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Lessons From the Animal Kingdom By MARGO JEFFERSON
"Serenade" and "Philosopher Fox" are two fiercely witty animal fables by the Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek.
With Mom in a Coma, It's Time to Let the Old Woman Have It By JASON ZINOMAN
With this tongue-in-cheek comedy, Susan Austin Roth has written what feels like a rough draft with potential.
Longings and Betrayal Behind Viennese Facades By MIRIAM HORN
The Mint Theater's spare, lucid production of Arthur Schnitzler's 1904 play is a revelation.
You See That Stranger Over There? She's Your Mother By ANITA GATES
Kim Merrill's play takes you along on the roller-coaster ride of a woman about meet her biological mother for the first time.
Still Looking for Joy Under the Brooklyn Bridge By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The kickoff entry of the Encores! concert musicals series is splendidly sung and staged with evident care.
See the Idea. Hear the Idea. Steal the Idea. Sing About It! By MARGO JEFFERSON
A Heroine Who Embraced Reform (and Explosives) By NEIL GENZLINGER
Melody Cooper's play about the anarchist and labor reformer Lucy Parsons is unevenly paced and clumsily staged, but unlike other theatrical efforts associated with Black History Month, it is not hero worship.
An America of Love, Lies and Oligarchy By ANDREA STEVENS
Gordon Cox's satiric new play, a self-described "romantic comedy hijacked by a conspiracy thriller," falls victim to overearnest lecturing and a convoluted plot.
O My Ducats, O My Daughter, O My Sidekick By PHOEBE HOBAN
The most riveting lines in Gareth Armstrong's dissertation on one of Shaekspeare's most memorable characters belong to Shakespeare himself.
For a Maligned Soul, a Hint of Sympathy By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
In the Classical Theater of Harlem's powerful production of Chekhov's play, an intriguing balance arises between Lopakhin, the bourgeois former serf, and the aristocratic family whose fortunes are all but dried up.
The Doctor and Preacher, a Secret Exposed By NEIL GENZLINGER
The play about the lives of two secretly gay men as seen at the Abingdon Theater Arts Complex is artfully constructed and convincingly acted.
Warring Puppets Are Human, but Punches Continue to Roll By JASON ZINOMAN
Punch and Judy have been beating each other senseless for centuries as puppets, but two real-life actors do the quarreling in this rigorously performed modern update.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Princesses By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The Young Vic Theater Company of London presents a vigorously staged, grotesquely comic version of the familiar fairy tale at the New Victory Theater.
Disarming Fury and Self-Mocking Froth By ROBERT SIMONSON
In his latest solo piece, a disarmingly sweet 80-minute harangue, Mike Albo takes sharp aim at celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.
A Hero Lawyer, Villains and Bits of Old New York By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Entertainment in abundance radiates from the Peccadillo Theater Company's sparkling production of this 1931 drama by Elmer Rice.
Seeking Health Care but Finding Each Other By ANDREA STEVENS
There is plenty in the Keen Company's production of John Belluso's "Pyretown" that resonates, but particularly toward the end, it is more lecture than play.
Patient-Analyst at the Dawn of the Psychoanalytic Age By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Primary Stages' revival of Willy Holtzman's play is an engrossing look at the history of Sabina Spielrein's relationships with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
To Everything There Is a Purpose By BEN BRANTLEY
Even those who believe everything on this planet is here for a purpose may at first have trouble justifying the existence of "Good Vibrations," the singing headache that opened last night at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.
School Days, Rule Days: What Went Wrong? By JASON ZINOMAN
How do you make a play about the history of the public school system in America without being boring? The Irondale Ensemble Project has come up with some solutions, but none are satisfactory.
One Among 10,000 Others Deformed by a Drug By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Richard Willett's play traces the history of Thalidomide, the drug that caused birth defects when taken by pregnant women.
Modern Neurotics Mingling With the Ghosts of Vienna By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
This head-scratcher from the playwright Craig Lucas attempts to dramatize Marx's axiom that history repeats itself.
When Mean Girls Are Not Stopped By JASON ZINOMAN
Joan MacLeod's sober and gripping one-woman show adds to the growing consensus in popular culture that "sugar-and-spice and everything nice" might have been overstating the case.
Confronting the Sins of the Father in a Posthumous Reunion By ANDREA STEVENS
Directors who choose the crutch of magical realism when approaching a Sam Shepard play would be better served by recognizing the magic of realism, as Cyndy A. Marion has skillfully done in "The Late Henry Moss."
The Two Ages of One Man Confronting Ghosts of Both By MARGO JEFFERSON
Phil Atlakson's new play uses television sets, slide projections and microphones in a fresh way that makes them feel essential to the story.
For Audiences Whose Cups of Kindliness Are Overflowing By JASON ZINOMAN
If you like your theater crime-ridden, foul-mouthed and drained of human compassion, "Dirty Works" should be right up your very dark alley.
