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  Theatre in Review: House of McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards)
House of McQueen is, in many ways, a beautifully designed production, evoking the glamour and tumult of its title character's life and times: Jason Ardizzone-West's sleek minimalist box set serves as a canvas for Br ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Government (59E59)
Talk about ripped from the headlines: It's another hot summer Monday in Washington, and in the office of Congressman Bochman, a staff assistant and two interns are wrapping up a busy day of collecting press clippings and logging phone ...
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Theatre in Review: The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Brotherly love functions as an embrace and a manacle in The Brothers Size. This wrenching tale, part of the trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays (last seen in New York at the Public Theater in 2009), centers on a triangle ...
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Theatre in Review: The Whole of Time (A/Park Productions at The Brick)
The Glass Menagerie is a kind of cat's-cradle, designed to ensnare its four characters in an inextricable web of responsibilities and resentments. Not for nothing is Tennessee Williams' alternate, one-act version of his ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles: A Public Works Concert Experience (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
Following the gala reopening of the Delacorte Theatre with a festive Twelfth Night, the Public Theater takes us to church, and what a glorious, roof-rattling service it is. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which William ...
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Theatre in Review: Twelfth Night (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theater)
To celebrate the return of the Delacorte Theater after its top-to-bottom renovation, the New York Shakespeare Festival is throwing a party. It's a chic bash, complete with a cheeky set design, an onstage string quartet, contemporary ...
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Theatre in Review: Sulfur Bottom (Jerry Orbach Theatre)
The dead speak in Sulfur Bottom; indeed, so voluble are they, the living struggle to get a word in edgewise. That the play's characters incessantly return from the grave, loaded with exposition to impart, does little to aid ...
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Theatre in Review: Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander Theatre)
Insult comics aren't born; they're made. That's the takeaway from the latest entry in this summer's parade of solo comedy shows. You might not know who Jeff Ross is -- before last week, I certainly didn't -- but his bona fides as "Th ...
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Theatre in Review: Lili/Darwin (The Tank)
Lili/Darwin is a solo piece about two women: Lili is Lili Ilse Elvenes, aka Lili Elbe, a Danish painter and one of the first subjects of gender reassignment surgery. This was in 1930, and, as you can imagine, her story is ...
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Theatre in Review: Well, I'll Let You Go (The Space at Irondale)
We may now classify Bubba Weiler as a double threat. The actor, who often works in Chicago theatres, earned plenty of attention and a Drama Desk Award nomination as a troubled, substance-abusing Midwesterner in the Off-Broadway ...
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Theatre in Review: AVA: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage II)
As an actress, Elizabeth McGovern has plenty going for her; as a playwright, she is much too generous. Really, she ought to hog the stage a little more.
Having cast herself as the legendary screen siren Ava Gardner, McGovern has ...
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Theatre in Review: Can I Be Frank? (Soho Playhouse)
Three shows jostle for your attention in Can I Be Frank?, and they often threaten to crowd each other out. Whenever Morgan Bassichis is busy commenting caustically on their life and career, the results are delightful. ...
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Theatre in Review: Gene and Gilda (Penguin Rep Theatre at 59E59)
Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were two of the most indelible, outsized comic personalities of the 1970s -- he an explosive bundle of nerves that made him a star in the Mel Brooks universe, and she a deadly accurate sketch comedy ...
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Theatre in Review: Ginger Twinsies (Orpheum Theatre)
Am I glad I did my homework: The Parent Trap, the 1961 version with Hayley Mills, was probably the first film I ever caught in a theatre. (It was either that or The Guns of Navarone, and now you have my childhood in a ...
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Theatre in Review: Rolling Thunder (New World Stages)
The thunder is muted in this new attraction at New World Stages. On paper, I suppose, it must have seemed a likely proposition. After all, no less an authority than the US military newspaper Stars and Stripes called the Vietnam ...
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Theatre in Review: ta-da! (Greenwich House Theatre)
The new show at the Greenwich House has a cast of one, but it's the story of a close, even tortured, relationship -- between a man and his screen. "Standup is bullshit," Josh Sharp announces, sweepingly dismissing the epidemic of ...
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Theatre in Review: Joy (Laura Pels Theatre)
Betsy Wolfe could sell snow to the Inuit. She can charm the birds from the trees. Her singing makes strong men weep. I resort to such cliches because she is the riveting still center of Joy, a musical exercise in ...
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Theatre in Review: Polishing Shakespeare (59E59)
Brian Dykstra's cockeyed, often hilariously cankered view of the American theatre, begins with a modest proposal. Janet, a young playwright, is summoned to a not-for-profit theatre company where the artistic director, Ms. Branch, ...
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Theatre in Review: Berlindia! (The Tank)
In this odd little comic anxiety dream, everything is slip-sliding away, leaving the characters stuck on constantly shifting ground. In one case, they even crash-land onto it, but that's only to be expected in the faintly treacherous ...
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Theatre in Review: Memnon (Classical Theatre of Harlem)
The playwright Will Power has sometimes drawn on classical material in works like The Seven, based on Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, and Seize the King, a contemporary riff on Richard III. In Memno ...
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