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Theatre in Review: The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)

The emergence of the New Woman and the mania for divorce rocks New York society in David Auburn's gloss on Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy. Originally a vehicle for Mrs. Fiske, one of the era's great leading ladies -- her ...

Theatre in Review: Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi Newhouse Theatre)

"The time to make up your mind about people is never," wrote Philip Barry. They're words that Jon Robin Baitz has seemingly taken to heart in Other Desert Cities, and the result is, far and away, his best play in ...

Theatre in Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines)

You rarely get universal agreement among the members of the Broadway press, but last week's reviews for the Roundabout revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest constituted one big love letter to Bri ...

Theatre in Review: Flipzoids (Ma-Yi Theatre Company)

Flipzoids is basically a play about an old lady on a beach, and it's our good fortune that she's played by Ching Valdes-Aran. As Aying, an aging Filipino woman who has been unwillingly brought to Southern California ...

Theatre in Review: Honey Brown Eyes (Working Theatre/Theatre Row)

Following the murders in Arizona last week, there's been so much talk about the breakdown of civility in America that it's easy to forget how good we have it. Consider Honey Brown Eyes, in which the playwright Stefanie ...

Theatre in Review: Carnival Round the Central Figure (IRT Theatre)

The Central Figure of the title of Diana Amsterdam's play - indeed located at the center of the stage -- is a middle-aged man wasting away from some terrible disease. Or it's a young woman, dying well before her time, and, for her ...

Theatre in Review: Blood From a Stone (The New Group/Theatre Row)

In Blood from a Stone, Tommy Nohilly, a first-time playwright, means to draw the most poisonous family portrait since the Westons, of Osage County, Oklahoma, last got together to bury one of their own. It's a tall order, ...

Theatre in Review: A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons)

It's a smart playwright who recognizes that sometimes words have their limits, and only silence can communicate the profoundest of feelings. By this standard, Adam Bock is a very smart playwright; for the proof, see A Small ...

Theatre in Review: Jomama Jones: Radiate (Soho Rep)

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the American comeback of Jomama Jones.
Who is Jomama Jones, you say? You don't remember such '80s hits as "Ghetto (In My Mind)" or "Afromatic"? You never caught her strutting on Soul Train and < ...