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  Theatre in Review: The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (Signature Theatre)
A large boulder occupies stage center of Christopher H. Barreca's set, and it is just about the only thing in Athol Fugard's new drama that remains untouched by the relentless march of time. The play's title refers to the ...
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Theatre in Review: Search: Paul Clayton, The Man Who Loved Bob Dylan (Triad Theatre)
A forgotten piece of modern musical history is unearthed in Larry Mollin's new play. Today, Paul Clayton is probably known to only a handful of enthusiasts, but in the 1950s he was one of the leaders of the folk song pack. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Duchamp Syndrome (The Play Company/Piedad Teatro)
"Originality is overrated," says Tony, one of the creatures running around in The Duchamp Syndrome, but Antonio Vega's play is its own best refutation of that argument. I think I can safely guarantee that you've never ...
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Theatre in Review: One Hand Clapping (House of Orphans/59E59)
One Hand Clapping is the title of Lucia Cox's play, adapted from a novel by Anthony Burgess; it is also the title of a West End play attended by Howard and Janet Shirley, characters invented by Burgess. "It's ...
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Theatre in Review: Forever (New York Theatre Workshop)
Forever begins with Dael Orlandersmith making a pilgrimage to the famous Paris cemetery Père Lachaise. Clearly, not the Eiffel Tower - Louvre tourist type, she has come to commune with the spirits of the many great ...
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Theatre in Review: Cool Hand Luke (Godlight Theatre Company/59E59)
The talented people at Godlight Theatre Company don't merely adapt novels to the stage; they take a book, boil it down to its essence, and reimagine it in strikingly theatrical terms. There's nothing fussy or overly literary about this ...
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Theatre in Review: ToasT (The Public Theater)
Playwright Lemon Andersen's poetic drama is set in the days leading up to the Attica prison riots in 1971, days that he fills with lively, if sometimes opaque, conversation. Andersen is a spoken word artist -- the Public presented ...
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Theatre in Review: Dinner With the Boys (Theatre Row)
The new season is but days old and already we have a contender for the most indescribable offering of the year. The jaw-dropper in question is Dinner With the Boys, in which Dan Lauria, a fine character actor, turns ...
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Theatre in Review: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Red Bull Theater/The Duke n 42nd Street)
"That marriage seldom's good/Where the bride banquet so begins in blood." In summing up John Ford's blood-soaked tragedy, you can't do much better than to quote from the text itself. Even among the Jacobean playwrights, whose frank ...
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Theatre in Review: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Fiasco Theater/Theatre for a New Audience)
With its compact, intimate staging, Fiasco Theater has managed the near-impossible: The company has rescued The Two Gentleman of Verona.
At the intermission of the performance I attended, the woman sitting next to me said to her ...
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Theatre in Review: The Visit (Lyceum Theatre)
We've seen Chita Rivera enliven so many musicals with her firecracker personality that it's remarkable to experience what she can achieve with her presence alone. Stillness -- alluring, malign, and carrying a hint of brimstone -- is ...
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Theatre in Review: Something Rotten! (St. James Theatre)
We've all heard of shows that peak too early, but never so soon as the middle of the first act -- yet that's the dubious new record set by Something Rotten!. We have already been presented with Nick and Nigel Bottom, ...
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Theatre in Review: Trash Cuisine (Belarus Free Theatre/La MaMa)
The human impulse to treat other living things as objects to be destroyed is explored with blazing clarity in Trash Cuisine Using a combination of movement, personal testimony, and pitch black comedy employing food as a ...
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Theatre in Review: Fun Home (Circle in the Square Theatre)
About halfway through Fun Home, Alison, the narrator, tells it to us straight: "I leapt out of the closet -- and four months later my father killed himself by stepping in front of a truck." Musicals don't come more honest, or ...
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Theatre in Review: Airline Highway (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
In Airline Highway, playwright Lisa D'Amour invents an entire tribe of losers, New Orleans-style, and scatters them about the stage like so many colorful Mardi Gras beads. They include Sissy Na Na, a black drag queen ...
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Theatre in Review: Grounded (The Public Theater)
Anyone who reads Lighting&Sound America knows about the enormous advances that have been made in video technology. Projectors become brighter by the month. LED screens offer higher and higher resolutions. Pixel-mapping allows one to ...
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Theatre in Review: Living on Love (Longacre Theatre)
We're doing a lot of time traveling on Broadway these days. Last week, It Shoulda Been You hearkened back to the '60s, the last days of the sex comedy. Now comes Living on Love, which wants to take us back to the ...
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Theatre in Review: The King and I (Lincoln Center Theater)
In the current issue of Lincoln Center Theater Review, Sandy Kennedy, who appeared in the original production of The King and I, says that Rodgers and Hammerstein "were afraid it was going to be a bomb and everybody ...
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Theatre in Review: The Belle of Belfast (Irish Repertory Theatre)
If nothing else, The Belle of Belfast makes one thing clear: If you're going to make a play for the one you love, the confessional booth is probably not the place to do it. The title character of Nate Rufus Edelman's ...
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Theatre in Review: It Shoulda Been You (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
Stepping into the Brooks Atkinson the other night, I may as well have been stepping into a time machine. It Shoulda Been You, a musical farce about a wedding gone wrong, strikes me as nothing less than a trip back to those ...
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