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Some Men is a generally enjoyable journey through the gay experience over the last eight decades, even if it can hardly be tagged as a sort of all-in-one gay version of August Wilson's powerful ten-play cycle about African-Americans.
It's not the most engaging of productions, but Greek theater performed with large Japanese puppets is enough of a rarity for this not to stand in the way of its attracting an audience.
For his many ardent fans, any attempt to bring his words back to the stage spoken by others may sound like heresy but even purists have been moved by Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, the…
As we have come to expect in a Wilson play, there are disruptive characters who add dimension and complexity to the situation, each one blessed with the gift of highly intensified vividly ar…
David Bradley is best known to cinema audiences for his portrayal of Filch the School caretaker in the Harry Potter films. What director Jamie Lloyd has given us is probably the clearest, mo…
Though the advance promotional materials describe Lee Thuna's Fugue as a comedic drama, this is a far cry from what most people think of as a comedy.
If Charles Busch hadn't gone mainstream with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and were still acting in his own shows as a drag diva, he would have been a great Laura Keene.
Performed in an impressive range of eight different languages, exotic Asian music and acrobatic skills, this production certainly catches the magical otherworldliness of one of Shakespeare's…
Moira Buffini's free adaptation of the play, renamed Dying For It, preserves its subversive qualities, while giving full rein to its wonderfully surreal humour.
This new work from Lucy Thurber features interesting characters and plenty of weighty ideas. Though it has an admirable poetic, otherworldly quality, it isn't as moving, or convincing as it …
David Lindsay-Abaire's lament, Rabbit Hole, now in a well- wrought Midwest premiere at Goodman Theatre, is a sober-sided and contagiously compassionate look at a harm beyond closure.
Crimp's plays are often described as being very European due to their elliptical construction. They are demanding of the audience because they only show a framework of ideas not the complete…
It's worth noting that, unlike a lot of shows attended by many small children, I didn't hear a peep or note signs of restlessness even from pre-schoolers at the Saturday matinee I attended.
I wouldn't be misleading you if I told you that Jack Goes Boating is a present day screwball romantic comedy.
Tall Grass is a series of three one-acts, unrelated in theme or character.
What was shocking in 1953 became less and less so over the years. So why try to revive this over fifty year old play? Because it is exactly this sort of seemingly dated play, like The Voice …
This could be powerful and multidimensional, playing with reality even as it examines ideas about sexuality and accountability. Unfortunately, it's an unstructured, inchoate piece about sexu…
There's a good chance that he would appreciate Ron Russell and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.'s concept for bringing Widowers' Houses into the twenty-first century. However, I'm not sure if he woul…
Even though Bogosian's dialogue still bristles with incisive wit and there are still plenty of media people who build a large fan base by being nasty, it's Liev Schreiber's Barry Champlain w…
In this era when "the unique theatrical experience" is becoming the norm, there isn't much point in wondering what on earth is going on within the Union Square Theatre. What is going on is a…
The performances are what makes this play worthwhile. All three are so real that if I met them in the street tomorrow, I would think they were Ann, Patrick and Dave.
In Sean Holmes' production, Robert Lindsay plays Archie Rice. Lindsay has the background to manage the song and dance routines and his performance is very credible as the man whose career is…
If the rush of folks from seven to seventy-plus at Saturday's matinee of the New York City Opera-Glimmerglass co-production of Pirates is any indication, it's a good thing the swashbuckling …
Fraught with melodramatic situations, metaphysical implications, and mystical intimations King Hedley II is an often mystifying mix of symbolism and realism. At the same time, it offers a po…
If you think you're too old for fairy tales, I recommend an immediate trip to the American Airlines Theater to see the Roundabout's revival of Craig Lucas's irresistible Prelude to a Kiss.
