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  Theatre in Review: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Classic Stage Company)
The director Brian Kulick makes a boldly imaginative gambit in his new staging of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and, before the production runs out of steam, it offers a fresh look at a classic rarely seen in New York. 
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Theatre in Review: Murder Ballad (Union Square Theatre)
Passion is a killer in Murder Ballad, the new pulp-fiction musical that has transferred to Off Broadway following a hit engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club. Sara and Tom, who form two sides of librettist Julia Jordan's ...
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Theatre in Review: Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse)
In play after play, Richard Nelson has specialized in creating communities of the alienated, tiny communities of like-minded souls who find themselves out of sync with the larger world. The most obvious example is the trio (soon to ...
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Theatre in Review: The Notebook of Trigorin (Attic Theatre Company/Flea Theatre)
Two very different dramatic sensibilities coexist uneasily in The Notebook of Trigorin. Tennessee Williams was on the record as revering Anton Chekhov, but it's not entirely clear what he thought he could bring to this ...
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Theatre in Review: Pinkolandia (INTAR Theater)
A legacy of political exile mars the lives of two young girls in Pinkolandia. Beny and Gaby are sisters, of Chilean descent, living in Milwaukee in the early 1980s; both spend too much of their time in fantasy worlds. Beny, who is ...
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Theatre in Review: Bunty Berman Presents (The New Group)
People often look down on those who create musical comedy for a living, as if it were naturally the province of simpletons. In fact, it is an exacting discipline that requires highly developed skills and a strong point of view. Ayub ...
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Theatre in Review: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
Rarely does one encounter a title as revealing as the one above, and what you see is what you get at The SoHo Rep. We are in a corporate boardroom with three actors sitting at a long table, waiting while jazzy music plays on the sound ...
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Theatre in Review: I'll Eat You Last (Booth Theatre)
Warning to all attending I'll East You Last: Prisoners are not being taken at the Booth Theatre. John Logan has decided that what we all need is a little chat with the late superagent Sue Mengers -- chat being a ...
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Theatre in Review: Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) (The Public Theater)
The set is cluttered with all sorts of paraphernalia -- pillows, bouquets of flowers, gilded picture frames, newspaper pages pasted to the wall. Also affixed to the wall are hundreds of letters, carefully arranged not to spell any words. ...
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Theatre in Review: Mariquitas (Theatre for the New City)
In the course of his long career, Eduardo Machado has examined modern Cuban history from a stunning variety of perspectives. In his latest work, Mariquitas, he comes up with an especially novel premise, examining the ...
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Theatre in Review: Pippin (Music Box Theatre)
Some actors steal a show; Andrea Martin takes over Pippin the way Sherman took Georgia -- with ruthless efficiency and brooking no opposition. She turns up about halfway through the first act as Berthe, the supposedly ...
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Theatre in Review: Core Values (Ars Nova)
If you've ever been on a company retreat, you're virtually certain to find plenty of hilarity in the first half of Core Values. Steven Levenson's play is set in a small Manhattan travel agency that largely caters to corporate ...
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Theatre in Review: This Side of Neverland (Pearl Theatre)
Pearl Theatre closes out its season with a pair of trifles from the pen of James Barrie, cannily assembled to show that he was much more than the sentimental creator of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Both plays are marked by an ...
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Theatre in Review: The Girl I Left Behind Me (59E59)
In The Girl I Left Behind Me, a kind of high-concept cabaret act, the opera singer Jessica Walker focuses on the phenomenon of cross-dressing women who once thrived in the British music hall and on the American vaudeville ...
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Theatre in Review: Owned (Knife Edge Productions/TBG Theatre)
As Humphrey Bogart says in Casablanca, "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world" -- words I found ringing in my ears at Owned. Julian ...
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Theatre in Review: Bull (59E59)
If you like your theatre neat, nasty, and armed with a knockout punch, you should consider immersing yourself for an hour or so in the no-holds-barred world of Bull. Entering Stage B at 59E59, you can tell that playwright M ...
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Theatre in Review: The Trip to Bountiful (Stephen Sondheim Theatre)
In a season packed with unnecessary revivals, The Trip to Bountiful seemed near the top of the list, given a 2005 Off Broadway staging that seemed as near to perfection as we were likely to get. But Cicely Tyson will ...
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Theatre in Review: The Memory Show (Transport Group)
The Memory Show invites us into the living room of Mother and Daughter, as they bicker, hurl accusations, and rewrite the past, all part of their lifelong struggle to seize the upper hand. It's a psychological boxing match in ...
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Theatre in Review: Orphans (Gerald S. Schoenfeld Theatre)
Orphans, an Off Broadway hit in 1985 and missing from New York ever since, is mostly interesting as a commentary on Broadway's star-crazy ways. The production exists solely because the producer assembled a package that ...
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Theatre in Review: The Testament of Mary (Walter Kerr Theatre)
The Testament of Mary begins with Fiona Shaw, by a pool, flicking bits of water with her fingers and smiling with childlike satisfaction. If you caught her last Broadway way, the gesture is enough to make your blood ...
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