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Lichtenstein's theme is encapsulated in the title. It illustrates how we tend to force painful memories into the deepest recesses of our minds and how burying or trying to revise those memor…
The eighty minute evening adapted by Dickstein from three sources - a story from Jhumpa Lahiri Pulitzer-prize winning collection The Interpreter of Maladies, Anton Chekhov's Betrothed and S.…
God's Ear is not for theater goers who prefer a linear, neatly told drama. Despite this caveat, the play's structure is both formal and ingenious.
Lansbury and Seldes are incapable of giving anything but master class performances, but, alas, Terrence McNally has written them a wilted bouquet of a play that validates the old poker expre…
Though not without a few dips and lags, The Receipt is decidedly weird and wonderful.
The show eschews lofty artistic merits for more audience-friendly and easily achieved goals — entertainment and human connection. The result adds up to ninety minutes of effortless ent…
While the almost three hours didn't exactly fly by for me, in today's economy ruled small cast theater, it's always a thrill to see this sort of grand staging - especially that curtain call …
Omigod, the girls aged thirteen and up couldn't care less about the opinions of theatrical pundits. They're like so totally tuned in to how co-ed Elle Wood (with a sly nod to fashion doyenne…
Smoke and Mirrors at the Flea treads a fine line - it tries to be soulless enough to accurately reflect the average American workplace, but sardonic enough that we can laugh at it. Often it …
With a new musical, LoveMusik, about Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya opening later this week on Broadway, the return of this poor cousin follow-up to Three Penny Opera is not only welcome but tim…
Nowadays vintage pieces are high priced collectors' treasures, so when Tomlinson first fell in love with a mixing bowl in an antique dealer's window, he became part of a whole universe of Fi…
An unexpectedly upbeat Galileo Galilei is at the center of the Wilma's bright and appealing production, which is more comfortable than might be anticipated - for a play by Bertolt Brecht.
Strong direction could make a big difference here. When the often clever script gets lost in its messy plotting (it often does), the lack of either irony or varied pacing in the staging prov…
I would have preferred to see Frost/Nixon in a smaller venue like the Donmar Warehouse where it originated. Yet there's something about a big theater that underscores the sense of watching a…
Not as well known on the Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional revival circuit, is S.N. Behrman, which prompts an instant hurrah for the Pearl Theatre Company for ending its 20th Century Ameri…
Bringing another director to the table gives us a chance to assess the durability of Teale's adaptation. Does her concept hold up without the Shared Experience context? Does her authorial cr…
In Morris Panych's The Dishwashers, events transpire in the basement dishwashing operation below an expensive restaurant.
An overheard exit remark by a boy of about twelve: "Awesome!" For once that overused adjective says it all.
With a title like The J.A.P. Show, don't expect its four-star cast of stand-up comediennes to abandon staple targets for Jewish comedy. And why should they?
With plays by David Rabe, Will Eno and Warren Leight, and the announced actors including the always marvelous Elizabeth Marvel, I went to Week B with high expectations. Unfortunately, this e…
Age has not blunted these three veterans' avid interest in the opposite sex. It's one of the traits that makes Gerald Sibleyras's Heroes, now at the Geffen Playhouse, quiver with laughter.
Why bring it back now? You need only look at the names above the program title: Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy. It's an irresistible pairing and no theatergoer who appreciates superio…
It's an intense psychodrama that won't let your mind wander even though there are times this story makes you wish you could switch channels.
The show's plot is more a Harlequin historical romance with music and dancing than the operatic musical it aims to be.
