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  Theatre in Review: Antony and Cleopatra (The Public Theater)
The script for the Public's new Antony and Cleopatra is subtitled "a radical edit," but I wonder if Tarell Alvin McCraney, who adapted and directed, hasn't gone far enough in reworking Shakespeare's play to his ...
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Theatre in Review: Character Man (Urban Stages)
Jim Brochu is a professional Character Man -- as anyone who has seen him in The Man Who Came to Dinner or his one-man show Zero Hour, about Zero Mostel, knows -- but he's also a professional fan, burning ...
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Theatre in Review: Satchmo at the Waldorf (Westside Theatre)
Solo biography shows rarely get a performance as monumental as that currently being offered by John Douglas Thompson in Satchmo at the Waldorf, a new play about the last days of Louis Armstrong. But then the author, ...
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Theatre in Review: Gidion's Knot (59E59)
Gidion's Knot centers around the parent-teacher conference nobody ever wants to have: Corryn, the mother of the title character, shows up at his classroom, ready to keep her appointment with Heather, his teacher. Heather is ...
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Theatre in Review: Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons)
Jessica Hecht and screwball comedy; it's a match made in heaven. Cast as an actress who has snagged her first leading lady gig in years, she has a hundred different ways of illuminating the indignities that show folk must endure on ...
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Theatre in Review: Middle of the Night (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
The Keen Company revival of Middle of the Night is a deeply revealing event; it makes clear why Paddy Chayefsky's play ran 477 performances in the 1956 - 57 Broadway season and also why it has never been revived. ...
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Theatre in Review: Ode to Joy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre)
Adele, the central character in Craig Lucas' new play, is such a warmly appealing personality that you might not realize at first that she is a toxic train wreck, destined to drag to the bottom anyone who loves her. On the other hand, she ...
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Theatre in Review: Since Africa (Red Fern Theatre/14th Street Y)
In Since Africa, Mia McCullough takes on a challenging subject, focusing on one of the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan as he tries to adapt to a new and completely foreign life in Chicago. She then adds to her challenges ...
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Theatre in Review: London Wall (Mint Theatre Company)
The Mint, known for digging up forgotten works, has outdone itself with London Wall, a title even hard-core theatre fans will find unfamiliar. This isn't surprising; the author, John Van Druten, a reliable mid-20th-century ...
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Theatre in Review: The Bridges of Madison County (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
Quality is evident everywhere you look in The Bridges of Madison County. Librettist Marsha Norman and composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown have worked hard and meticulously to translate Robert James Waller ...
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Theatre in Review: Transport (Irish Repertory Theatre)
In the 1830s and '40s, approximately 40,000 "undesirables," convicted of minor crimes when they weren't innocent victims of trumped-up allegations, were transported from Ireland to the penal colony of Australia; many of them were women ...
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Theatre in Review: Love and Information (New York Theatre Workshop/Minetta Lane Theatre)
Caryl Churchill's new play is much less about love than information or rather the transmission of information. Churchill has taken note of the fact that we live in the Age of Nonstop Information, what with email, social networking, ...
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Theatre in Review: Bikeman (BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
If you're keen to relive the horrors of 9/11 in New York, Bikeman is just the thing for you. Otherwise, you may want to think twice about this singular, and singularly off-putting, piece of work. Thomas F. Flynn, a CBS News ...
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Theatre in Review: Dinner with Friends (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
A marriage falls apart in Dinner with Friends, but Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is more interested in the collateral damage caused to the warring couple's best friends. Gabe and Karen, food writers, ...
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Theatre in Review: The Correspondent (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
As its name suggests, Rattlestick is a company devoted to writers, and it performs a valuable service, showcasing the works of new and emerging playwrights. Almost necessarily, its track record has been uneven -- that's the nature of the ...
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Theatre in Review: Bronx Bombers (Circle in the Square)
Having played Off Broadway earlier in the season, Bronx Bombers has moved to Broadway, just as genial, pleasantly sentimental, and pointless as ever. Eric Simonson's play about the New York Yankees begins promisingly ...
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Theatre in Review: The Tribute Artist (Primary Stages/59E59)
Would you commit a crime to get your hands on a deluxe, mint-condition Greenwich Village town house? If you're a New Yorker, the question is too ridiculous: Of course, you would. That's the premise of Charles Busch's latest comic ...
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Theatre in Review: I Call My Brothers (The Play Company/New Ohio Theatre)
In I Call My Brothers, playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri explores the racing mind of a young Muslim man following a car bombing in New York City, where he lives. (The original script is set in Stockholm, the playwright's ...
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Theatre in Review: Almost, Maine (Transport Group/The Gym at Judson)
New Yorkers who haven't yet gotten their fill of snow should hightail it over to the Gym at Judson, where, in Sandra Goldmark's set design for Almost, Maine, the white stuff is omnipresent. Goldmark has created a wall ...
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Theatre in Review: Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington (New Federal Theatre/Castillo Theatre)
Playwright Clare Coss casts a light on a fascinating relationship -- not to mention an underdramatized bit of American history -- in Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington, and it's a shame she doesn't do more with it. W. E. B. ...
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