramer, Lawyer and Brother of Playwright Larry Kramer, Dies at 81

Mr. Kramer built a small New York law firm, intended as an alternative to the city’s white-shoe firms, into one with international reach.

And Blessed Are the Singing, Pole-Dancing Fetishists

'Jerry Springer: The Opera” uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.

Footnote

Richard Chamberlain and Jan Maxwell will play George and Martha when the Berkshire Theater Festival revives 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Travels With Hemingway: That’s Not All She Wrote

While 'The Maddening Truth” is fascinating as a character study, its weakness as a play is the paucity of dramatic conflict.

An Alienated Bunch Not Dealing With Loss

'Deathbed” is a coolly thoughtful and taut meditation by the stylish playwright Mark Schultz.

Awakening, Nightly, at 50

For the last few years, Kate Burton has been bouncing among stage, TV and film work. Now New York audiences will have multiple chances to see the belting side of her.