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  Theatre in Review: Los Otros (Premieres NYC at ART/New York Theatres)
For much of its running time, Los Otros appears to be the story of two perfect strangers; that they are linked by one degree of separation doesn't become clear until near the end. Instead, librettist Ellen Fitzhugh and ...
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Theatre in Review: As You Like it (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theater)
The forest of Arden is the place to be these nights, at least as seen at the Delacorte, where a musical version of As You Like It is welcoming audiences into its warm embrace. In Myung Hee Cho's charming scenic design, ...
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Theatre in Review: Two Jews, Talking (Theatre at St. Clement's)
To decide whether you might enjoy this grab-bag of old-school hokum, take this simple test: Do you fondly recall the era of sitcoms like That Girl, Barney Miller, and The Love Boat? Five points. Are you nostalgic for the ...
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Theatre in Review: On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages/59E59)
Time is the antagonist in Clarence Coo's play, which oddly calls to mind Vincente Minnelli's classic film The Clock while confidently addressing a world of contemporary sorrows. As in The Clock, a casual meeting leads ...
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Theatre in Review: The Butcher Boy (Irish Repertory Theatre)
It pains me to state the obvious, but in musical theatre, as in modern architecture, form follows function. This is something Asher Muldoon should consider.
Muldoon is the precocious talent behind The Butcher Boy -- having ...
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Theatre in Review: The Panic of '29 (Less Than Rent Theatre/59E59)
When playwright Graham Techler falls in love with a joke, the attraction is forever. So devoted is he to his little whimsies that can never let them go; instead, he trots them out repeatedly, like a proud parent showing off his darlings. ...
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Theatre in Review: Oresteia (Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
It has been a very, very long time -- perhaps never -- since I have seen a production so intimately acquainted with the terrors of the earth as Robert Icke's Oresteia. When first announced, the pairing of Hamlet ...
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Theatre in Review: The Kite Runner (Hayes Theatre)
The theatre has arrived at an oddly bookish moment -- beginning, I think, with the arrival of War Horse in 2011 and rapidly accelerating since then. While Broadway's golden era saw adaptations of Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby ...
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Theatre in Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Ruth Stage/Theatre at St. Clement's)
Maggie, the heroine of Tennessee Williams' play, demands to be heard -- indeed, her future depends on it -- so it's a problem that, in this new revival, she is so difficult to make out. Maggie, a former golden girl locked in a ...
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Theatre in Review: Heart (Minetta Lane Theatre)
In Heart, Jade Anouka has quite a coming-out story to tell -- up to a point. A formidable actress -- she was a standout in Phyllida Lloyd's productions of The Tempest (as Ariel) and Henry IV (as Hotspur) ...
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Theatre in Review: Into the Woods (St. James Theatre)
To understand why this Into the Woods is so enchanting, you must first understand what it is not: Do not expect elaborate designs, magical special effects, or fancy directorial concepts. Unlike its many New York revivals -- ...
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Theatre in Review: Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem)
The infinite flexibility with which the plays of William Shakespeare accommodate directors' wildest visions is on display these nights in Harlem, where Carl Cofield's revival of Twelfth Night fills the Richard ...
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Theatre in Review: Mister Miss America (All for One Theatre at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre)
I never knew it, but apparently Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre contains one of those mysterious portals that transport one to the distant past. How else to explain the building's summer tenant? On the surface, Mister Miss America ...
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Theatre in Review: Between the Lines (Tony Kiser Theater)
In the second act of Between the Lines, Delilah, the literature-besotted heroine, becomes trapped -- literally -- inside a fantasy novel, with no obvious means of escape. I think I know how she feels, having watched the cast ...
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Theatre in Review: Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theatre)
We've had some great productions of Richard III in recent years, along with some really terrible ones, but none have been as conflicted as Robert O'Hara's staging at the Delacorte. It's a mass of warring impulses, both ...
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Theatre in Review: Hamlet (Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
These days, it seems, Elsinore lives in a state high alert; anyway, that's the impression one takes from contemporary productions of Hamlet, which, increasingly, pit the title character against the brutal workings of ...
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Theatre in Review: Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)
The Feast of the Epiphany, as you may know, celebrates the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus Christ. This fact eludes nearly everyone in Brian Watkins' new play, even though they are gathering for dinner to celebrate it. One of ...
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Theatre in Review: Titanique (The Asylum NYC)
The summer silly season officially arrives with this frail, noisy offering, a Hollywood spoof grafted to a playlist of Céline Dion hits. Indeed, Dion is the show's presiding muse: During a museum tour, she emerges from a crone's outfit, ...
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Theatre in Review: Lessons in Survival: 1971 (Vineyard Theatre)
We have a new genre: the James Baldwin transcript play. Last March, the theatre company known as the american vicarious presented Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley, a nearly verbatim replay of the famous argument, at the Oxford Union, ...
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Theatre in Review: Chains (Mint Theater Company/Theatre Row)
Apparently, The Great Resignation really began in 1909. That's the unmistakable impression to be taken away from Chains, the latest entry in the Mint's ongoing rediscovery of the early twentieth century playwright Elizabeth ...
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