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  Theatre in Review: The Layover (Second Stage)
After seeing Leslye Headland's twisty -- and clammy -- romantic thriller, you may want to trade in your frequent-flier miles; at the least, you'll be sure the next time you get on an airplane to have an enormous book with which to ...
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Theatre in Review: A Day by the Sea (Mint Theater Company)
"It's not a clever world we live in...not a first-rate world at all," says a silken-mannered diplomat lounging on a Dorset beach, delivering bad news to a younger colleague. Humphrey Campbell is his name and he could be speaking for anyone ...
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Theatre in Review: In the Event of My Death (Stable Cable Lab Co./IRT Theater)
In Lindsay Joy's new drama, a group of twentysomethings gathers for the funeral of a beloved high school classmate. If, in your mind's ear, you're hearing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," aka the theme song from The Big Chill
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Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts: Series B (59E59)
Prayers have been answered: After a dispiriting Series A, the annual Summer Shorts series of one-acts, now in its tenth year, presents a Series B packed with acting, directing, and writing talent. The opener, Black Flag ...
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Theatre in Review: Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons)
The title of Jaclyn Backhaus' new play isn't especially accurate: Men on Boats features no men and only the barest representations of boats. Yes, this historical comedy focuses on the explorer John Wesley Powell's 1869 ...
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Theatre in Review: Troilus and Cressida (The Public Theater/Delacorte Theater)
Time and again this summer I have been reminded that age cannot wither nor custom stale William Shakespeare's infinite variety. At his astonishing best, his plays feel as if they were written yesterday, so piercing and timeless are ...
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Theatre in Review: Engagements (Second Stage Theatre Uptown)
How you feel about Lucy Teitler's barbed sex comedy will probably depend on what you think of Lauren, the play's beleaguered, self-destructive heroine. Lauren is at yet another engagement party among her social set, along with her ...
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Theatre in Review: Cats (Neil Simon Theatre)
If you read this column even only occasionally, you're probably aware that I've been around more than a year or two. Although there's no truth to the rumor that I cheered on Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at the opening night of Du Barry ...
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Theatre in Review: Austin (Theatre Row)
The Cassidy family is a hot mess, and so is the play that portrays them. Austin Cassidy is a former money manager who has just graduated from what may be his twelfth time in rehab. (For this round of recovery, he has been in the Berkshires ...
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Theatre in Review: Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to School (Theatreworks USA)
If you're looking to introduce a little one to theatre, you should consider stopping by the Lucille Lortel, where the long-running children's theatre producer Theatreworks is presenting its latest musical about Junie B. Jones. The beloved ...
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Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts Series A (59E59)
This long-running festival of new writing puts its worst foot forward in the first of two programs. Based on the three offerings of Series A, one is forced to wonder if the pickings were especially slim this year. The most amusing piece is ...
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Theatre in Review: The Winter's Tale (New York Classical Theatre)
How thoughtful of the folks at New York Classical Theatre, which performs free Shakespeare in various city parks during the summer, to select the Battery for its current production, The Winter's Tale. During the hottest week ...
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Theatre in Review: Quietly (Irish Repertory Theatre)
The title of Owen McCafferty's play may seem strange at first, since its two main characters are linked by a legacy of violence and, at long last, they are to settle up with each other, frankly and sometimes furiously laying bare ...
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Theatre in Review: Butler (New Jersey Repertory Company/59E59)
Do we really need a boulevard comedy about slavery? Regardless, we now have one in Butler. Richard Strand -- who, I hasten to add, seems to have the very best intentions -- has aims to illuminate a little-known piece ...
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Theatre in Review: Paradiso: Chapter One
"I'm a friend of Mr. Chen." With this enigmatic statement, I was ushered into the murky world of Paradiso: Chapter One. Having arrived at a Midtown location -- I'm not allowed to say where -- on a recent Saturday afternoon, I ...
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Theatre in Review: A Class Act (New World Stages)
"You really think we can get a giant like General Chemical to settle?" That's the big question at the heart of A Class Act. Norman Shabel, a longtime trial and class action lawyer, has assembled a gallery of tough ...
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Theatre in Review: Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Richard Rodgers Amphitheater)
Drums pound, machetes are flashed, and the bodies pile up in Carl Cofield's production of The Scottish Play. Here, it's not so Scottish: The action has been moved to a country very much like Ethiopia during the reign of Haile ...
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Theatre in Review: Privacy (The Public Theater)
If you have ever dreamed of a date with Daniel Radcliffe, you should hop on down to the Public Theater, where he is starring in the singular entertainment known as Privacy. At one point in the second act, three members ...
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Theatre in Review: 2 by Tennessee Williams (St Luke's Theatre)
Fans of Tennessee Williams will be titillated by the opportunity to check out two of his rarely seen one-acts, but they should calm down and take a deep breath before proceeding to St. Luke's Theatre. Each of these plays needs ...
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Theatre in Review: No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming (Potomac Theatre Project)
Howard Barker has a thing for artists who go against the temper of their times. Last summer, Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) staged his play Scenes from an Execution, which focused on a female 17th-century Venetian painter ...
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