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  Theatre in Review: The Mystery of Irma Vep (Red Bull Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Once more, darkness falls on Mandacrest. Fog creeps in. Wolves howl in the distance. Bursts of thunder and lightning shatter the calm. The stage is set for murder, mayhem, and some of the hammiest acting you've ever seen. Yes, The ...
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Theatre in Review: The Library (Public Theater)
In The Library, a high school sophomore survives a Columbine-type tragedy only to find herself a defendant in the court of public opinion. Caitlin Gabriel was in the library, studying with a friend, when an intruder entered ...
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Theatre in Review: The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theatre Company)
Martha Clarke's new production of The Threepenny Opera got mixed-to-negative reviews, but this may not mean much, because The Threepenny Opera always seems to get mixed reviews. This is partly because everyone has a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Realistic Joneses (Lyceum Theatre)
The characters in The Realistic Joneses apparently live in a small town on the edge of a woods, but, ontologically speaking, they dwell in the middle of nowhere, a bleak, mysterious place where the future looks grim and meaning is ...
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Theatre in Review: The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company)
Theatre in Review: The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company) David Ives continues his bid to be the hot new playwright of the 17th century with The Heir Apparent . A couple of seasons ago, The School for Lies, ...
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Theatre in Review: Bullets Over Broadway (St. James Theatre)
In Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen and Susan Stroman have conspired to produce the big, splashy, stylish old-school musical that every season needs. By and large, they have succeeded, with one proviso: This is ...
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Theatre in Review: Heathers (New World Stages)
When did the musical theatre become a charnel house? I mean, really, people: I remember when Oklahoma! was known as the rare musical in which someone is killed. Sweeney Todd was quite the shocker in 1979, what with all those ...
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Theatre in Review: A Raisin in the Sun (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
History repeats itself on Broadway in ever-sooner iterations these days. Not only are we getting A Raisin in the Sun again only ten years after its last production, it comes with the same director, Kenny Leon. Even in today's ...
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Theatre in Review: If/Then (Richard Rodgers Theatre)
Elizabeth, the heroine of If/Then, is ambivalent about everything in her life -- her divorce, her career, the men who would like to woo her -- so much so that it's hard not to be a little ambivalent about her. When we meet her at ...
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Theatre in Review: Hellman v. McCarthy (Abingdon Theatre Company)
The title bout may be Hellman v. McCarthy, but the laurels go to the referee, Dick Cavett. Brian Richard Mori's new play, about one of the 20th century's great literary catfights, is framed as an episode of The Dick ...
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Theatre in Review: Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater Company/West End Theater)
Jasper, the hero of Jasper in Deadland, is one troubled teen. His parents are divorcing, his mother has a boyfriend, he hates school, and he has no friends. Well, actually, he has one friend, a girl named Agnes, but as this new ...
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Theatre in Review: Beyond Therapy (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
Beyond Therapy begins with the blind date from hell: Having been introduced through a personal ad, Bruce and Prudence meet for the first time in a restaurant. He says, "I hope you don't think I'm too macho for you." He also ...
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Theatre in Review: Tales from Red Vienna (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
Tales from Red Vienna certainly opens on an attention-getting note, with a wordless, anonymous, paid sexual encounter. Through a blue diaphanous curtain, we see a couple enter an apartment. She is in full mourning, her face ...
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Theatre in Review: Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre)
Attention, everyone: Les Misérables is back on Broadway, as big as life and twice as bombastic. I hear some of you in the back of the room grumbling, Why do we need a revival of a show that ran 6,680 performances the first ...
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Theatre in Review: Mothers and Sons (Golden Theatre)
Tyne Daly has mastered the art of revealing exactly what she is thinking while remaining thoroughly poker-faced. It's a skill that she puts to excellent use in Terrence McNally's Mothers and Sons, as Katharine ...
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Theatre in Review: Appropriate (Signature Theatre Company)
Looking for some dysfunctional family action? In Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has assembled the most neurotic and fractious tribe to be seen since the Westons of Osage County last staged a dining room brawl. You ...
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Theatre in Review: Aladdin (New Amsterdam Theatre)
It seems ever-clearer that the Disney Theatricals crew is going back to the future. The company's most recent production, Newsies, was conceived firmly in the classic '50s - '60s book musical tradition, and, thanks to a solid ...
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Theatre in Review: Day of the Dog (St. Louis Actors' Studio/59E59)
Paul and Julianne have a problem: Their dog, Carrot, has a few issues relating to humans. Exactly how vexing these are can be gleaned from the bandages running up and down Paul's arms. Things have come to such a pass that Paul is frankly ...
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Theatre in Review: All the Way (Neil Simon Theatre)
The first-night reviews for All the Way focused on Bryan Cranston's much-anticipated Broadway debut as Lyndon B. Johnson; nothing wrong with that, and we'll get to Cranston in a moment. But even more impressive is the company ...
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Theatre in Review: Rocky (Winter Garden Theatre)
If Rocky turns out to be Broadway's next blockbuster, it will be because of Alex Timbers, the next great theatre showman. The same director who presided over the conversion of the Bernard B. Jacobs into a bizarre ...
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