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  Theatre in Review: A View From the Bridge (Lyceum Theatre)
Having received acclaimed Broadway stagings in 1997 and 2010, A View From the Bridge wasn't really at the top of anyone's must-revive list, but Ivo Van Hove's production for London's Young Vic has arrived on a tidal ...
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Theatre in Review: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (The Flea Theater)
"Life is like a video game. Everyone must die." So says one of the characters in Jennifer Haley's suburban gothic, in which the teenage population of a residential cul-de-sac avidly plays a video game (see the title above) with dire ...
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Theatre in Review: Shear Madness (New World Stages)
It has taken 35 years for Shear Madness to make it to New York -- and now we know why.
Okay, I got that out of my system. If success is hard to argue with, Shear Madness is a real conversation-stopper. In 1980, Ma ...
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Theatre in Review: Abyss (The Play Company)
The disappearance of a young woman has profound effects on the lives of her friends in Maria Milisavljevic's new play, which casts a low-level spell of depression across the stage. Karla, who lives somewhere in Germany, stepped out ...
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Theatre in Review: Misery (Broadhurst Theatre)
If you want to have the bejesus scared out of you, Laurie Metcalf is your woman. As Annie Wilkes in Misery, she is an angel both of mercy and of death, an all-devouring black hole of need. One minute, she is as ...
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Theatre in Review: On Your Feet! (Marquis Theatre)
"Immigrants: We get the job done." So goes one of the most reliable applause lines in Hamilton. The words apply equally well to the show next door at the Marquis. Subtitled "The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan," On Your ...
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Theatre in Review: King Charles III (Music Box Theatre)
Mike Bartlett has seen the future and it is chaotic. The government has been dissolved. Crowds are massing in violent protest. The army is in the streets, attempting to maintain order. People everywhere look frightened, and so they ...
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Theatre in Review: Henry IV (St. Ann's Warehouse)
In her staging of Henry IV, the director, Phyllida Lloyd, empowers her all-female cast even as she leaves them oddly shackled. This is the second time the director has a deployed a company of women in all the roles of ...
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Theatre in Review: Lost Girls (MCC Theater/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
I don't want to complain, but today's playwrights aren't making it easy for reviewers. Some of the current crop have embraced storytelling with a vengeance, packing their dramas with so many plot twists and brazen fakeouts that it was ...
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Theatre in Review: Allegiance (Longacre Theatre)
There are a few things that don't quite work -- and a couple that are flat-out wrong -- in Allegiance, but every time the show threatens to succumb to sentimentality or formulaic musical comedy gestures, it surprises with ...
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Theatre in Review: Hir (Playwrights Horizons)
Isaac Connor, the young protagonist of Hir, returns from a combat zone to find his family's home in a state of revolution. The tacky suburban California house where he grew up in is a state of epic disarray. "We were getting ...
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Theatre in Review: Thérèse Raquin (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
I've never been so grateful for a murder; when the title character of the new play at Studio 54 gets down to the business of aiding and abetting her lover in killing her husband, a very sleepy production finally acquires a bit of energy. ...
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Theatre in Review: Cuckooed (59E59)
A strange tale of personal betrayal is brought to light in Cuckooed. Mark Thomas, the piece's writer and star, is a British standup comic, documentarian, prankster, and social activist -- a kind of UK version of ...
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Theatre in Review: Dear Elizabeth (The Women's Project)
In her notes for Dear Elizabeth, her distillation of the correspondence between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, the playwright, Sarah Ruhl, says, "Reading these eight hundred pages -- these ...
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Theatre in Review: Dead and Breathing (National Black Theatre)
Dead and Breathing begins with Carolyn, who is in her late sixties and ailing, being given a bath by Veronika, her home nurse. Veronika is chatting up a storm, to little response. But, when Veronika goes to answer the door, ...
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Theatre in Review: Ripcord (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
Is it elder abuse when the elders are doing the abusing? That's the question that occurred to me while watching Ripcord. David Lindsay-Abaire's new play has been designed as a challenge match for a pair of leading ...
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Theatre in Review: Sylvia (Cort Theatre)
In Sylvia, A.R. Gurney explores the eternal triangle: man, woman, and dog. A domestic farce about a Manhattanite who solves his midlife crisis by bonding with the rambunctious stray pooch he finds wandering in Central ...
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Theatre in Review: The Humans (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
The playwright Stephen Karam is gifted with remarkable depth of vision; nothing his characters do is lost on him. Even the tiniest interactions among the family members convened for his drama The Humans reveal the vast ...
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Theatre in Review: Songbird (59E59)
Songbird kicks off on the highest of notes, as Kate Baldwin, as aspiring singer Tammy Trip, delivers a powerfully rueful ballad titled "Small Town Heart." ("Gonna keep on driving put the pedal to the floor / Gonna keep ...
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Theatre in Review: The Hummingbird's Tour (Theatre at St. Clement's)
If someone could accurately predict the exact date of your death, would you to want to know it? This extremely silly question is considered in lackadaisical fashion in The Hummingbird's Tour. Playwright Margaret Dulaney ...
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