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It’s a romance, a comedy and a drama. It has swashbuckling, cross-dressing and acrobatics, a clarinet-playing mute and baddies straight out of “The Road Warrior.” There’s even an American roots band that looks like it wandered over from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” or maybe just Davis Square. By the time of its final glorious romantic tableau, it will be a rare theatergoer who’s not won over.

For someone who claims he never really liked theater, Gisli Örn Gardarsson certainly knows how to turn a rehearsal room into a fabulous playground. Actors hang upside down from high ropes, performing feats not meant for the acrophobic. The Icelandic director is here re-creating his production of “The Heart of Robin Hood” at the American Repertory Theater, and he has a mischievous glint in his eye as he talks about elves and circus tricks and his unlikely affection for a certain crashing chandelier.

Cranston gives a dazzling performance as LBJ in an action-packed new play about a seismic moment in American history

Bill Rauch graduated from Harvard University in 1984 and co-founded the Cornerstone Theater Company, which made a point of bringing theater to underserved places.

Why history? Why would a contemporary playwright turn to history as source material? Well, certainly there is a long tradition in the theater of doing so.

Brandon J. Dirden’s debut tomorrow night as Martin Luther King Jr. in the American Repertory Theater’s “All the Way” may be the biggest role of his career. And it’s one the 39-year-old stage actor almost didn’t make time for.

For award-winning director Bill Rauch ’84, returning to Harvard this summer was “emotional and wonderful.” 

The American Repertory Theater announced today that the run of “All The Way,” directed by Bill Rauch, is sold out. 

Michael McKean, who played the goofy greaser Lenny on “Laverne & Shirley,” and the British rocker David St. Hubbins in “This Is Spinal Tap,” started his career, as so many actors do, on the stage. 

Houston native and actor Brandon J. Dirden returns to Boston in the much-talked about drama All the Way, from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, which chronicles President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office in 1964. 

Mr. Cranston’s Johnson glitters with an almost salacious ruthlessness when he senses a chance to do a little arm-twisting to lock down another vote for a bill he wants passed.