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  Theatre in Review: Winners and Losers (Soho Rep)
In Winners and Losers, Marcus Youssef and James Long play a game that they have invented. It has no particular structure or goal, consisting as it does entirely of back-and-forth commentary. That pretty much ...
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Theatre in Review: Beware of Young Girls: Kate Dimbleby Sings the Dory Previn Story (59E59)
Kate Dimbleby has done us a favor in highlighting the neglected song catalog of Dory Previn. Perhaps because she came into her own at a time - the early '70s - when distinctive singer/songwriters cropped up practically every ...
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Theatre in Review: Café Society Swing (59E59)
If you never had the chance to go slumming in Greenwich Village with high society swells, thrilling to Billie Holiday or the young Lena Horne -- and, really, who among us ever did? -- the next best thing is to check out Café Society ...
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Theatre in Review: Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons)
"It's sort of hard to know how to live nowadays, isn't it?" So says Eddie, the manager of the generic Olive Garden-style restaurant that is the setting for Pocatello, and he ought to know. Indeed, with its arbor of fake ...
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Theatre in Review: The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop)
Free market economics meets jihad in The Invisible Hand, a tense and thoroughly original political thriller from Ayad Akhtar. The author gives his ripped-from-the-headlines premise a novel twist that allows for scene ...
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Theatre in Review: The Elephant Man (Booth Theatre)
There are at least three moments in Scott Ellis' revival of The Elephant Man that are marked by the kind of silence that occurs only when an audience is listening, intently, with every ounce of its collective ...
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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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