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Liv Ullmann brings a northern severity to A Streetcar Named Desire.

Fela! can get even a staid Broadway audience shaking its hips. Plus: Kenneth Lonergan’s midlife crisis.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is pure pleasure. Plus: The strains of Ragtime.

Sometimes a veneer of professionalism is the only thing masking all-out panic. Julie White, in The Understudy, gives us both at once.

Willem Dafoe returns to the stage in Idiot Savant—and it’s a blast. (So what if it doesn’t make sense?)

You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.

The first-ever Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow is one hot plate of crazy. In a good way.

The revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs tries to transcend its tummler underpinnings.

Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller heat up the icy After Miss Julie. Plus: The Memphis blues.

In Oleanna, Julia Stiles transcends David Mamet's agitprop script; in The Royal Family, Rosemary Harris is just transcendent. Plus: Ann Landers, a woman who really knew her audience.