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  Theatre in Review: Sagittarius Ponderosa (NAATCO/3LD Art & Technology Center)
MJ Kaufman's new play has all the hallmarks of a standard-issue family play, but is inflected with a number of original touches that make it easy to take. This is the old one about the directionless young person who moves back home ...
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Theatre in Review: The Front Page (Broadhurst Theatre)
If you ask me, the reviews of The Front Page make entirely too much of Nathan Lane. This is nothing against the actor, who has been making me laugh, pretty much without fail, since 1982, and once again he does not ...
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Theatre in Review: Two Class Acts (The Flea Theater)
The playwright A. R. Gurney has been a class act for several decades, and it's only appropriate that he ring down the curtain on the current location of the Flea Theater, which has done so well by him in recent years. (In 2017, The ...
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Theatre in Review: Not That Jewish (New World Stages)
When Monica Piper was seven, she was informed by a friend that because her family didn't attend temple on the High Holy Days, she wasn't that Jewish. Her father dismissed that as nonsense; after all, wasn't her mother in the kitchen ...
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Theatre in Review: End of Summer (Metropolitan Playhouse)
In his 1936 New York Times review of S. N. Behrman's End of Summer, Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Mr. Behrman and Philip Moeller [the play's director] have collaborated so long that they know exactly how to make a ...
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Theatre in Review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Booth Theatre)
The poster for the new Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses features Janet McTeer seated, her back resting against an easel on which sits a painting depicting nudes in a pastoral setting. The skirt ...
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Theatre in Review: A Life (Playwrights Horizons)
Is there is a more consistently surprising playwright than Adam Bock? Each of his plays seems to spring from its own unique well of inspiration. The sinister suspense of The Receptionist, the stunning sexual encounter at the ...
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Theatre in Review: Tick, Tick...Boom! (Keen Company at Theatre Row)
Johnny, we hardly knew ye: One of the most stunning theatre stories of our time is that of the songwriter/librettist Jonathan Larson, who for years labored in obscurity, then died suddenly the night before the first preview, at New ...
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Theatre in Review: Love, Love, Love (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Decade after decade, selfishness never goes out of style; so goes the message of Love, Love, Love. Mike Bartlett, last seen in New York with his "future history" play, King Charles III, returns with a once-over ...
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Theatre in Review: Duat (Soho Rep at Connelly Theater)
In the first act of Duat, the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones delves into his past, examining his family and contradiction-filled upbringing with a novelist's eye. In the second half he...well, I don't really ...
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Theatre in Review: Sell/Buy/Date (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage II)
I didn't see Sarah Jones' debut piece, Bridge and Tunnel, in 2004, so for some of you I may be stating the obvious, but still it needs to be said: When it comes to the multiple-character solo show format, the lady simply has ...
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Theatre in Review: Plenty (The Public Theater)
In his 1978 drama, Plenty, David Hare gave us one of the most fascinating -- and disturbing -- heroines in modern dramatic literature. When we first meet Susan Traherne, we can't be sure she hasn't murdered the naked ...
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Theatre in Review: She Stoops to Conquer (The Actors Company Theatre at Theatre Row)
Everyone involved with TACT's revival of She Stoops to Conquer wants you to have a good time; this may be the most solicitous cast in in town. Before the play begins, the actors drift into the house, welcoming us and thanking us for ...
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Theatre in Review: Communion (Urban Stages)
There's a dark cloud hanging over Urban Stages these nights, in the form of Daniel MacIvor's exceedingly grim three-hander. The characters in Communion are coping with loss -- of life, of faith, or of peace of mind -- and ...
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Theatre in Review: Orwell in America (Northern Stage at 59E59)
Considering that he was such a stickler for the facts, it's fascinating that Orwell in America aims to get at the truth of its title character through an entirely fictional set of incidents. To be clear: George Orwell never ...
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Theatre in Review: Daddy Issues (Theatre at St. Clement's)
One thing you can say about Daddy Issues is that, with its cast of swishy gays, kvetching Jews, and drunken Irish, it serves as a veritable compendium of stage clichés, for easy reference. Drama students could also profitably use it ...
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Theatre in Review: Stuffed (WP Theater at McGinn Cazale Theatre)
Having gone legit for the first time in her career, Lisa Lampanelli hasn't so much written a play as convened a coffee klatsch focused on that troublesome trio: women, food, and body image. Prepare yourself for wisecracks about -- ...
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Theatre in Review: The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
The clock is ticking more insistently than ever in Simon Godwin's production of the Anton Chekhov classic, about a landed family on the verge of being dispossessed of its estate. As the once-wealthy, now-fading Ranevskaya and ...
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Theatre in Review: Oh, Hello On Broadway (Lyceum Theatre)
For some reason, the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have taken to playing Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, "legendary bachelors" and superannuated residents of the Upper West Side. Despite being roommates for 40 ...
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Theatre in Review: Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theater)
You could say that Chris Gethard's solo piece is about his career in suicide. As he freely admits, from the age of 14 he has been dogged by panic attacks and pervasive feelings of sadness. There was, he insists, no reason for this: ...
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