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  Theatre in Review: You and I (Metropolitan Playhouse)
For its new production, Metropolitan Playhouse, that dealer in theatrical rarities, has dug deeply into the vault of long-unseen works to find Philip Barry's debut play. Barry went on to become one of Broadway's most confident ...
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Theatre in Review: Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project)
The title character of Uncle Vanya is one of drama's great complainers -- for good reason; he has plenty to stew over, and in Richard Nelson's new production, he is a true evangelist of the gospel of dissatisfaction. ...
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Theatre in Review: Agnes (Lesser America/59E59)
In Catya McMullen's comic drama, the hurricane raging outside a New York apartment is nearly matched by the emotional storms set loose inside. At first glance, Agnes looks like an unremarkable genre piece about a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Naturalists (Pond Theatre Company/Walkerspace)
The Naturalists introduces us to Jaki McCarrick, whom we will surely be hearing from again, such is her gift for singular, sharply drawn characters and dialogue with a touch of the lyric about it. (The Pond Theatre ...
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Theatre in Review: Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (MCC Theater/Lucille Lortel Theatre)
The limitations of our database prevent me from listing this play's full title in our headline slot. The unexpurgated version is Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; In Essence, a Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do ...
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Theatre in Review: Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical Group/Theatre Row)
Heartbreak House is a decaying country manse where the willful members of the Shotover family take part in shameless intrigues, violating social norms and behaving in a beastly manner to their put-upon guests while remaining ...
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Theatre in Review: Separate and Equal (59E59)
In Separate and Equal, a pickup basketball game becomes a proxy war in the fractured, fractious state of race relations in Birmingham, Alabama, 1951. Seth Panitch, who is responsible for both the script and its ...
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Theatre in Review: Private Peaceful (TBG Mainstage)
Joey, the title character of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse, is fed into the vortex of World War I, left to wander a wasteland of death and destruction. Tommo, the soldier protagonist of Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, ...
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Theatre in Review: Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin (59E59)
An American icon is discovered in splendid isolation in Hershey Felder's latest exercise in musical history. (For those of you coming in late, Felder -- an actor, pianist, and composer -- has pioneered his own genre of solo ...
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Theatre in Review: Scraps (The Flea Theater)
This mishmash of scenes and styles serves up dramatic scraps in its search for the right format to dramatize the aftermath of a young black man's unmotivated killing at the hands of a white cop. The playwright, Geraldine Inoa, ...
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Theatre in Review: 1969: The Second Man (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop)
For this eccentric late-summer musical entertainment, Jacob Brandt, conceiver of 1969: The Second Man, draws our attention to the life of an American semi-hero, Buzz Aldrin. If that sounds a little cruel, ...
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Theatre in Review: Days to Come (Mint Theater Company/Theatre Row)
Days to Come isn't a very good play, and I'm awfully glad that the Mint is presenting it. That's a contradiction, I know, but we're talking about Lillian Hellman, who for her seventy-nine years on this earth was a ...
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Theatre in Review: Pretty Woman (Nederlander Theatre)
The romance is off. I can't say I was a huge fan of the 1990 film Pretty Woman -- for me, romantic comedy died just after the release of The Philadelphia Story -- but the nascent star power of Julia Roberts and her chemistry ...
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Theatre in Review: Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company/ART New York Theatres)
The stage deck is painted red in NAATCO's two-part adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, and for good reason: In these plays, the very earth of Britain is repeatedly stained with blood. The action begins with the ...
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Theatre in Review: Gettin' the Band Back Together (Belasco Theatre)
I caught up with the new tenant at the Belasco rather after the fact, having been bumped from a performance last week due to an illness in the cast. Meanwhile, the press pretty much filleted Getting' the Band Back Together, ...
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Theatre in Review: Less Than 50% (59E59)
Less Than 50% is a play, by Gianmarco Soresi, an actor and comic, about the love affair of Gianmarco Soresi, an actor and comic, and Laura Catalano, an actress and his longtime creative partner. What unfolds in ...
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Theatre in Review: Be More Chill (Pershing Square Signature Center)
There's a genuine grass-roots musical-theatre event happening Off Broadway, and the big questions about Be More Chill are if it can transition from a boutique hit to a breakout success -- and if it deserves to do so. Neither ...
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Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts Series A (59E59)
The first entry in this long-running festival of one-act plays could fairly be titled Summer Shorts: The Men Are Scum Edition, so thoroughly does it inventory the seemingly natural depredations of the male sex. Abby Rosebrock ...
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Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts Series B (59E59)
It takes an old pro to redeem the second series of one-act plays currently being presented at 59E59. Series A features two awkward dramas about exploitative adulterous affairs, but it is Neil LaBute who gets it right with ...
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Theatre in Review: The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop)
The plays of Marcus Gardley are notable for a keen sense of drama wedded to a rather florid theatricality, and there's no getting around the fact that the latter sometimes undermines the former. He has emerged as a distinctive ...
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