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  Theatre in Review: Rocket to the Moon (Peccadillo Theater Company/Theatre at St. Clement's)
The presence of a young, pretty assistant lays bare a host of discontents, not all of them erotic, in a Manhattan dentist's office in Rocket to the Moon. Like The Big Knife, this 1938 drama is one of Clifford Odets
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Theatre in Review: The Insurgents (Labyrinth Theater Company/Bank Street Theater)
The Insurgents begins with Cassie Beck, who plays Sally, the central character of Lucy Thurber's new play, entering, introducing herself, and, in her best giggly, I'm-just-a-girl manner, informing us that the ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Underground)
Little Children Dream of God begins with a very, very pregnant woman floating on a tire in the middle of the ocean. A refugee from Haiti, she soon turns up at a downmarket apartment house in Miami. Her name is Sula and she ...
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Theatre in Review: Churchill (New World Stages)
If you don't have plans to visit Blenheim Castle or the War Rooms in London, I suppose you could drop in on Churchill. This solo outing, adapted and performed by Ronald Keaton, offers a fast, painless tour through the ...
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Theatre in Review: Hamilton (The Public Theater)
I admit it: When I first heard that Lin-Manuel Miranda had written a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, I immediately thought of the unintentionally hilarious 1981 flop Marlowe, a rock musical about the Elizabethan ...
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Theatre in Review: The Lion (Lynn Redgrave Theater)
The Lion achieves its remarkable emotional pull with the minimum number of elements: a simple set, nice lighting, half a dozen guitars, and a single bared soul. The latter belongs to Benjamin Scheuer, who, casually, as ...
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Theatre in Review: The Subtle Body (Gold No Trade/59E59)
Unless you are extremely well versed in the medical history of the 18th century, you are probably unaware of John Floyer, the protagonist of The Subtle Body, a play that has the odd distinction of being one of the most ...
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Theatre in Review: The Events (New York Theatre Workshop)
Several years ago, New York Theatre Workshop presented Columbinus, a documentary play about the notorious Colorado school shooting, which some reviewers found to be exploitative, an unnecessary wallow in grim details. Now NYTW ...
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Theatre in Review: Everything You Touch (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Everything You Touch opens on an attention-getting note with a fashion show set in 1974. The clothes are hilariously high concept, featuring provocatively skimpy outfits topped with towering headgear; there isn't a single ...
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Theatre in Review: Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group/Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center)
It is no exaggeration to say that Rasheeda Speaking is the trickiest new play in town. Looked at one way, it's the story of a small, rather squalid, human resources issue in a doctor's office. If that sounds a little dull, ...
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Theatre in Review: City Of (The Playwrights Realm/Peter Jay Sharp Theater)
The above title refers to Paris, which one of the characters in Anton Dudley's play calls the "city of tangible dreaming." And what dreaming -- this is a Paris where garrulous gargoyles buddy up with ravenous pigeons, where sewer ...
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Theatre in Review: Application Pending (Westside Theatre)
I don't know about that Christina Bianco. She can't be flesh and blood, can she? Mercury is more like it. If you've ever seen her on the Internet, shifting identities a couple of dozen times during the course of a four-minute song, ...
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Theatre in Review: Pretty Filthy (The Civilians/Abrons Art Center)
The intrepid members of The Civilians are once again practicing their own inimitable form of anthropology. Having reported on life in the ultra-Christian city of Colorado Springs, explored the politics of gentrification in Brooklyn, and ...
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Theatre in Review: Snow Orchid (Miranda Theatre Company/Theatre Row)
Late in the second act of Snow Orchid, two no-holds-barred parent-child confrontations make a sleeping play leap to savage, scalding life. Sebbie (short for Sebastiano), the elder son in a titanically troubled family, ...
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Theatre in Review: Shesh Yak (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/LaiLou Productions)
Shesh Yak begins in 2010, as the Syrian people are beginning to rise up against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Jameel, a youngish Syrian now living in New York, greets his guest, Haytham, one of his countrymen, who lives in ...
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Theatre in Review: Texas in Paris (York Theatre Company)
Lillias White and Scott Wakefield make an ideal team: He warms up the room and she brings down the house.
As John Burrus, a middle-aged Texas horse wrangler who never sang professionally until he finds himself ...
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Theatre in Review: Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/St. Ann's Warehouse)
It's been a long time since the theatre has produced as fragrant and seductive a flower of evil as Let the Right One In, a romance of adolescence and the undead that fascinates, disturbs, and at least once will have you ...
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Theatre in Review: The Road to Damascus (The Directors Company/59E59)
Tom Dulack's play begins with a terrorist bomb exploding near Rockefeller Center, a discomfiting thought for audiences at nearby 59E59. Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the idea of such events is still chilling, but everyone ...
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Theatre in Review: A Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company)
The lights come up on a classic tableau from Russian drama: a hot summer's day, with a gaggle of landed gentry lying around, doing nothing much, complaining of the boredom. It soon becomes obvious that any feelings of love -- or what ...
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Theatre in Review: Into the Woods (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
For nearly a quarter of a century -- trace this phenomenon back to the 1992 revival of The Most Happy Fella -- the idea has been going around that you can cut down any big Broadway musical to a half-size cast and a piano or two and ...
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