Robert Lepage

For the next four nights, the legendary Macbeth, long-deceased high king of Scotland, will stride about Woolly Mammoth Theatre's stage with Homer Simpson and Barack Obama. MacHomer, the 70-minute solo show that Rick Miller, a Canadian actor, has been...

The public has spoken. Opera lovers nationwide turned out in massive numbers for last season's high-def simulcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. So the world-famous opera company is presenting a new season of simulcasts and encores from...

It's rather ironic that this production is presented by a new Off-Off-Broadway company titled The Real Theater Company. Why? Because this is an eerily authentic, if not totally successful, revival of "Hair." The singing is bad. The acting is amateurish....

2½ stars (out of four) The Quebecois theater artist Robert Lepage, whose best stage work casts a visually seductive spell, first presented "La Face Cachee de la Lune" (" Far Side of the Moon") in 2000 as a solo piece. The writer-director showed himself...

Friday October 27, 2000      Denys Arcand's "Stardom" traces the arc of a beautiful small-town Canadian woman from hockey player to world-famous fashion model and beyond. The trouble is that French Canadian Arcand, whose memorable "The Decline of the...

MILWAUKEE—"Work Song," the exhilarating new drama at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, had its origins 11 years ago when rising Chicago playwright Scott McPherson suggested to up-and-coming Chicago director Eric Simonson that they work on a play about the...