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  Theatre in Review: Love's Labor's Lost (The Public Theater)
Love's Labor's Lost is a director's dream -- or nightmare, depending on your point of view. A deeply schizophrenic work -- fizzy and featherbrained at the beginning, grave and gloomy at the final curtain -- it presumably ...
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Theatre in Review: Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project Theatre)
Milk Like Sugar begins with a bit of a Beyoncé tune, which features the refrain "Who Runs the World? Girls!" And, for the first ten minutes or so of Kirsten Greenidge's gripping tale, it's a proposition that seems ...
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Theatre in Review: Children (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
The characters in Children are worried about erosion, as well they might be. The family's matriarch, standing on the terrace of her Massachusetts beach house, nervously eyes the Atlantic Ocean and says, "Some night, we'll ...
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Theatre in Review: Asuncion (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Asuncion is a young woman from the Philippines, and, frankly, she's a bit of mystery. Her origins are a little vague and, as pretty and pleasant as she is; her intentions are a little hard to read. She's not alone; the intentions of Je ...
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Theatre in Review: Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
It's always a treat when a playwright finds a new slant on familiar material, and, in Sons of the Prophet, Stephen Karam enlivens his dysfunctional family saga with any number of invigorating and amusing details. If the ...
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Theatre in Review: Relatively Speaking (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
On Broadway today, you can see any number of vintage shows, such as Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Follies, or Godspell -- but if you want a truly retro experience, there's Relatively ...
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Theatre in Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (The Public Theater)
The Public Theater's uncanny ability to find new works that speak to this exact moment continues with The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Rumor had it that, after Jobs' death two weeks ago, some argued that Mike ...
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Theatre in Review: The Mountaintop (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre)
This is the week of Martin Luther King tributes. In Washington, DC, his new memorial was dedicated a couple of days ago, and, on Broadway, Katori Hall's new play, The Mountaintop, offers a portrait of him on the last ...
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Theatre in Review: Man and Boy (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
Some theatre companies are devoted to new plays and playwrights; others devote themselves to the classics. Roundabout Theatre Company is largely about stars and their vehicles. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you have the ...
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Theatre in Review: We Live Here (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center)
As I left Manhattan Theatre Club the other night, I was surrounded by groups of theatergoers struggling to parse the action of We Live Here. One or two expressed frank disbelief that it had gotten a production at all. I ...
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Theatre in Review: Beyond Words (Urban Stages)
Bill Bowers calls himself a mime, but I'm not sure that the term does him justice. Yes, his current vehicle, Beyond Words, features a number of wordless sequences, as did his last piece, It Goes Without Saying, ...
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Theatre in Review: Any Given Monday (59E59)
Imagine a sitcom written by Thomas Hobbes and you have an idea of the peculiar nature of Any Given Monday. The show doesn't simply posit the idea that human existence is nasty, brutish, and short -- it celebrates it, with ...
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Theatre in Review: Motherhood Out Loud (Primary Stages/59E59)
There's not much that doesn't get said in Motherhood Out Loud, a fine, friendly, and funny examination of the many ages of maternity. Taking a leaf from the playbook established by the long-running Love, Loss, and What I ...
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Theatre in Review: Lidless (Page 73 Productions/Walkerspace)
There's nothing more dismaying than watching a playwright get her hands on incendiary material, only to write the life right out of it. That's the case with Lidless; the author, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, sets out to ...
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Theatre in Review: The Submission (MCC Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Jeff Talbott does himself no favors in the first 15 minutes or so of The Submission; it's rare that a play can get past such a weak premise to become something really interesting. As it happens, however, the author ...
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Theatre in Review: Lemon Sky (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
Are we due for a Lanford Wilson revival? The time seems ripe. Arguably the most critically acclaimed American playwright of the 1970s, his output began to dwindle at a relatively early age, his fortunes seemingly tied to the ...
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Theatre in Review: Newsies (Paper Mill Playhouse)
If you're feeling a little low energy, drop in on Paper Mill Playhouse, where Newsies, the running, jumping, and brawling new musical is currently threatening to leap right off the stage. Disney Theatricals, having ...
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Theatre in Review: Follies (Marquis Theatre)
The ghosts are back, and Broadway is better for it. As soon as the curtain rises on the single, impassive spirit of a showgirl past, you know you're going to be in good hands - and so it proves with Eric Schaeffer's revival of < ...
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Theatre in Review: Play It Cool (Theatre Row)
All hail Sally Mayes, one of our most distinctive musical theatre stars. Both a Broadway and a jazz baby, she can deliver a ballad straight, no chaser, breaking your heart in the process, and she can bend notes with the best of ...
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Theatre in Review: After (Partial Comfort Productions/The Wild Project)
Monty, the protagonist of After, has just been released from prison after 17 years -- or, roughly, half his life -- exonerated for a rape he didn't commit. The playwright, Chad Beckim, tells us very little about the ...
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