Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, receiving a slick and professional production at the American Conservatory Theater under Carey Perloff’s direction through Feb. 4, is a curious cultural artifact.

The intimate Germinal Stage Denver theater is a perfect venue for The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter’s claustrophobic puzzler of a play. On the stage, the furniture is almost insultingly nondescript — ...

In Edgewater, Chicago, City Lit Theater’s production of Harold Pinter’s 1957 The Birthday Party is frightening; immersive; and, above all, sophisticated. The Nobel Prize–winning Pinter—author of The ...

"You don't know, do you?" growls one of the characters in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party." Quite frankly, I don't, nor do many people who see Pinter's first major play -- or almost any play by ...

If you want to make concrete sense of The Birthday Party, the Steppenwolf Theater’s latest rendition of Harold Pinter’s dramaturgical classic, you might first look to its structure. Three acts neatly ...

Set in a seedy seaside boarding house, run by Meg (Zoë Wanamaker) and Petey (Peter Wight), the plot shows how Stanley (Toby Jones), an unwashed and washed up pianist, is visited by a sinister duo, ...