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  Theatre in Review: Kinky Boots (Al Hirschfeld Theatre)
"Drag queens are mainstream," proudly asserts Lola (née Simon), the cross-dressing lead character of Kinky Boots -- and, really, who in the packed Al Hirschfeld Theatre is going to contradict her? From its first ...
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Theatre in Review: Good With People (59E59)
A middle-aged woman working the welcome desk at a seaside hotel has an oddly tense encounter with a young male guest in Good With People, an initially intriguing but ultimately enervated two-hander by David Harrower ...
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Theatre in Review: Buyer and Cellar (Rattlestick Theatre)
It's easy to imagine Barbra Streisand -- not known for her sense of humor, especially when it comes to herself -- preparing a cease-and-desist order once she gets wind of Buyer and Cellar, but really, she needn't bother. What ...
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Theatre in Review: Hands on a Hardbody (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
The people behind Hands on a Hardbody have gotten their hands on a rich piece of material, and it's a pity that they don't know what to do with it. Their subject, taken from the 1997 documentary of the same name, is the ...
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Theatre in Review: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Cort Theatre)
In 1966, David Merrick produced a musical based on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. To call it a disaster is to understate the case: The project burned through three librettists (including, of all people, Edward Albee) ...
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Theatre in Review: The Mound Builders (Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center)
Theatregoers are getting a crash course in Lanford Wilson this season. Roundabout Theatre Company is offering Talley's Folly, his masterpiece in miniature and one of the two or three plays by which he will take his place in ...
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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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