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  Theatre in Review: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
When The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window opened in 1964, New York Times reviewer Howard Taubman noted that it "lacked concision and cohesion. One remembers isolated passages rather than the work as a whole." Fine; ...
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Theatre in Review: Love (National Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
"We need to find a way to talk about things that we don't want to see." That's playwright/director Alexander Zeldin talking, and he achieves his goal magnificently in Love. Set in a UK homeless shelter, the play ...
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Theatre in Review: Becomes a Woman (City Center Stage II)
"You have to fight like hell all the time just to get the ordinary things that you're entitled to. If you don't want trouble, you don't want much else, either." Wise words from a shopgirl named Florry and, perhaps, the theme of this ...
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Theatre in Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (The New Group)
Whatever else you want to say about Thomas Bradshaw's contemporary gloss on Chekhov, Parker Posey is the funniest Arkadina you're ever likely to see. Known here as Irene, she is an actress of considerable note, at least in ...
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Theatre in Review: Conversations After Sex (ThisIsPopBaby/Irish Arts Center)
As Maureen McGovern has long reminded us, there's got to be a morning after. Or a late-afternoon postlude. Or, well, any time of the day or night as the heroine of Conversations After Sex makes her way across dozens of Dublin ...
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Theatre in Review: Letters from Max, a ritual (Signature Theatre Company)
It's not the length of one's life that counts; it's the intensity with which it is lived; that's the idea behind Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl's deeply personal memoir of the late poet Max Ritvo. Before his death at 25 ...
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Theatre in Review: Amani (National Black Theatre/Rattlestick Theater)
Amani covers roughly two decades in the title character's life and it's telling that, whether seen as grade schooler or a young adult, she seems virtually the same. Playwright a. k. payne's fey, fantastical approach ...
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Theatre in Review: Pictures from Home (Studio 54)
We rarely get dramatic vehicles anymore, more's the pity. I don't mean Jessica Chastain tackling A Doll's House or Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke in Death of a Salesman; any season is loaded with stars testing their ...
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Theatre in Review: She's Got Harlem on Her Mind (Metropolitan Playhouse)
The latest attraction at Metropolitan Playhouse -- aka, the theatre where they really dig them up -- is a trio of one-acts by Eulalie Spence, who, until now, has probably been best-known as a footnote in the life of another ...
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Theatre in Review: A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre Company)
Near the end of A Bright New Boise, an ugly disagreement erupts that lays bare a profound division inside American Christianity and, perhaps, the country itself. It's an exchange between Will and Anna, workers at a Hobby ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
Two marriages unravel, spectacularly, in The Wanderers, and you're likely to care much more about one than the other. I'm betting you'll be most engaged by Esther and Schmuli, a young, heartbreakingly innocent Hasidic couple ...
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Theatre in Review: Lucy (Minetta Lane Theatre)
If nothing else, Lucy, a new psychological thriller, will provide comfort, even validation, for the childless. In playwright Erica Schmidt's view, the business of raising kids is tantamount to living in a war zone ...
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Theatre in Review: Endgame (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson bring to Endgame something I've never known it to have: grandeur. It's a seedy grandeur, to be sure, but impressive for all of that. Thanks to them, Samuel Beckett's ...
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Theatre in Review: Without You (New World Stages)
Anthony Rapp's musical memoir falls firmly in the category of truth that is stranger than fiction. Part of it is the stuff of Broadway legend: The twenty-five-year-old actor, his career stuck in neutral, gets hired for a musical at ...
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Theatre in Review: The Appointment (Lighting Rod Special at WP Theater)
The Appointment, a musical revue about abortion, makes its case most strongly in three scenes that happen to be the production's most understated. In the first, a quartet of women planning to have the procedure are informed ...
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Theatre in Review: Modern Swimwear (The Tank)
Nick and Sylvie have a problem; actually, they have dozens, but first things first: During sex, whenever he is about to climax, Nick's mind floods with painful sounds that derail his orgasm. Over the course of a long, long night of ...
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Theatre in Review: Not About Me (Theatre for the New City)
Not About Me may be the most disingenuous title of the season; despite an ample supporting cast, Eduardo Machado's new play is all about him -- and, in his telling, his devastating effect on others. It's a ...
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Theatre in Review: Otto Frank (Under the Radar/Public Theater)
Roger Guenveur Smith's solo piece examines, in strikingly poetic language, the title figure, a Holocaust survivor and caretaker of his daughter's astounding legacy. As portrayed here, Otto Frank's stream-of-consciousness account ...
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Theatre in Review: seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Under the Radar/Public Theater)
The title of Jasmine Lee-Jones' play is the sort of extreme statement that can unleash an outraged tweetstorm, which is pretty much what happens in seven methods of killing kylie jenner. Cleo, a Black, British graduate ...
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Theatre in Review: The Collaboration (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
With The Collaboration and the Neil Diamond musical A Beautiful Noise opening on Broadway two weeks apart, Anthony McCarten transfers his prodigious biographical endeavors from screen to stage. Peter Morgan can ...
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