It's hard to say where Mark Twain leaves off and play adapter David Ives begins- but Is He Dead? has modern audiences rolling in the aisles

There's a germ of an original play in playwright Jordan Harrison's Doris to Darlene. Only it's buried in the same old same old.

David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face almost appears to be two separate plays. A funny first act backstage comedy morphs into a deadly serious second act all about politics and an international banking scandal.

There's surprising depth in these brief snapshots of every day life offered up by Will Eno

The plot of Conor McPherson's The Seafarer may center on a cardgame with the devil, but it's the tried and true Irish characters and some memorable performances that make the play a transporting experience.

The Constant Couple, a neglected George Farquhar gem, offers keen, catty observations on Restoration mores.

Who actually invented television? Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention tries to make sense of the David vs. Goliath backstory of that fateful discovery.

One of the Bard's less popular plays, Cymbeline is given a sumptuous, clean production under the artful direction of Mark Lamos.

Tracy Letts has written a doozy of a play-August: Osage County. This is a dark comedy about one large dysfunctional family. Attention must be paid.

Queens Boulevard (the musical) is a microcosmic Our Town -a couple's commitment to the institution of marriage is put to the test in playwright Charles Mee's work.