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  Theatre in Review: The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
In The Oldest Boy, Celia Keenan-Bolger plays a nice, ordinary woman who answers the doorbell and finds a pair of Buddhist monks on her doorstep. As it happens, they believe that her three-year-old son is the ...
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Theatre in Review: The Real Thing (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
Several reviews of the current revival of The Real Thing have suggested that Sam Gold's production manhandles a modern classic. I'd like to suggest an alternate version: It is a middling production of a play that may ...
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Theatre in Review: Sticks and Bones (The New Group/Pershing Square Signature Center)
Sticks and Bones is a political cartoon that elicits not laughter but a death rattle. In his savage portrayal of the denial that many Americans felt regarding the Vietnam War, the playwright David Rabe scored a direct ...
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Theatre in Review: Barb Jungr: Hard Rain (59E59)
Barb Jungr doesn't interpret songs; she moves in, takes possession, and thoroughly renovates them, somehow making them into deeply personal statements without betraying their original intent. In her new program, Hard Rain
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Theatre in Review: Disgraced (Lyceum Theatre)
Amir Kapoor has it made. A litigator specializing in mergers and acquisitions, he works for a leading financial firm. He lives in a cavernous East Side penthouse with his beautiful and talented wife, Emily, a painter. You can say he is the ...
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Theatre in Review: Pool (No Water) (OYL Theater Company/Barrow Street Theatre)
The good news about Pool (No Water) is that it's an opportunity to catch up with the clearly gifted members of OYL Theater Company. The acronym in their name stands for "one year lease," but something tells me they're going ...
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Theatre in Review: Lift (59E59)
Walter Mosley is one of the finest crime novelists writing in America today; if you have never picked up his Easy Rawlins series, I advise you to do so immediately. In fact, the term "crime novelist" is something of a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Belle of Amherst (Westside Theatre)
Theatre in Review: The Belle of Amherst (Westside Theatre) The Belle of Amherst was one of the great triumphs of Julie Harris' career and I'm sorry that she ever did it. William Luce's piece about Emily Dickinson ...
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Theatre in Review: Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Public Theater)
Earlier in her career, it seemed as if the Civil War had permanently lodged itself in the imagination of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. (You could argue that the same is true of us all, a point with which Parks might well agree.) In
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Theatre in Review: The Last Ship (Neil Simon Theatre)
A way of life comes to an end, but not before one last valedictory gesture must be made in The Last Ship. Cutting against the grain of most recent Broadway musicals, with their thick veneer of glitter and their wiseacre's ...
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Theatre in Review: Generations (Soho Rep)
The playwright Debbie Tucker Green isn't merely satisfied with creating a new work; she makes a world in which to contain it. Her last play seen at Soho Rep, Born Bad, explores a family situation where something terrible has ...
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Theatre in Review: On the Town (Lyric Theatre)
It still is a helluva town, after all.
I confess I had grave fears about the new On the Town at the Lyric. For one thing, despite its classic status, it has never been successfully revived. George C. Wolfe's 1998 staging ...
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Theatre in Review: The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater)
The title of The Fortress of Solitude, an allusion to Superman's North Pole hideaway, is an appropriate choice for a story about adolescents whose perceptions are profoundly shaped by comic books. But more than once the other ...
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Theatre in Review: Found (Atlantic Theater Company)
For two thirds of its running time, Found is a real find, hunting down laughter and surprising warmth in the unlikeliest of places before landing in the trap of formulaic plotting and musical theatre clichés. The show is ...
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Theatre in Review: James Dickey's Deliverance (Godlight Theatre Company/59E59)
Deliverance, the play: Sounds like a joke, right? If you've ever read James Dickey's harrowing 1970 novel or the stomach-churning 1972 film adaptation, you will rightfully wonder what the theatre can bring to this ...
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Theatre in Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time sets out to do what the theatre has no business doing, and does it brilliantly. Theatre is, by its very nature, omniscient; yes, many plays feature narrators with their own ...
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Theatre in Review: Jacuzzi (The Debate Society/Ars Nova)
Come on in; the water's fine -- but be careful to whom you spill your guts in Jacuzzi, a nifty black comedy/psychological thriller designed to keep you on pins and needles for the entirety of its 100-minute running time. ...
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Theatre in Review: It's Only a Play (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
Theatre in Review: It's Only a Play (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) Lorne Michaels once observed that comedy is really a form of complaining, a notion borne out - fully and hilariously - in It's Only a Play, Terrence McNally
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Theatre in Review: While I Yet Live (Primary Stages/The Duke on 42nd Street)
As a star of Broadway musicals, Billy Porter is at the head of his class. As a playwright, however, I'm afraid he's in need of a little remedial instruction. The premise of his initial effort, While I Yet Live -- a ...
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Theatre in Review: Port Authority (Irish Repertory Theatre)
"I don't know if I'm happy or sad," says Joe, one of the trio of lost souls who make up the cast of Port Authority. He could be speaking for all of them. The lovelorn Kevin; terrified, alcoholic Dermot; and the elderly Joe all have stories ...
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