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  Theatre in Review: The Undeniable Sound of Right Now (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Women's Project)
You can't be a rock rebel forever, nor can you live on the cutting edge without sooner or later falling off. These inarguable propositions are explored with wit and perception in Laura Eason's new play. Such thoughts are plaguing ...
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Theatre in Review: Music Hall (TUTA Theatre Chicago/59E59)
In Music Hall, three male performers recall their lives on the road with a diva known simply as The Artiste. One of them stands in for The Artiste -- or maybe he has been The Artiste all along; I was never sure. Is the actor < ...
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Theatre in Review: The Heidi Chronicles (Music Box Theatre)
It has been more than a quarter of a century since we first made the acquaintance of Heidi Holland, art historian, essayist, and symbol of a generation -- and, like every other Baby Boomer, she's not getting any younger. You could say the ...
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Theatre in Review: Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova Theatre)
Bess Wohl certainly is one intrepid playwright: in Small Mouth Sounds, she assembles six rather woebegone spiritual seekers at a Buddhist retreat house where the teacher -- an offstage voice piped in through the sound ...
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Theatre in Review: Posterity (Atlantic Theater)
Is an artist's career, no matter how celebrated, necessarily built on sand? In a life devoted to the creation of art, does the verdict of history matter? These are the questions nagging at the characters in Posterity. ...
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Theatre in Review: On the Twentieth Century (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
All aboard at the Roundabout: The Twentieth Century Limited is once again leaving the station, booked with a full complement of chiselers, con artists, monomaniacs, and other forms of show folk. Inside a gleaming art deco train racing from ...
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Theatre in Review: Lonesome Traveler (59E59)
Lonesome Traveler offers a bountiful examination of folk music in its years of mainstream popularity, beginning in the late 1920s, when folklorists began recording and preserving the music of Appalachian Mountain dwellers, through ...
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Theatre in Review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paper Mill Playhouse)
Two red-hot lead performances and a roof-rattling score are the marquee items of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a thundering musical melodrama drawn from Victor Hugo's novel. Michael Arden, usually cast in more ...
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Theatre in Review: Placebo (Playwrights Horizons)
The title of Melissa James Gibson's play refers to a trial for Resurgo, a new pill designed to promote female sexual desire. It is not, we are told, a distaff version of Viagra, which is only about "penile mechanics;" Resurgo "aims ...
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Theatre in Review: The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre Company)
In The Liquid Plain, Naomi Wallace has constructed a tale of in which the repercussions of crimes caused by slavery are felt across several decades. The narrative includes incidents of rape, escape on the high seas, ...
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Theatre in Review: C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar) (59E59)
Today's math problem involves fractions: C.O.A.L. is a one-person show for four actors: Explain.
It's pretty simple, even to those who, like me, are numbers-challenged: C.O.A.L. has one narrator, but the text is ...
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Theatre in Review: Josephine and I (The Public Theater/Joe's Pub)
Cush Jumbo, we hardly knew you. The British actress made a perfectly solid Broadway debut a couple of months ago in Jez Butterworth's puzzle play The River. But clearly that studiedly enigmatic work didn't make use of even ...
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Theatre in Review: Long Story Short (Prospect Theater Company)
A short piece about a long marriage, Long Story Short offers one set, two people, and 50 years of events. As Charles, the hero, sings, "Don't you wish we could skip the in-between stuff/All the boring everyday routine ...
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Theatre in Review: Fish in the Dark (Cort Theatre)
I feel the need to make a clarification. A couple of reviewers have expressed, with some disappointment, that, with Fish in the Dark, Larry David, a revered comedy pioneer thanks to Seinfeld and Curb Your ...
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Theatre in Review: The Mystery of Love and Sex (Lincoln Center Theater)
At any given moment, you may think you know the people who populate The Mystery of Love and Sex, but I assure you, you don't. The secrets in Bathsheba Doran's play drop as frequently as overripe fruit from a tree in ...
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Theatre in Review: The Audience (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
It's fascinating to contemplate how many great actresses have enjoyed career highlights playing the queens of England. Helen Hayes made a signature role out of Victoria. Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, and Cate Blanchett offered distinctly ...
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Theatre in Review: The Man of the Hour (Metropolitan Playhouse)
The people at the Metropolitan Playhouse -- a group that really knows how to dig them up -- has disinterred a 1906 work by the writer-producer George H. Broadhurst. A forgotten figure today, his name nevertheless adorns the ...
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Theatre in Review: The World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
Few plays this season begin in such blunt, slam-bang fashion as The World of Extreme Happiness. The lights come up on a tiny farmhouse in rural China where a woman is giving birth; she stands, clutching a window sill, crying ...
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Theatre in Review: The Nomad (Flea Theater)
Isabelle Eberhardt is the kind of character no fiction writer would dream up. The Swiss-born daughter of a Russian aristocrat and an Armenian anarchist, she began dressing as a boy at an early age; she also conceived a fascination ...
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Theatre in Review: Big Love (Signature Theatre)
It is a great pity that Tennessee Williams sewed up the title Slapstick Tragedy 50 years ago, because it would be absolutely perfect for the conniption fit currently unfolding at the Signature. Playwright Charles Mee has ...
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