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More than any other actor of his time, the late Sir Alec Guinness was able to play diverse, even antithetical roles with uncommon skill and grace.

Rob Ackerman's acidly funny "Tabletop" is spot-on about the making of a TV commercial

Bill C. Davis's "Avow" is unlikely to enjoy mass appeal.

"Spinning into Butter" speaks smartly about racism and political correctness on campus.

In "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Nathan Lane hits his old stride.

"Brothers and Sisters," a doughy, six-hour adaptation of a Russian trilogy, makes you feel like you're reliving history moment by moment -- literally.

Staged by the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, "The Winter's Tale" is a bleak, slushy production that will leave you cold.

From Broadway's womb Kelsey Grammer's 'Macbeth' was (not so) untimely ripped; the RSC, meanwhile, offered Antony Sher's more cunning version.