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  Theatre in Review: Most Dangerous Man in America (W.E.B. Du Bois)(New Federal Theatre/Castillo Theatre)
Most Dangerous Man in America is the second play in two seasons that New Federal Theatre has produced about the scholar and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois; perhaps on the third try the results will be a little less ...
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Theatre in Review: 10 out of 12 (Soho Rep)
10 out of 12, a funny, imaginative, and thoroughly original comedy about the travails of theatre people, comes roaring to life near the end of the first act, when Thomas Jay Ryan takes the stage as Paul, the most ...
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Theatre in Review: In My Father's Words (Brits Off Broadway/59E59)
In My Father's Words is both the story of a fractured family and a dramatic Tower of Babel; nearly everybody in it needs a translator to be understood. It's a striking metaphor for the problems of loving, of getting past the ...
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Theatre in Review: Cuddles (Brits Off Broadway/59E59)
The things one learns at the theatre: Having seen Cuddles, I now realize that, if you are getting serious about your boyfriend, don't bring him to the home where your vampire sister is locked in the attic. She'll only make ...
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Theatre in Review: Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
Daniel Talbott's new play, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait, begins in darkness, with a Serbian woman describing, in both English and Serbian, how she was raped by a group of soldiers -- and, after that, it really ...
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Theatre in Review: The 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays: Series B (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
After getting off to a fast start with Series A, this year's EST one-act marathon gets stuck in neutral with Series B. Only two of the quartet of plays on offer prove engaging, and each of them could use a second look. ...
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Theatre in Review: An Act of God (Studio 54)
Jean Kerr, possibly reacting to Archibald MacLeish's J.B., once noted -- I'm paraphrasing slightly -- that, no offense intended, but for all practical purposes, in the theatre, God is a lousy part. Having seen An Act of God, I'm not ...
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Theatre in Review: Ever After (Paper Mill Playhouse)
In a world filled with reimaginings, reboots, and revisals, is there really room for yet another take on the Cinderella story? Ever After has been in development for years, so its creators cannot be entirely happy to ...
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Theatre in Review: Composition...Master-Pieces...Identity (Target Margin Theatre/Connelly Theatre)
As part of its celebration of Gertrude Stein, Target Margin is presenting David Greenspan in an evening of the author's lesser-known writings. The bill includes "Composition as Explanation," a lecture given at the Cambridge ...
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Theatre in Review: The Spoils (The New Group/Pershing Square Signature Center)
Will there ever come a time when Jesse Eisenberg doesn't cast himself as a basket case? Maybe so, but right now there's The Spoils, which adds the most etched-in-acid portrait yet to his gallery of hapless, hopeless ...
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Theatre in Review: Permission (MCC Theater/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Robert Askins continues his one-man comic crusade against the excesses of evangelical Christian culture in Permission. This time, the author of Hand to God takes on CDD, or Christian Domestic Discipline, a ...
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Theatre in Review: A Queen for a Day (Theatre at St. Clement's)
Playwright Michael Ricigliano, Jr., really knows how to write a crackling confrontation, and, before it trails off into potboiler territory, A Queen for a Day is a sadistic psychological battle that will keep you in a ...
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Theatre in Review: Cagney (York Theatre Company)
These days, you don't have to be a star to have a vehicle -- at least, if you're willing to create it yourself. The actor Robert Creighton, having noticed his resemblance to James Cagney, was the driving force behind this ...
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Theatre in Review: Nice Girl (Labyrinth Theater Company/Bank Street Theater)
The nice girl of the title of Melissa Ross' new play is Josephine Rosen and, when we meet her, she seems living proof that nice girls finish last. In fact, her life is starting to look something like a prison sentence, with no time ...
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Theatre in Review: What I Did Last Summer (Pershing Square Signature Center)
World War II is drawing to a close, but the hostilities are just getting started in What I Did Last Summer. On one side is 14-year-old Charlie; on the other side is everybody else, a state of affairs that will be familiar to ...
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Theatre in Review: New Country (Cherry Lane Studio)
The title New Country seems to suggest that the play is a comment on the moral bankruptcy of the Nashville music industry, although it may be that I'm giving it too much credit. Not that it is the sort of play to inspire ...
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Theatre in Review: Tuesdays at Tesco's (59E59)
A grocery aisle becomes a block on the Via Dolorosa for the narrator and main character of Tuesdays at Tesco's. The title refers to the weekly ritual by which the middle-aged Pauline visits her widowed father, cleans his house, and ...
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Theatre in Review: The Way We Get By (Second Stage)
When did Neil LaBute become a romantic? It's certainly true that, in the last few years -- probably since Reasons to Be Pretty, in 2008 -- a new warmth has steadily crept into his writing, along with a diminished interest in ...
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Theatre in Review: The 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays -- Series A (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
Musical theatre invades EST's one-act marathon, with two of the five entries in Series A relying on song and dance. The program's highlight is the opener, I Battled Lenny Ross. Ross was a child prodigy who, in ...
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Theatre in Review: Don Juan (Pearl Theatre Company)
Considering that his name has become a symbol for womanizers everywhere, it's a little surprising that we don't see more productions of Don Juan. Perhaps it's because Mozart has superseded Molière in the popular imagination. ...
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