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Review - After The Revolution: The Life Of The Party

November 13, 2010

Sure, in America the guilty have just as much a right to a fair trial as the innocent.

Review - Drat! The Cat!: Steal With Style

November 12, 2010

While Ira Levin will forever be remembered as the novelist who made the phrases 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives' indelible entries into American pop culture, devotees of musical theatre fondly regard him as the bookwriter/lyricist for one of Broadway's more intriguing flops, 1965's Drat! The C

Review - Middletown: Our Postmodern Town

November 10, 2010

Our Postmodern Town might be a more descriptive title for Will Eno's Middletown, a play that coats the Thornton Wilder standard of normal American life as it pertains to the cycle of life and death with a whitewash of Samuel Beckett absurdity.

Review - In The Wake: Ten Years In The Making

November 5, 2010

Early on in Lisa Kron's politically-charged romantic comedy/drama, In The Wake, audiences are reminded of a scene that traditionally takes place in many American households every fourth Thursday of November.

Review - Mrs. Warren's Profession: The Life

October 31, 2010

Three quarters of a century before a Frank Rich review had the power to close a Broadway show on opening night, New York City Police Commissioner William McAdoo accomplished the same feat with his pan of the 1905 American premiere of George Bernard Shaw's, Mrs.

Review - Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage: It says here...

October 27, 2010

Abigail Grotke.

Review - Wings: Flight Recovery

October 25, 2010

Perhaps not content with merely being the best comic actress on the New York stage, Jan Maxwell follows her hilarious turns in last season's revivals of The Royal Family and Lend Me A Tenor by refreshing her dramatic chops a with a riveting, edge of your seat performance in John Doyle's senses-tingl

Review - Broadway Originals: Matinee Ladies

October 24, 2010

'Let's see if we can do this without a microphone,' peeped Jo Sullivan Loesser, as she prepared to fill the 1,495-seat Town Hall with 'Somebody, Somewhere,' which she introduced in the 1956 original Broadway production of The Most Happy Fella.

Review - The Pitmen Painters: Don't Quit Your Day Job

October 17, 2010

As Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, inspired by the true story of a collection of miners who art history books now refer to as The Ashington Group, commences, the title characters are quite figuratively blank canvases.

Review - Brief Encounter: I'll See You Again?

October 14, 2010

For decades, the great and not-so-great vocal artists of cabarets and nightclubs have put their own personal spins on the songs of the sumptuous Noel Coward catalogue; changing a tempo here, adjusting a rhythm there.

Review - The Human Scale: I Am A Camera

October 12, 2010

They say we've become a society anesthetized from violent images since the days when graphic television news footage from Vietnam helped spark the largest anti-war movement this country had seen up until that time.

Review - Gatz: Every. Single. Word.

October 9, 2010

When asked how she kept her voice strong and healthy week after week while starring on Broadway, Ethel Merman famously quipped, 'You have to live like a f***ing nun!' If that's the case then I suppose Scott Shepherd should be up for sainthood any day now.

Review - In Transit: Life Is Like A Train

October 7, 2010

Though set designer Anna Louizos supplies a realistically grimy subway platform for Primary Stages' mounting of the new a cappella musical In Transit, the characters scurrying underground are disappointingly squeaky clean.

Review - The Sneeze: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

October 3, 2010

It's always a good sign when you walk into a theatre for a comedy and right away the set is making you laugh.

Review - Hairspray: Arrangement In Black And White

September 30, 2010

Castro's invading, integration is the new frontier and you have to be much larger than a size 6 to be considered plus-size.

Review - Alphabetical Order: Keeping Up Appearances

September 28, 2010

Michael Frayn's 1975 comedy, Alphabetical Order, is the type of play that, either as a compliment or as a dismissal, American audiences are likely to label as 'very British.

Review - Orlando: She Enjoyed Being A Boy

September 25, 2010

While Sarah Ruhl and director Rebecca Taichman haven't exactly made children's theatre out of Virginia Woolf's transgendering 1928 novel, Orlando (unless you approve of full adult nudity in your kiddie matinees), there are generous doses of playful whimsy in this well-mounted CSC production; though

Review - The Little Foxes: A Little Family Business

September 23, 2010

Perhaps it's a sign of economic hardship continuing to plague Off-Broadway that not one drop of V-8 Vegetable Juice Cocktail is poured over the leading lady's head, nor is even one slice of watermelon smacked onto an actor's skull in Ivo van Hove's deliciously stark and chilly interpretation of Lill

Review - Penny Penniworth: Twisted Dickens

September 17, 2010

I suppose it's about time someone came up with a name for that genre of plays where a handful of actors each impersonate a varied assortment of characters to tell a sprawling story, i.

Review - Me, Myself & I: George and Martha Retire to Absurdia

September 13, 2010

There's a strong essence of familiarity to be whiffed at Edward Albee's latest, Me, Myself & I, especially if you have fond memories of his far superior absurdist effort, The Play About The Baby.

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