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  Theatre in Review: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
"There's nothin' up," sings Rosamund, the winsome heroine of The Robber Bridegroom, in one of that show's many beguiling songs. They are words that everyone involved in the new production at the Roundabout might well have ...
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Theatre in Review: Widowers' Houses (T.A.C.T. and Gingold Theatrical Group/Theatre Row)
Even geniuses have to write first plays, and Widowers' Houses must be ascribed to George Bernard Shaw. This is not to say that it is terrible, or that if another writer's name was on it, it might not be very much ...
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Theatre in Review: Hungry (The Public Theater)
One of the great things about Richard Nelson's plays is that they force you to listen -- hard. Nelson doesn't underline anything or spell it out, nor does he whip up any spurious histrionics. His characters rarely, if ever, raise ...
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Theatre in Review: Eclipsed (Golden Theatre)/The Humans (Helen Hayes Theatre)
Two of the season's finest Off Broadway productions have landed on Broadway with their considerable powers not only intact but, in some ways, heightened. Eclipsed remains a trip to the far side of the moon for most of us in ...
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Theatre in Review: Dot (Vineyard Theatre)
In Dot, playwright Colman Domingo applies such extremes of comedy and tears to his material that, combined with his passion to educate the public on a certain medical condition, it ends up coming across rather like one ...
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Theatre in Review: Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop)
The title of Lucas Hnath's last play, The Christians, would most definitely not apply to his newest work. Red Speedo is ostensibly about Olympic swimming, but the real sports being practiced are betrayal and one ...
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Theatre in Review: Angel Reapers (Signature Theatre)
The love of God is both thrilling and self-destructive in this unusual and affecting dance-theatre piece. The writer-director-choreographer, Martha Clarke, and her coauthor, Alfred Uhry, call to life the Shakers, the 18th ...
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Theatre in Review: Familiar (Playwrights Horizons)
We already know that Danai Gurira is a woman of many parts, what with her day job hunting zombies on the television series The Walking Dead and her parallel career as an acclaimed playwright, having just moved Eclipsed ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles (Theatre for a New Audience)
Only the bravest theatre artists tackle Pericles, which is, arguably, the most problematic of Shakespeare's plays, unless you count The Two Noble Kinsmen, which many do not. It has a plot so wild and wandering, ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wildness: Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale (Ars Nova/The Play Company)
If you're looking for some crystal blue persuasion or have been yearning for a glimpse of tangerine trees and marmalade skies, you might consider checking out The Wildness: Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale, a trippy evening of ...
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Theatre in Review: Dead Dog Park (59E59)
A couple of black kids invade an abandoned building in a bad New York neighborhood. Two cops go after them. While one cop is on the roof, in futile pursuit of one of the boys, the other boy, aged 13, goes flying out of the fourth-floor ...
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Theatre in Review: A Room of My Own (Abingdon Theatre Company/June Havoc Theatre)
The characters in Charles Messina's new play are so unruly, not even he can control them. No matter how much he -- and we -- may want them to shut up, they insist on venting, usually at the top of their voices. Billed as a semi ...
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Theatre in Review: Straight (Theatre Row)
Straight, the play, is rather like Ben, its protagonist -- all talk and no action. Well, there is a fair amount of action in Straight, if you know what I mean; the costume designer, Michael McDonald, must have ...
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Theatre in Review: Mabel Madness (Urban Stages)
About halfway through the new show at Urban Stages, the actress Trezana Beverley connects with the role of Mabel Mercer, and it is a beautiful thing to see and hear. She sings Cole Porter's "Love for Sale," an account ...
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Theatre in Review: Women Without Men (Mint Theater Company/City Center Stage II)
How does the Mint do it? Only a couple of years after it resurrected the work of the forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, the company presents Women Without Men, by Hazel Ellis, a contemporary of Deevy's, also ...
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Theatre in Review: Insignificance (Defibrillator/Langham Place)
In Insignificance, the playwright Terry Johnson has put Albert Einstein, Senator Joe McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, and Joe DiMaggio in a hotel room. In the production by the London-based theatre ...
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Theatre in Review: Smokefall (MCC Theater/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Smokefall is a poignant family saga, an ontological vaudeville show, and a time-bending, reality-twisting discussion of predestination versus free will, not to mention a meditation on the meaning of life. Before you click off ...
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Theatre in Review: The Body of an American (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane Theatre)
The Body of an American is about a reporter who gets his story and a playwright who doesn't -- and neither of them is very happy about it. Paul Watson is a real-life Canadian photojournalist who has spent the vast ...
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Theatre in Review: Nice Fish (St. Ann's Warehouse)
The love affair between Mark Rylance and the New York theatre has been an ardent one, for good reason, but, with Nice Fish, the relationship may be entering a period of strain. Rylance has given us so many magnificent ...
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Theatre in Review: Tennessee Williams 1982 (The Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company/Walkerspace)
Tennessee Williams 1982 consists of two one-act plays. In one, the protagonist is a homeless woman, covered in filthy, stinking horse skins, who speaks several animal languages; the second features a crippled young man who ...
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