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  Theatre in Review: You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
If you attend You Will Get Sick, you'll see Linda Lavin auditioning to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in full costume. So there's that.
Lavin is one of the chief supports propping up Noah Diaz's ...
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Theatre in Review: A Delicate Balance (Transport Group/NAATCO at Connelly Theatre)
The bar is open at the Connelly Theatre, where the suburbanites of Edward Albee's 1967 drama are once again clinking glasses and shredding each other to bits. Unlike the white-hot marital combatants in Who's Afraid of Virginia ...
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Theatre in Review: My Broken Language (Signature Theatre)
My Broken Language is so front-loaded with gorgeous writing that it takes some time to realize its very real limitations. Subtitled "a theatre jawn" -- Pennsylvania slang for "a thing, place, person, or event that one need ...
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Theatre in Review: The Piano Lesson (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
There's quite a haunting going on at the Barrymore these nights, courtesy of LaTanya Richardson Jackson's revival of what may be August Wilson's best play. Although unseen, these shades are certainly felt thanks to the crack ...
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Theatre in Review: Topdog/Underdog (Golden Theatre)
Sometimes in a Broadway theatre, one experiences a kind of pentimento effect, glimpsing traces of productions that previously occupied the same stage. At the Golden Theatre, while taking in the superb teamwork of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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Theatre in Review: Candida (Gingold Theatre Group at Theatre Row)
So much thought has gone into reimagining this revival of George Bernard Shaw's comedy that its meaning has seemingly slipped the company's collective mind. Director David Staller transposes the action of Candida from ...
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Theatre in Review: F*ck7thGrade (The Wild Project)
Jill Sobule's new show is just like her: sly, sweet, disarming, musically gifted, and often hilarious. Best-known for 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl," she has flown under the radar in recent years; now she is ready to tell all about the ...
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Theatre in Review: Walking with Ghosts (Music Box Theatre)
The mind of Gabriel Byrne is quite the haunted house, populated by a multitude of shades -- some of them comforting, others guaranteed to give you the horrors. There is his mother, who, in her less affectionate moments, mutters, "Oh ...
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Theatre in Review: A Raisin in the Sun (Public Theater)
The sheer indestructibility of Lorraine Hansberry's pioneering Black drama is on display at the Public, most notably in its ability to withstand Robert O'Hara's directorial touches, some of which are more inspired than ...
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Theatre in Review: Straight Line Crazy (London Theatre Company at the Shed)
Playing urban planner Robert Moses, Ralph Fiennes is his own bulldozer, razing, with equal relish, city blocks and people, all in the name of progress. If his opponents' names are Vanderbilt or Whitney, so much the better. A ...
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Theatre in Review: Chester Bailey (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Even if Chester Bailey were a much weaker play, it would still be irresistible for the sensational father-son teaming of Reed Birney and Ephraim Birney. But Joseph Dougherty's beautifully shaped two ...
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Theatre in Review: Hound Dog (Ars Nova/Playco at Greenwich House)
It's a counterintuitive thought, to be sure, but the best playwrights understand the art of banality. Consider how Annie Baker, Anne Washburn, and this year's star rookie Gracie Gardner have mastered the knack of dialogue that says nothing ...
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Theatre in Review: Chekhov's First Play (Dead Centre/Irish Arts Center)
Chances are, you've never seen the first play written by Anton Chekhov, and you won't see it at the Irish Arts Center either, no matter the title of the current attraction. There's a good reason for this: The original script, an unfinished ...
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Theatre in Review: Albert Camus' The Fall (Soho Playhouse)
The Fall is set in an Amsterdam dive bar that doubles as a Last Chance Saloon of the Soul. The protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Clamence -- not his real name, to be sure, not after what he has gone through -- shuffles in, pours ...
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Theatre in Review: Wuthering Heights (Wise Children/National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse)
I'm not one to accuse others of criminal tendencies, but let's face it: Emma Rice gets away with murder. The writer/director has the knack of taking unlikely materials from literature and film -- for example, Noël Coward's Brief ...
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Theatre in Review: 1776 (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
The furies circling the Roundabout revival of 1776, the classic musical about the Continental Congress and the rough birth of the American republic, may be more interesting than the production itself. Featuring a cast ...
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Theatre in Review: The Gold Room (I am a slow tide/HERE)
The last thing you want to hear about from the guy you just picked up is his case of chlamydia. This may go double if both of you are men, and he is also complaining that his girlfriend doesn't understand him. This unpromising beginning (fo ...
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Theatre in Review: Leopoldstadt (Longacre Theatre)
Tom Stoppard's latest, and possibly last, drama is a monumental work, a threnody for a family, a way of life, and an idea of civilization. It begins in 1899 with a large, wealthy, and well-connected Austrian Jewish clan making merry ...
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Theatre in Review: Everything's Fine (DR2 Theatre)
Douglas McGrath's solo show is in the tradition, stretching back at least to James Thurber, of warm, homey memoirs about growing up in a heartland America marked by eccentricity and mild grotesqueries. The operating words here are "h ...
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Theatre in Review: Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
Cost of Living is set in Brooklyn and Bayonne, and yet it had me oddly thinking of Margaret Thatcher. Or, maybe, not so oddly: It was Mrs. Thatcher, you will recall, who, infamously, noted, "Who is society? There is no such ...
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