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  Theatre in Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Imperial Theatre)
Having made a long and arduous journey from the tiny Ars Nova Theater -- there was a stopover at a circus tent in the Meatpacking District -- Dave Malloy's Tolstoyan musical has landed on Broadway with a flourish and a confident ...
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Theatre in Review: "Master Harold"...and the Boys (Signature Theatre/Irene Diamond Stage)
Try as I might, I cannot think of a more unsparing self-portrait than the one offered by Athol Fugard in "Master Harold"...and the Boys, and it is rendered in harrowing detail by Noah Robbins. The actor, who is ...
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Theatre in Review: Sweet (National Black Theatre)
Sweet takes place in the summers of 1968 and '69, when the world was, in many ways, being turned upside down. All of that remains offstage, however. A war is raging, students are taking over deans' offices, and cities are ...
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Theatre in Review: Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
Near the end of Vietgone, the playwright Qui Nguyen -- well, really, the actor Paco Tolson, playing him -- finds himself frustrated in his attempts at getting his father to tell his life story. The older man, ...
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Theatre in Review: Coriolanus (Red Bull Theater at Barrow Street Theatre)
Michael Sexton's modern-dress staging of Coriolanus features at least one moment that, seen before last week's election, froze the blood; if you plan on attending, hold on tight. As you probably know, the title ...
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Theatre in Review: Falsettos (Lincoln Center Theater Company at Walter Kerr Theatre)
What was I thinking? When it was first announced that Lincoln Center Theater was producing a revival of Falsettos, I thought, Surely it won't have the same impact it had in 1992. This tale of a man, his male lover, and their ...
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Theatre in Review: Finian's Rainbow (Irish Repertory Theatre)
There are two excellent reasons to check out Charlotte Moore's second revival of Finian's Rainbow. First and foremost is that heavenly score. Burton Lane's music mixes a touch of Irish balladry with Southern ...
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Theatre in Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble at the Wild Project)
There are many striking -- and, usually, disturbing -- images in Kevin Confoy's production of Bertolt Brecht's political epic. Craig Smith, as the title character, a Hitlerian figure bent on taking over the cauliflower ...
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Theatre in Review: The Collector (59E59)
If, a few years ago, you had told me that in 2016 I would be seeing a stage adaptation of John Fowles' The Collector, I would have stared in disbelief. The novel was a bestseller in 1962 -- it put Fowles on the ...
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Theatre in Review: Sweat (The Public Theater)
This fall, The Public Theater provides you with all the election coverage you really need. I don't mean the day-to-day reporting of who is up or down in the polls, nor the steady drip-drip-drip of scandal, real or imagined. But, in certain ...
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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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