Grim and no need to bear it BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Relentlessly downbeat British drama

Play time for kids -- and parents BY PETER FILICHIA

This week, the entire family can go to the theater, and the price is right

Paper Mill feels like home for composer BY PETER FILICHIA

Priceless BY PETER FILICHIA

'Temp' hovers in the low end BY PETER FILICHIA

Idiocy with ingenuity BY PETER FILICHIA

In this teachers' lounge, there's no break from head cases

Off-Broadway sampler opens with AA play BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Between the lines

Think you know your "Spelling Bee" from "Apple Tree"? Test your stage smarts with this wicked trivia quiz about the current attractions on Broadway.

The season's afoot by Michael Sommers

Our critic goes on the trail of the next knockout show

Coming to a theater near you BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Actor spins tales with style, charm BY PETER FILICHIA

Maybe Glynn Turman should change his name to Glynn Raconteur-man.

Welcome return BY STUART MILLER

Clothes make the musical BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

"Lots of battles and dancing is hard enough, but all the quick changes the actors make can destroy clothes even faster," says Martin Pakledinaz, costume designer for the new musical "The Pir…

Actress hopes 'Curtains' will stay up a long while BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

"It would be nice to be able to stay in town for a year with a long-running show," says Debra Monk. "Because I don't know what that's like."

Meet the conniving cast of 'Curtains' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Trenchant drama BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Revival shows its age yet still conveys war's horrors

Actor emerges from periods of eclipse BY PETER FILICHIA

'Movin' Man' tells of lengthy career that began as 'Raisin in the Sun' lad

A legend in her own mind BY PETER FILICHIA

Liz McCartney is working hard to sound terrible.

To kvetch, perchance to laugh BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

To riff off the title of somebody else's solo show, Jackie Hoffman's routine can basically be defined as "My Father's Dead, My Mother's Jewish & I'm in Show Business."

Busy actor makes his Broadway bow BY JENIFER D. BRAUN

'Salvage' wraps up Stoppard's 'Utopia' cycle by MICHAEL SOMMERS

While "Salvage" offers fewer visual opportunities than the others, director Jack O'Brien's superb staging remains as sure as ever.

Domestic dramatics dazzle in 'The Maids' BY PETER FILICHIA

Reflections in a public eye BY STUART MILLER

Writer Peter Morgan gets to the heart of historical figures

Hemming and snoring BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Play about fashion biz needs shortening

Defeated by 'Marat/Sade' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Harlem troupe deserves credit for tackling drama set in asylum