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  Theatre in Review: Fashions for Men (Mint Theater Company)
Fashions for Men is set in a Budapest haberdashery where the principal product is comic irony, impeccably silken, and available by the yard. Ferenc Molnár's comedy pits an almost absurdly virtuous protagonist against ...
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Theatre in Review: Abundance (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
Beth Henley wastes no time in disillusioning the two heroines of Abundance, her feel-bad epic about pioneer women. Bess and Macon are introduced sitting at a stagecoach stop somewhere in the Wyoming Territory in the ...
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Theatre in Review: Bright Half Life (Women's Project)
How do you sum up a lifelong love affair in 90 minutes? A tall order, no? As it happens, Tanya Barfield has the trick down cold. In Bright Half Life, we see the decades-spanning relationship of Erica and Vicky -- as ...
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Theatre in Review: John and Jen (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
The mistakes of one generation play out in the next in John and Jen, the 1995 musical two-hander that introduced a young composer named Andrew Lippa. The book, co-written by Lippa and Tom Greenwald, employs a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Winter's Tale (Pearl Theatre Company)
The Winter's Tale in a dining room? Well, why not? Even if it is one of the more stageworthy of Shakespeare's so-called problem plays, it is nevertheless an anthology of fantastic stage devices, wildly improbable plot twists, ...
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Theatre in Review: Five Times in One Night (Youngblood EST/Ensemble Studio Theatre)
You don't need me to tell you that dating is hell, but you certainly may need Chiara Atik to explain how amusing that hell can be. In Five Times in One Night, Atik explores what happens when boy meets girl down through ...
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Theatre in Review: Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages/Duke on 42nd Street)
In "Life Signs," the funniest entry in David Ives' latest collection of theatrical curiosities, Helen, a stately Park Avenue widow, has died -- but she won't shut up. First, little "hellos" pop out of her mouth at random intervals, ...
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Theatre in Review: Rocket to the Moon (Peccadillo Theater Company/Theatre at St. Clement's)
The presence of a young, pretty assistant lays bare a host of discontents, not all of them erotic, in a Manhattan dentist's office in Rocket to the Moon. Like The Big Knife, this 1938 drama is one of Clifford Odets
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Theatre in Review: The Insurgents (Labyrinth Theater Company/Bank Street Theater)
The Insurgents begins with Cassie Beck, who plays Sally, the central character of Lucy Thurber's new play, entering, introducing herself, and, in her best giggly, I'm-just-a-girl manner, informing us that the ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Underground)
Little Children Dream of God begins with a very, very pregnant woman floating on a tire in the middle of the ocean. A refugee from Haiti, she soon turns up at a downmarket apartment house in Miami. Her name is Sula and she ...
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Theatre in Review: Churchill (New World Stages)
If you don't have plans to visit Blenheim Castle or the War Rooms in London, I suppose you could drop in on Churchill. This solo outing, adapted and performed by Ronald Keaton, offers a fast, painless tour through the ...
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Theatre in Review: Hamilton (The Public Theater)
I admit it: When I first heard that Lin-Manuel Miranda had written a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, I immediately thought of the unintentionally hilarious 1981 flop Marlowe, a rock musical about the Elizabethan ...
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Theatre in Review: The Lion (Lynn Redgrave Theater)
The Lion achieves its remarkable emotional pull with the minimum number of elements: a simple set, nice lighting, half a dozen guitars, and a single bared soul. The latter belongs to Benjamin Scheuer, who, casually, as ...
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Theatre in Review: The Subtle Body (Gold No Trade/59E59)
Unless you are extremely well versed in the medical history of the 18th century, you are probably unaware of John Floyer, the protagonist of The Subtle Body, a play that has the odd distinction of being one of the most ...
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Theatre in Review: The Events (New York Theatre Workshop)
Several years ago, New York Theatre Workshop presented Columbinus, a documentary play about the notorious Colorado school shooting, which some reviewers found to be exploitative, an unnecessary wallow in grim details. Now NYTW ...
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Theatre in Review: Everything You Touch (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Everything You Touch opens on an attention-getting note with a fashion show set in 1974. The clothes are hilariously high concept, featuring provocatively skimpy outfits topped with towering headgear; there isn't a single ...
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Theatre in Review: Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group/Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center)
It is no exaggeration to say that Rasheeda Speaking is the trickiest new play in town. Looked at one way, it's the story of a small, rather squalid, human resources issue in a doctor's office. If that sounds a little dull, ...
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Theatre in Review: City Of (The Playwrights Realm/Peter Jay Sharp Theater)
The above title refers to Paris, which one of the characters in Anton Dudley's play calls the "city of tangible dreaming." And what dreaming -- this is a Paris where garrulous gargoyles buddy up with ravenous pigeons, where sewer ...
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Theatre in Review: Application Pending (Westside Theatre)
I don't know about that Christina Bianco. She can't be flesh and blood, can she? Mercury is more like it. If you've ever seen her on the Internet, shifting identities a couple of dozen times during the course of a four-minute song, ...
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Theatre in Review: Pretty Filthy (The Civilians/Abrons Art Center)
The intrepid members of The Civilians are once again practicing their own inimitable form of anthropology. Having reported on life in the ultra-Christian city of Colorado Springs, explored the politics of gentrification in Brooklyn, and ...
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