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  Theatre in Review: A Delicate Balance (Golden Theatre)
Despite the title, there's nothing delicate about A Delicate Balance; the words on the program, "by Edward Albee," should put an end to that notion. Once again, the playwright has assembled a crowd of well-spoken, well ...
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Theatre in Review: Titus Andronicus (New York Shakespeare Exchange/HERE)
If you're looking for a bone-rattling evening of horror, the company assembled by New York Shakespeare Exchange will keep you pinned to your seat with its trim and brutal staging of Titus Andronicus. ...
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Theatre in Review: Honeymoon in Vegas (Nederlander Theatre)
If we got shows like Honeymoon in Vegas on a regular basis -- say two or three times a year -- Broadway would be a far, far happier place. The time is always right for a high-style musical farce designed to send the audience ...
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Theatre in Review: Everybody Gets Cake! (Parallel Exit/59E59)
How to explain the torrent of gags, non sequiturs, and sheer madness otherwise known as Everybody Gets Cake!? Well, here goes: On a white set covered with enormous black arrows and loaded with doors of all sizes, a trio of ...
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Theatre in Review: Da (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Today's topic is the care and feeding of yesterday's blockbusters. I don't mean classics: Romeo and Juliet will survive, no matter what directors do to it. I'm talking about those hits that, now past the first flush of youth, need a ...
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Theatre in Review: Winners (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
Was it only last week that Kate Benson gave us a fresh twist on the dysfunctional family comedy in A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes? It's back to business as usual this week with Winne ...
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Theatre in Review: Constellations (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
If John Lennon were alive today, would he rename one of his songs, "Across the Multiverse"? Then again, if you subscribe to the central concept of Constellations, Lennon is still alive, somewhere, somehow. As Marianne, a ...
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Theatre in Review: Wiesenthal (Theatre Row)
Simon Wiesenthal led an exemplary life, one that intersected with some of the most terrible events of the 20th century. But is it the stuff of drama? Tom Dugan's new drama, Wiesenthal, leaves the question ...
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Theatre in Review: A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes
I like Kate Benson's mind, and if you've ever unwillingly attended a family event -- in other words, if you belong to the human race -- chances are you will, too. In A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of ...
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Theatre in Review: The Cardinals (Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater)
If you've been dying to see an ecclesiastical puppet show, then The Cardinals is the thing for you. If such words leave you bemused, consider yourself warned. This thoroughly original but only intermittently amusing ...
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Theatre in Review: Dying for It (Atlantic Theater)
"You can't tell that joke! Communism isn't funny!" So warns one of the characters in Dying for It. It's a line that resonates sadly with the career of Nikolai Erdman, the Soviet-era Russian playwright, whose 1928 farce ...
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Theatre in Review: Ike at Night (Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater)
We attend the Under the Radar Festival for glimpses of the future, intimations of where theatre may be headed next. Over the years, I have encountered confessional monologues, song cycles, acts of social criticism, and no-holds-barred ...
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Theatre in Review: Cineastas (Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater)
In the Argentine production Cineastas, life is an enormous Mobius strip of stories printed on celluloid, a reel of endlessly unspooling narratives. Near the beginning of Mariano Pensotti's intriguing puzzle box of a ...
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Theatre in Review: Winners and Losers (Soho Rep)
In Winners and Losers, Marcus Youssef and James Long play a game that they have invented. It has no particular structure or goal, consisting as it does entirely of back-and-forth commentary. That pretty much ...
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Theatre in Review: Beware of Young Girls: Kate Dimbleby Sings the Dory Previn Story (59E59)
Kate Dimbleby has done us a favor in highlighting the neglected song catalog of Dory Previn. Perhaps because she came into her own at a time - the early '70s - when distinctive singer/songwriters cropped up practically every ...
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Theatre in Review: Café Society Swing (59E59)
If you never had the chance to go slumming in Greenwich Village with high society swells, thrilling to Billie Holiday or the young Lena Horne -- and, really, who among us ever did? -- the next best thing is to check out Café Society ...
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Theatre in Review: Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons)
"It's sort of hard to know how to live nowadays, isn't it?" So says Eddie, the manager of the generic Olive Garden-style restaurant that is the setting for Pocatello, and he ought to know. Indeed, with its arbor of fake ...
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Theatre in Review: The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop)
Free market economics meets jihad in The Invisible Hand, a tense and thoroughly original political thriller from Ayad Akhtar. The author gives his ripped-from-the-headlines premise a novel twist that allows for scene ...
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Theatre in Review: The Elephant Man (Booth Theatre)
There are at least three moments in Scott Ellis' revival of The Elephant Man that are marked by the kind of silence that occurs only when an audience is listening, intently, with every ounce of its collective ...
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Theatre in Review: Send for the Million Men (HERE)
Send for the Million Men begins with a striking image of a young man playing catch with his father under rather unusual circumstances: He must toss the ball over a stone wall, where it is caught and thrown back; the two ...
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