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  Theatre in Review: Lucky Guy (Little Shubert Theatre)
In a recent interview, Leslie Jordan, one of the stars of Lucky Guy, reported that the show was, in fact, written 30 years ago. This is really surprising -- after all, most of the jokes in Lucky Guy are two ...
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Theatre in Review: A Minister's Wife (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)
I hate to have to point out the obvious, but not every play must be made into a musical. This goes double for the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Consider the case of A Minister's Wife, adapted from Shaw's Candida, and ...
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Theatre in Review: Baby, It's You! (Broadhurst Theatre)
I am not one of those musical theatre fans who reflexively hate the jukebox musical. I don't love the format, mind you, but I accept that time marches on and, in certain circumstances, such as Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys , ...
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Theatre in Review: Carson McCullers Talks About Love (Rattlestick Theatre)
Carson McCullers Talks About Love isn't the worst thing I've seen this season, but it is surely one of the oddest. Basically a cabaret act served up without the cocktails, it features the singer Suzanne Vega ...
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Theatre in Review: Future Anxiety (The Flea Theatre)
Things aren't looking good in Future Anxiety. Set in the not-too-distant future, it depicts a world that has basically gone to hell in a hand basket. The US economy has collapsed, removing all social services; dead bodies ...
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Theatre in Review: The Normal Heart (Golden Theatre)
There are, I am sure, more finely written or elegantly constructed plays in town than The Normal Heart, but if a single production comes near to matching its sheer pile-driver force, I don't know about it. Larry Kramer
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Theatre in Review: Born Yesterday (Cort Theatre)
If you haven't made the acquaintance of Nina Arianda, what are you waiting for?
Having made a stunning, out-of-left-field Off Broadway debut last season in Venus in Furs, she now makes an equally impressive Broadway bow ...
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Theatre in Review: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Second Stage)
I'm beginning to think that Lynn Nottage is some kind of multiple personality. It's almost inconceivable that the woman who gave us the poignant Intimate Apparel and the scalding Ruined has come up with By the ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Black Dress (The Exchange/Theatre at St. Clement's)
If you're sentimental about small-town America, steel yourself for Little Black Dress. The author, Ronan Noone, takes a look at one of those heartland towns that are supposed to be the backbone of this country, and ...
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Theatre in Review: The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... (The Public Theatre)
There's been a fascinating theme to the season at the Public, in which several plays have dealt with families whose histories are irretrievably intertwined with the politics of their time. They include the Bush-era liberals of In the ...
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Theatre in Review: The People in the Picture (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
I have concluded that Donna Murphy isn't an actress; she's a shape-shifter. There's no other way to explain the transformations she achieves in The People in the Picture. Cast as Reisel, a star of the Warsaw Yiddish ...
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Theatre in Review: Jerusalem (Music Box Theatre)
How many tours de force does Mark Rylance have in him? In the past couple of seasons, he has given us some memorably conceived losers and louts, but nothing can quite prepare you for his appearance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron ...
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Theatre in Review: Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova)
If you haven't gotten to know Bekah Brunstetter, it's time you did. I missed OORAH!, her New York debut, but from now on, I'll be keeping an eye out for her. Be a Good Little Widow is by no means a perfect ...
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Theatre in Review: The Shaugraun (Irish Repertory Theatre)
"The truth is locked in my soul, and heaven keeps the key." "Who are you who dare to lay hands on me? Do you know who I am?" "What! Has an infernal fate played such a trick on me?" Welcome to the world of The Shaugraun, ...
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Theatre in Review: The School for Lies (Classic Stage Company)
Molière, the most irreverent of playwrights, gets a taste of his own medicine in The School for Lies. David Ives has gotten his hands on The Misanthrope, one of the great dark comedies in all dramatic literature, and, ...
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Theatre in Review: Sister Act (Broadway Theatre)
Mormons have all the luck; these rude guys from South Park set out to lampoon them in a musical, and they end up with a show affirming the need for religious faith. Catholics, on the other hand, get Sister Act, which ...
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Theatre in Review: Catch Me If You Can (Neil Simon Theatre)
At a very early stage of his career, Aaron Tveit is becoming the king of the psychological musical. He first came to our attention a couple of seasons ago in Next to Normal, as a member of a family dominated by a bipolar ...
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Theatre in Review: The House of Blue Leaves (Walter Kerr Theatre)
One of the greatest plays of the 1970s, John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves is a magnificently manic-depressive comedy, an edifice of laughter built on a foundation of grief and terror. It's also a notoriously tricky ...
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Theatre in Review: Picked (Vineyard Theatre)
Is it possible to be a playwright and yet be afraid of drama? I've asked myself this question more than once when attending plays by Christopher Shinn. A writer with a distinct point of view, he has, in plays such as Where Do ...
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Theatre in Review: Reading Under the Influence (DR2 Theatre)
In Reading Under the Influence, the playwright Tony Glazer spoofs the "Real Housewives" franchise that has seemingly taken over the Bravo cable network. If this isn't the definition of shooting fish in a barrel, I ...
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