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  Theatre in Review: Travels With My Aunt (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
For an exotic excursion laced with humor and menace, you could do far, far worse than Travels With My Aunt. Giles Havergal's adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling novel, published in 1969. It's the story of Henry ...
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Theatre in Review: Dames at Sea (Helen Hayes Theatre)
How times have changed: Wasn't it only a little while ago that Broadway musicals were being dismissed as hopelessly retro? (The currently running Something Rotten! continues to spread this canard, presenting musical theatre as a ...
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Theatre in Review: Empanada Loca (Labyrinth Theater Company/Bank Street Theater)
It's the season for ghoulish fun, and if you're looking for a bedtime story guaranteed to keep you up, shuddering, far into the night, Empanada Loca is the show for you. Aaron Mark's one-person drama is, according to ...
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Theatre in Review: First Daughter Suite (The Public Theater)
Barbara Bush as a tragic heroine? You didn't see that one coming, did you? It's only one of many surprises to be found in First Daughter Suite, a wildly uneven, but often striking and surprisingly moving, quartet of ...
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Theatre in Review: Futurity (Soho Rep and Ars Nova/Connelly Theater)
Progress is a slippery, slippery thing: We want to believe in it, no matter how many times we've been disappointed. No matter how terrible things may be, we always want to believe that the next thinker, philosophy, or technological ...
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Theatre in Review: Last Call (terraNOVA Collective and IRT Theater)
Last Call begins on a disconcerting, almost frightening note. We are at the IRT to see Terri Girvin's one-person show about the life of a New York City bartender. Imagine the horror, then, when a woman roller skates on ...
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Theatre in Review: Eclipsed (The Public Theater)
Considering that it stuffed full of horrors, Eclipsed doesn't rub our faces in gratuitous violence or brutality. That's because the playwright, Danai Gurira, understands that a simple, unsensational statement of the ...
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Theatre in Review: Hard Love (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
The Actors Company Theatre, which typically specializes in revivals of notable works of the past, introduces us to a fresh face in the contemporary Israeli playwright Motti Lerner, who in turn focuses on a subject rarely seen on the ...
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Theatre in Review: Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Underground)
We've known for years that Mamie Gummer is a good actress; now we know that she is a fearless one. She's the first thing we see in Ugly Lies the Bone, her face obscured by a virtual reality device. Then she takes it ...
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Theatre in Review: Rothschild & Sons (York Theatre Company)
Over the years, The 1970 Broadway musical The Rothschilds has been probed, poked, edited, amended, pulled apart, and put back together. A not-quite-hit in its time, it was tried in a smaller, Off Broadway production and subsequently ...
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Theatre in Review: Perfect Arrangement (Primary Stages/The Duke on 42nd Street)
The arrangement alluded to in the title of Topher Payne's new play may or may not be perfect, but it certainly is more than a little seamy. When the lights come up on aggressively stylish Populuxe living room designed by Neil ...
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Theatre in Review: Clever Little Lies (Westside Theatre/Upstairs)
Can't somebody put together a committee to find a good vehicle for Marlo Thomas? I'd volunteer to take part. Even in Clever Little Lies, which resembles something hidden far back in one of Neil Simon's desk drawers, she is ...
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Theatre in Review: The Gin Game (Golden Theatre)
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson are giving such confident, entertaining performances at the Golden these nights, not until very late does it becomes apparent that they are not really playing The Gin Game. Each ...
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Theatre in Review: Student Body (The Flea Theater)
It's a Friday night in winter, during finals, at a small college in the middle of nowhere. A snowstorm threatens. Ten friends meet on the stage of the school's theatre, where the set for the next production is only partly built. The stage ...
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Theatre in Review: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (One Year Lease Theater Company/59E59)
It's probably safe to say that you've never before seen a play narrated by a smartphone, a gap that is now neatly filled by Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. In addition to its storytelling function, the phone, an Android, is ...
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Theatre in Review: Fool for Love (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
The Furies are unleashed in a rundown desert motel in Fool for Love, aided and abetted by the stunning performances of Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell. The seedy, barely furnished room -- a solid achievement by the ...
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Theatre in Review: Barbecue (The Public Theater)
You don't really need to know my problems, but it was just a little while ago that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria had many in the theatre press scratching their heads, trying to figure out exactly what could be revealed about a play ...
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Theatre in Review: Sisters' Follies: Between Two Worlds (Abrons Arts Center)
Just about every theatre of a certain age claims to have a ghost -- and why not? When you think of all the emotional energy spent in such spaces down the years, it would be more surprising if they weren't somehow haunted. (I even know ...
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Theatre in Review: Old Times (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
Memory is both a weapon and a trap in Harold Pinter's Old Times, which is being presented in a production that, paradoxically, both supports and sabotages the author's enigmatic, yet highly dramatic, text. The good news first ...
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Theatre in Review: Cloud Nine (Atlantic Theater Company)
How is it that New York has not seen Cloud Nine in more than 30 years? It was an Off Broadway blockbuster, running 971 performances in the early 1980s, establishing Caryl Churchill as a playwright to contend with it, ...
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