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  Theatre in Review: Snow Orchid (Miranda Theatre Company/Theatre Row)
Late in the second act of Snow Orchid, two no-holds-barred parent-child confrontations make a sleeping play leap to savage, scalding life. Sebbie (short for Sebastiano), the elder son in a titanically troubled family, ...
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Theatre in Review: Shesh Yak (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/LaiLou Productions)
Shesh Yak begins in 2010, as the Syrian people are beginning to rise up against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Jameel, a youngish Syrian now living in New York, greets his guest, Haytham, one of his countrymen, who lives in ...
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Theatre in Review: Texas in Paris (York Theatre Company)
Lillias White and Scott Wakefield make an ideal team: He warms up the room and she brings down the house.
As John Burrus, a middle-aged Texas horse wrangler who never sang professionally until he finds himself ...
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Theatre in Review: Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/St. Ann's Warehouse)
It's been a long time since the theatre has produced as fragrant and seductive a flower of evil as Let the Right One In, a romance of adolescence and the undead that fascinates, disturbs, and at least once will have you ...
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Theatre in Review: The Road to Damascus (The Directors Company/59E59)
Tom Dulack's play begins with a terrorist bomb exploding near Rockefeller Center, a discomfiting thought for audiences at nearby 59E59. Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the idea of such events is still chilling, but everyone ...
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Theatre in Review: A Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company)
The lights come up on a classic tableau from Russian drama: a hot summer's day, with a gaggle of landed gentry lying around, doing nothing much, complaining of the boredom. It soon becomes obvious that any feelings of love -- or what ...
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Theatre in Review: Into the Woods (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
For nearly a quarter of a century -- trace this phenomenon back to the 1992 revival of The Most Happy Fella -- the idea has been going around that you can cut down any big Broadway musical to a half-size cast and a piano or two and ...
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Theatre in Review: A Delicate Balance (Golden Theatre)
Despite the title, there's nothing delicate about A Delicate Balance; the words on the program, "by Edward Albee," should put an end to that notion. Once again, the playwright has assembled a crowd of well-spoken, well ...
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Theatre in Review: Titus Andronicus (New York Shakespeare Exchange/HERE)
If you're looking for a bone-rattling evening of horror, the company assembled by New York Shakespeare Exchange will keep you pinned to your seat with its trim and brutal staging of Titus Andronicus. ...
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Theatre in Review: Honeymoon in Vegas (Nederlander Theatre)
If we got shows like Honeymoon in Vegas on a regular basis -- say two or three times a year -- Broadway would be a far, far happier place. The time is always right for a high-style musical farce designed to send the audience ...
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Theatre in Review: Everybody Gets Cake! (Parallel Exit/59E59)
How to explain the torrent of gags, non sequiturs, and sheer madness otherwise known as Everybody Gets Cake!? Well, here goes: On a white set covered with enormous black arrows and loaded with doors of all sizes, a trio of ...
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Theatre in Review: Da (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Today's topic is the care and feeding of yesterday's blockbusters. I don't mean classics: Romeo and Juliet will survive, no matter what directors do to it. I'm talking about those hits that, now past the first flush of youth, need a ...
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Theatre in Review: Winners (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
Was it only last week that Kate Benson gave us a fresh twist on the dysfunctional family comedy in A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes? It's back to business as usual this week with Winne ...
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Theatre in Review: Constellations (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
If John Lennon were alive today, would he rename one of his songs, "Across the Multiverse"? Then again, if you subscribe to the central concept of Constellations, Lennon is still alive, somewhere, somehow. As Marianne, a ...
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Theatre in Review: Wiesenthal (Theatre Row)
Simon Wiesenthal led an exemplary life, one that intersected with some of the most terrible events of the 20th century. But is it the stuff of drama? Tom Dugan's new drama, Wiesenthal, leaves the question ...
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Theatre in Review: A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes
I like Kate Benson's mind, and if you've ever unwillingly attended a family event -- in other words, if you belong to the human race -- chances are you will, too. In A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of ...
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Theatre in Review: The Cardinals (Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater)
If you've been dying to see an ecclesiastical puppet show, then The Cardinals is the thing for you. If such words leave you bemused, consider yourself warned. This thoroughly original but only intermittently amusing ...
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Theatre in Review: Dying for It (Atlantic Theater)
"You can't tell that joke! Communism isn't funny!" So warns one of the characters in Dying for It. It's a line that resonates sadly with the career of Nikolai Erdman, the Soviet-era Russian playwright, whose 1928 farce ...
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Theatre in Review: Ike at Night (Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater)
We attend the Under the Radar Festival for glimpses of the future, intimations of where theatre may be headed next. Over the years, I have encountered confessional monologues, song cycles, acts of social criticism, and no-holds-barred ...
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Theatre in Review: Cineastas (Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater)
In the Argentine production Cineastas, life is an enormous Mobius strip of stories printed on celluloid, a reel of endlessly unspooling narratives. Near the beginning of Mariano Pensotti's intriguing puzzle box of a ...
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