First things first: Gilda Radner and Alan Zweibel were never an “item.” He was a writer for Saturday Night Live, she was one of the show’s breakout comic stars during its initial flush of success in the late 1970s.

Shel Silverstein’s children’s books have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million copies. The most popular of these, the touching narrative The Giving Tree and the poetry collection Where the Sidewalk Ends, remain core components of many a childhood reading library.

From the halls of Scandinavia, Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece, Eve Butler’s epic tale began.

A lot has changed for the Performing Arts Collective of Savannah since last year’s inaugural performance of Langston Hughes’ Christmas play Black Nativity.

J.B. Murray was called, by a higher power, to do something totally outside his sphere of understanding. And so, in a way, was Mary Padgelek.

Gentle, magically quirky and subversively funny, John Cariani's Almost, Maine is currently the most-produced play among school and community theater groups in the country.

I'm generally not a fan of updating Shakespeare plays to any other era than what the Bard intended. If I have to see one more precious version featuring a duel in which two guys in sportcoats pull down swords from over the fireplace of a hunting lodge or whatever, I'll have to hack somebody up with a sword myself.

November's first theater productions, both opening this weekend, are entirely dissimilar in all respects but one: They both have to do with monsters.

The subtitle for The Drowsy Chaperone is A Musical Within a Comedy. That’s pretty self–explanatory – once you know what you’re getting into, you can sit back and let it wash over you.

Sixteen years ago, Christopher Blair directed a local production of The Rocky Horror Show. “And I swore I’d never do it again,” he laughs.

Although he’s best known for the Pulitzer–nominated A Walk in the Woods, Lee Blessing is one of the most prolific playwrights of the last three decades. Three of his shows have been on Time magazine’s list of the year’s best.

One Marine, one story. It’s likely that Fallujah Good, Benjamin Mathes’ one–man play about the American presence in Iraq from 2003-2004, is the story of every soldier who lived to tell about it. Poignant, sad and (at times) uncomfortably brutal, Fallujah Good was taken, word–for–word, from the correspondence and journals of the writer’s brother, Capt. Adam Mathes. Adam’s letters home, Benjamin Mathes says, weren’t full of “your everyday kind of ‘Hey, I’m fine’ stuff. It ...

ALTHOUGH IT HAS possibly the worst title of any play, ever, Dr. Horrible’s Sing–along Blog is amusing, poignant and has a score of some really wonderful songs.

More than virtually any other work of theatre in this young millennium, Angels in America has become a real cultural presence.

On Oct. 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and tortured in a rural area of Laramie. He died in a hospital five days later, never having regained consciousness.