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  Theatre in Review: Shadowland (Pilobolus/NYU Skirball Center)
You don't find many -- or any -- dance reviews in this column, but, for sheer mastery of a specific stage effect, Shadowland is hard to beat. 80-minute piece, created by Steven Banks, Robby Barnett, Renée ...
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Theatre in Review: The Illusionists: Live on Broadway (Neil Simon Theatre)
For the second holiday season, Broadway is hosting this package of magic acts. Both a varied lot and a mixed bag, The Illusionists opens a window on how different artists approach their craft in the post-Siegfried and Roy ...
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Theatre in Review: Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
The topics du jour, gay marriage and parenting and their discontents, get their latest workout in Peter Parnell's new play -- and you can't accuse him of not treating them with the seriousness and respect they deserve. While Mark Gerrard's ...
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Theatre in Review: Incident at Vichy (Signature Theatre)
In Incident at Vichy, the simple act of waiting becomes an exercise in terror. The setting of Arthur Miller's most intensely concentrated drama is "a place of detention" in the title city, the center of ...
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Theatre in Review: Nora (La Femme Theatre Productions/Cherry Lane Theatre)
In the end, it's the names attached to Nora that deceive. The prospect of seeing Ingmar Bergman's take on A Doll's House may raise unreasonable expectations: Surely the greatest Scandiniavian theatre and cinema ...
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Theatre in Review: The Eternal Space (Theatre Row)
In case you were wondering, a picture really is better than a thousand words; at least, that's the case with The Eternal Space. The playwright, Justin Rivers, has focused on one of the great architectural crimes of the ...
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Theatre in Review: Promising (InProximity Theatre Company/Theatre Row)
Promising isn't; Michelle Elliot's new play takes what should be a sure-fire dramatic situation -- a New York city political sex scandal -- and fritters it away in an endless series of conversation. We are in the ...
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Theatre in Review: Steve (The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center)
No flies on our playwrights: Only a few months since marriage equality has become the law of the land, we have two new plays, opening within ten days of each other, about what happens when the marriage battle is won, and gays and lesbians ...
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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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