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  Theatre in Review: Final Follies (Cherry Lane)/Suddenly (HERE)
Over the years, Primary Stages has done A. R. Gurney proud, presenting exceptionally fine productions of such peerless high comedies as Indian Blood, Buffalo Gal, and Black Tie. Alas, the streak comes to an end ...
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Theatre in Review: What the Constitution Means to Me (New York Theatre Workshop)
For a lively, provocative assertion that the personal is political, look no farther than Heidi Schreck's fearless, funny examination of the American legal system. And when it comes to the United States Constitution, she ought to ...
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Theatre in Review: The Nap (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
Even if the publicity materials for The Nap didn't reveal that playwright Richard Bean started out in standup comedy, a few minutes at the Friedman would be enough to give away the game. That's because The Nap ...
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Theatre in Review: Oklahoma! (St. Ann's Warehouse)
"Let's not break the law. Let's bend it a little." So says Aunt Eller near the end of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, words that the director, Daniel Fish, and his company have taken to heart. Indeed, they ...
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Theatre in Review: The Evolution of Mann (The Cell)
This new musical wants to be a status report on the agonies of contemporary singles, but, alas, it feels stuck in its own personal time warp. The marriage-mad hero, Henry Mann, having attended no fewer than a dozen weddings in as many ...
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Theatre in Review: Girl from the North Country (Public Theater)
Can a play succeed on mood alone? That's the bet laid down by Conor McPherson and company in this attempt at a high-toned jukebox musical drawing on the enigmatic, supremely melancholic ballads of Bob Dylan. McPherson, a ...
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Theatre in Review: I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons)
With this new work, Craig Lucas reasserts his status as the most gorgeously contrarian of American playwrights. At a time when religious belief is so often casually derided, he wants us to at least consider the possibility of the ...
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Theatre in Review: Bernhardt/Hamlet (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
"I am Sarah Bernhardt. Like all actors, I am air." Yes, but what rarified and invigorating air, at least when the divine Sarah is being interpreted by the irrepressible, impossibly gifted Janet McTeer. Fitted out with a ...
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Theatre in Review: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (La Femme Productions/Theatre at St. Clement's)
Everything about this revival of a late Tennessee Williams work is busy. Harry Feiner's set is crammed with so much furniture that it resembles a thrift shop. The performers are forever bustling about, sometimes running ...
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Theatre in Review: The True (The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center)
The pleasure of seeing Edie Falco disappear into the role of Dorothea "Polly" Noonan is the greatest of many offered by Sharr White's salty, bracing comic drama about politics in Albany, circa 1977. Polly is the ...
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Theatre in Review: Intractable Woman: A Theatrical Memo on Anna Politkovskaya (PlayCo/122CC)
Even as the air continues to thicken with the current American president's paeans to various dictators and constant cries of "fake news," I draw your attention to Anna Politkovskaya, for whom journalism was a matter of life and death. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd (The Duke on 42nd Street)
It is always striking to see how a play's impact can be affected by its timing. In his new production at The Playwrights Realm, Jonathan Payne demonstrates a highly theatrical imagination and a willingness to tackle some of our ...
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Theatre in Review: You and I (Metropolitan Playhouse)
For its new production, Metropolitan Playhouse, that dealer in theatrical rarities, has dug deeply into the vault of long-unseen works to find Philip Barry's debut play. Barry went on to become one of Broadway's most confident ...
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Theatre in Review: Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project)
The title character of Uncle Vanya is one of drama's great complainers -- for good reason; he has plenty to stew over, and in Richard Nelson's new production, he is a true evangelist of the gospel of dissatisfaction. ...
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Theatre in Review: Agnes (Lesser America/59E59)
In Catya McMullen's comic drama, the hurricane raging outside a New York apartment is nearly matched by the emotional storms set loose inside. At first glance, Agnes looks like an unremarkable genre piece about a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Naturalists (Pond Theatre Company/Walkerspace)
The Naturalists introduces us to Jaki McCarrick, whom we will surely be hearing from again, such is her gift for singular, sharply drawn characters and dialogue with a touch of the lyric about it. (The Pond Theatre ...
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Theatre in Review: Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (MCC Theater/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
The limitations of our database prevent me from listing this play's full title in our headline slot. The unexpurgated version is Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; In Essence, a Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do ...
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Theatre in Review: Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical Group/Theatre Row)
Heartbreak House is a decaying country manse where the willful members of the Shotover family take part in shameless intrigues, violating social norms and behaving in a beastly manner to their put-upon guests while remaining ...
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Theatre in Review: Separate and Equal (59E59)
In Separate and Equal, a pickup basketball game becomes a proxy war in the fractured, fractious state of race relations in Birmingham, Alabama, 1951. Seth Panitch, who is responsible for both the script and its ...
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Theatre in Review: Private Peaceful (TBG Mainstage)
Joey, the title character of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse, is fed into the vortex of World War I, left to wander a wasteland of death and destruction. Tommo, the soldier protagonist of Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, ...
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