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  Theatre in Review: Send for the Million Men (HERE)
Send for the Million Men begins with a striking image of a young man playing catch with his father under rather unusual circumstances: He must toss the ball over a stone wall, where it is caught and thrown back; the two ...
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Theatre in Review: Rollo's Wild Oat (Metropolitan Playhouse)
With all the discussion about the dearth of women playwrights (on Broadway, anyway), the time is ripe to take another look at Claire Beecher Kummer. An altogether forgotten figure, she was a one-woman industry, grinding out light ...
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Theatre in Review: A Christmas Memory (Irish Repertory Theatre)
No theatre company likes to celebrate Christmas more than the Irish Rep, and, to the credit of one and all at this fine company, they don't repeat themselves. No hauling out of a certain Dickens war horse for them: Each season features a ...
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Theatre in Review: On the Other Side of the River (New Worlds Theatre Project/HERE)
New Worlds Theatre Project is devoted to reclaiming works from the Yiddish theatre and presenting them in English. It's a fascinating, laudable mission and if its stated goal -- "to see these plays produced on mainstream stages across the ...
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Theatre in Review: Lost Lake (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
There are more sensational entertainments in town right now, but if you want to experience the sheer pleasure of professionals at work, you could do a lot worse than Lost Lake. David Auburn's new play is just a slip of ...
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Theatre in Review: A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) (Signature Theatre/Field Day)
There's more than a particle of dread to be found late in Sam Shepard's new play, when Stephen Rea's Oedipus is at long last confronted with the truths that he has spent all evening denying. One of the oldest scenes in ...
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Theatre in Review: Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre)
Just about the last thing one expects to see in the theatre these days is a play about Marian visions. Nevertheless, the very brave Katori Hall takes on the true story of three young Rwandan girls who, in 1981, began to see ...
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Theatre in Review: Side Show (St. James Theatre)
They've given a face lift to Side Show, the 1997 musical now back on Broadway in a heavily revised version, but they might have given more attention to massaging this strange musical's beating heart. Side Show needed serious ...
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Theatre in Review: Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
You can say one thing for Pitbulls: It features a setting and characters rarely seen in theatre; then again, there may be a reason for that. The action unfolds in a small town near the Ohio River and, especially as rendered in An ...
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Theatre in Review: On a Stool at the End of the Bar (The Directors Company/59E59)
The first few minutes of Robert Callely's new play are purposely devoted to depicting the most banal picture of domestic life imaginable. We are in the kitchen of Tony DeMarco and his second wife, Christine, in Camden County, New ...
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Theatre in Review: Allegro (Classic Stage Company)
Among the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro is the ugly duckling, a promising original that never managed to shed its feathers and take flight. One of only two R&H shows not adapted from a novel, play, or film, ...
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Theatre in Review: Asymmetric (Ground Up Productions/59E59)
The term "too clever by half" could have been coined for Asymmetric, a spy drama that stretches one's credulity to the breaking point and keeps going. We are in an undisclosed location belonging to the CIA. Sunny, one of the agency' ...
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Theatre in Review: Major Barbara (The Pearl Theatre Company/Gingold Theatrical Group)
We live in an era of theatrical provocateurs, yet I submit that the most troubling production in town is the Pearl/Gingold revival of Major Barbara. George Bernard Shaw's parable of religion, poverty, and war ...
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Theatre in Review: Straight White Men (The Public Theater)
Okay, Public Theater, out with it: Where is Young Jean Lee and what have you done with her?
Clearly, she is being held hostage in an undisclosed location while an impostor is on the loose. The Young Jean Lee that we know and fear ...
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Theatre in Review: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II (Theatre for a New Audience/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
Drums pound, armies assemble, and blood comes raining down -- quite literally -- in Michael Boyd's staging of Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe's epic melodrama of conquest and revenge. It has been nearly 60 ...
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Theatre in Review: The River (Circle in the Square Theatre)
The producers of The River have asked that we not reveal anything about the last few minutes of The River. That's fine with me; it's the other 85 minutes I'm worried about.
Jez Butterworth's play is loaded ...
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Theatre in Review The Seagull/Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam Theatre/The Sheen Center)
Bedlam, the young company that won so much acclaim in 2012 and 2013 for its productions of St. Joan and Hamlet, is back, with a new two-play repertory; catching them for the first time, I can confirm that these talented ...
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Theatre in Review: Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons)
In Grand Concourse, the playwright Heidi Schreck seemingly assembles her characters as if pitching a sitcom pilot to one of the networks -- but hang on, for she has some real surprises in store, each of them ready to ...
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Theatre in Review: You Got Older (Page 73/HERE)
When it comes to identifying fresh new theatrical voices, Page 73 has one of the higher batting averages around and the winning streak continues with You Got Older. The premise of Clare Barron's comic drama -- an at ...
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Theatre in Review: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre)
In Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Terrence McNally places two troubled married couples in alien territory: Fire Island Pines. I was about to write the words "enemy territory," for it is 1990, the AIDS epidemic is raging, ...
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