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  Theatre in Review: Happy Birthday (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
Joshua Logan writes in his memoirs that, having staged Annie Get Your Gun for producers Rodgers and Hammerstein, he was told by the latter that they were eager to work with him again. "That, I hope, meant the next Rodgers and ...
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Theatre in Review: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Golden Theatre)
I'm happy to report that Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike has transferred to Broadway with all of its laughter and considerable heart intact. Christopher Durang has crossbred the plots of the major Chekhov plays, ...
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Theatre in Review: Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre)
Hit the Wall wants to offer a wide-angle view of the Stonewall Riots, the series of events enshrined in legend as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement -- in a tiny space with a dozen actors and a running time of 90 ...
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Theatre in Review: Ann (Vivian Beaumont Theater)
Now that Ann has opened, the Tony committee may have to create a new category, for best featured hair. The coif worn by Holland Taylor in her solo play about Ann Richards, the late governor of Texas, is a thing to ...
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Theatre in Review: Totem (Citi Field)
Totem is the latest collaboration between Cirque du Soleil (CDS) and the director Robert Lepage, an alliance that brought you a little thing called KÀ. Unlike that Las Vegas mega-spectacle, Totem is a ...
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Theatre in Review: Old Hats (Pershing Square Signature Center)
The title is Old Hats, and, in truth, neither of its principal clowns is a kid anymore; nevertheless, the mood on stage at the Signature Theatre is younger than springtime, thanks to the uninhibited hilarity of Bill Irwin
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Theatre in Review: The Flick (Playwrights Horizons)
In plays like Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens, Annie Baker has created a universe populated by a distinctive tribe of losers and lost souls; using terse dialogue and some of the most pregnant pauses since ...
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Theatre in Review: Detroit '67 (The Public Theater)
The fall of Detroit -- once a thriving industrial metropolis, now a bankrupt, burned-out shell -- is one of the great American tragedies; it's also the stuff of drama, but so far no playwright has dared to take it on. Now comes Detroi ...
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Theatre in Review: Neva (The Public Theater)
The words -- anguished, furious, shot through with longing, and frequently dripping with acid -- come in raging rivers in Neva. If lengthy stretches of prose, thick as borscht with sour cream and with the destabilizing kick ...
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Theatre in Review: The Madrid (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center)
Why would you hire an actress of Edie Falco's caliber to star in a play and then banish her to the wings? A strange question, I know, but that's exactly what happened with The Madrid, a confused work receiving a ...
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Theatre in Review: Talley's Folly (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
In a way, Talley's Folly begins with a lie. Danny Burstein, in the role of the Jewish accountant (and would-be suitor) Matt Friedman appears in the setting of the title (a magnificently ruined boathouse designed with ...
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Theatre in Review: The North Pool (Vineyard Theatre)
Even if high school was an absolute nightmare for you, a trip to the vice principal's office was surely never the exercise in menace that it is in The North Pool. Before the plot of Rajiv Joseph's two-hander takes a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Dance and the Railroad (Signature Theatre)
In The Dance and the Railroad, David Henry Hwang has seized on a fascinating aspect of American history, and it's a great pity that he doesn't make more of it. Using an extreme close-up lens, he focuses on a brief ...
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Theatre in Review: The Drawer Boy (Oberon Theatre Ensemble/Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex)
Angus, a middle-aged Canadian farmer, is the drawer boy, although what that means is revealed only gradually in Michael Healey's play. It is 1972, somewhere in central Ontario. The obviously brain-damaged Angus, who suffers from a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Old Boy (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
"My God, does anyone ever let go of this place?" Not in The Old Boy, as a visit to his old prep school forces the title character to confront the legacy of pain he left behind. Seeing the new Keen Company production, it's ...
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Theatre in Review: Henry IV, Part I (Pearl Theatre Company)
To accommodate the action of Henry IV, Part I, Daniel Zimmerman, the set designer, has stripped the Pearl Theatre stage to the walls. At stage right is a large map of Britain; at stage left are barrels of wine and a tavern ...
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Theatre in Review: Belleville (New York Theatre Workshop)
If there was an award for most merciless play of the year, Belleville would take it handily. Amy Herzog's new play is not so much a dissection of an unhappy marriage as it is a vivisection; she all but flays her ...
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Theatre in Review: Passion (Classic Stage Company)
In the family of Stephen Sondheim's musicals, Passion is the crazy aunt who lives in the attic; it won't go, and it can't be ignored. Sondheim has had bigger flops, to be sure, but Anyone Can Whistle and Merri ...
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Theatre in Review: The Revisionist (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Vanessa Redgrave? At the Cherry Lane? Really? Many have expressed their surprise that she is deigning to appear in a Rattlestick production at the storied Cherry Lane. I confess I was a little surprised myself. What's next, I ...
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Theatre in Review: Really Really (MCC Theatre at Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Paul Downs Colaizzo, a first-time playwright, certainly isn't afraid of a provocative premise. He also has a knack for plot twists; in fact, he twists his debut work, Really Really, into a pretzel before he's done, ...
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