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  Theatre in Review: Romeo and Juliet (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theatre)
This new Romeo and Juliet is a good example of the strengths of Shakespeare in the Park productions and the weaknesses of some Public Theater offerings. The good news: Saheem Ali's staging is clean and swiftly paced. ...
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Theatre in Review: David Copperfield (Guildford Shakespeare Company/59E59)
Abigail Pickard Price seems to have a novel turn of mind, having previously been associated with stage adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Prince and the Pauper, and Graham ...
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Theatre in Review: The Maids (Donmar Warehouse at St. Ann's Warehouse)
Kip Williams and Jean Genet are a match made in hell. And I mean that in the nicest way.
These days, the theatre is loaded with directors who apply certain ideas to each of their projects with an almost maniacal single ...
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Theatre in Review: Small (Pershing Square Signature Center)
One of the many remarkable things about Small is that it features several sequences that should only work on film, yet they generate pulse-pounding excitement. Robert Montano's solo memoir recalls a youth spent at the ...
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Theatre in Review: North Star (Irish Arts Center)
The Irish Arts Center's latest presentation is one of its most eccentric: North Star is a kind of themed concert, featuring music, poetry, and video sequences, tied to the little-known historical fact -- at least to me -- ...
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Theatre in Review: A Woman Among Women (LCT3)
In A Woman Among Women, tragedy unfolds in a backyard with a clockwork precision not seen since...well, since Arthur Miller turned off his typewriter. There's a reason for that.
The backyard, in Northampton, Massachusetts, ...
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Theatre in Review: Girl, Interrupted (Public Theater)
It must have looked good on paper: provocative source material, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Martyna Majok), an iconic alt-rock songwriter (Aimee Mann), and a leading director (Jo Bonney). But this ...
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Theatre in Review: Jerome (Playwrights Horizons)
The problem with dramas about three-way relationships is that the math never works out. Last season's Danger and Opportunity and 2017's Afterglow both take forever to reach the obvious conclusion that, in a triangular ...
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Theatre in Review: Girls Girls, Chance Chance, Music Music (Vineyard Theatre)
About halfway through, the always-intriguing Girls Girls, Chance Chance, Music Music arrives at a moment of pure bliss. The characters are enrolled in a summer music program for adolescent girls in the Bay Area, and, until ...
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Theatre in Review: The Emporium (Classic Stage Company)
When famous writers become industries, the temptation is overwhelming to make use of every last word they ever wrote. (In my college days, if somebody found a cocktail napkin with jottings by Fitzgerald or Hemingway, it found its way to a ...
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Theatre in Review: Obit (East Village Basement)
The last time I was in East Village Basement, the Ninth Street townhouse that has become a hive of theatrical activity, it was all dressed up for the chic throuple drama Danger and Opportunity. The look is utterly different these ...
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Theatre in Review: Lauder: Scotland's Kilted King of Broadway (59E59)
The title of this charming and informative entertainment is a misnomer: Harry Lauder appeared on Broadway only once and briefly, although he did tour America on occasion. By then, such was his fame that he traveled on his own train, "the ...
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Theatre in Review: Animal Wisdom (Signature Theatre Company)
For an hour or so the other day, I thought I might finally be converted to the Christian cult. I refer, of course, to Heather Christian, the composer and librettist who has been acclaimed for Oratorio for Living Things and ...
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Theatre in Review: Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater)
Indian Princesses is based on a bizarre cultural detail, and Eliana Theologides Rodriguez knows whereof she writes. The YMCA-sponsored Indian Princesses program was designed to promote father-daughter bonding via a ...
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Theatre in Review: Cable Street (Brits Off Broadway/59E59)
Cable Street is a fascinating story told uncertainly and in less-than-ideal circumstances. The new musical -- book by Alex Kanefsky, music and lyrics by Tim Gilvan, cries out for epic treatment. Set mostly in ...
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Theatre in Review: Well, I'll Let You Go (Studio Seaview)
In Well, I'll Let You Go, Quincy Tyler Bernstine is Maggie, whose only defense against tragedy is the endless cups of coffee she serves to a series of interlopers seeking to console, advise, or obtain absolution from ...
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Theatre in Review: The Receptionist (Second Stage/Pershing Square Signature Center)
If the acting thing ever dries up for Katie Finneran, she has a fine career ahead in office management. As Bevely, the title character of Adam Bock's American horror story, she is so much more than her job description: She ...
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Theatre in Review: Othello (Bedlam/West End Theatre)
I know the fashion is for stripped-down productions of classic plays, but Bedlam's take on Othello is so bare bones as to be positively nude. The set, by director/cast member Eric Tucker, consists of a white wall on ...
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Theatre in Review: The Lost Boys (Palace Theatre)
I think I can safely say that The Lost Boys is the best vampire musical New York has ever seen. This is the backhanded compliment of the decade, of course, but compared to Dracula, the Musical; Dance of the Vampires< ...
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Theatre in Review: 73 Seconds (En Garde Arts)
Just in time for Mother's Day, we're getting a matched set of shows in which middle-aged playwrights brace themselves for the loss of their beloved mothers. Trouble is, they seem more worried about themselves than the ladies in question. ...
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