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Reviving the Chill in a Familiar Monster Tale By JASON ZINOMAN
An imaginative young company called the Flying Machine has brought this tale of scientific hubris vividly back to life.
The English Tongue, Defiled and Defended By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Despite a few accents that even Henry Higgins would have trouble placing, this production is a reliable visit to familiar territory.
Who Needs Dialogue? Shakespeare the Musical By NEIL GENZLINGER
The creators of this rousing, proudly frivolous musical have taken Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and achieved a sort of hypnotic effect.
Clowns With Mops, Seeking Amateur Equestrians By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The show offers masterly clowning with echoes of "Cirque du Soleil" and "Slava's Snowshow" without forfeiting claim to its own winning originality.
Five Characters in Search of the Art of Quirkiness By PHOEBE HOBAN
David Cale has the flexible body language to embody convincingly a range of personalities. But as a performer he's more milquetoast than razzle-dazzle.
A Spirited Struggle of Man and Puppet By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Jim Henson Foundation helped to finance this new puppet-dance work by Federico Restrepo, but this vivid piece is a long way from Kermit.
The Martial Arts Need Showtunes, Too By NEIL GENZLINGER
Travis Kramer has taken the uplifting story of the 1984 film "The Karate Kid" and done sadistic surgery on it.
Making Things Right With Tiny Tim By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The question of what happened to Ebenezer Scrooge is addressed and answered to thoughtful and moving effect in this dramatic reading.
There's Melodrama at the Whorehouse By JASON ZINOMAN
Fred Pezzulli's "Rattlesnake" is an overcooked and recycled soap opera of a play about a flirtatious prostitute with a heart of gold.
The Means of a Dead End By JASON ZINOMAN
Daniel MacIvor builds a dry and dread-filled puzzle of a play around one bump in the night.
Family Guys Who Are What They Are By BEN BRANTLEY
Even the most convention-bound theatergoers will remain shock-free through this alternately garish and pallid revival of Jerry Herman's 1983 musical.
Oy, Such Meshugas! Can't She Marry a Nice Jewish Man? By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
This amusing, lightweight, broadly comic satire is performed in a zesty old-fashioned style at the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater.
Shakespeare Doesn't Need All That There Fancy Talk By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Corn and sugar turn out to be essential ingredients in this sweet-tempered, cheerfully hokey musical adaptation of "The Merry Wives of Windsor."
Plumbing the Surprising Depth of the Milk of Tiger Kindness By MIRIAM HORN
Ami Dayan, an Israeli-American, brings a wan new-age spirituality to this one-man show adapted from a play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
They've Got Those Upper West Side, Not Jewish Enough Blues By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
In Daniel Goldfarb's snappy if superficial new romantic comedy, a young Jewish couple are provoked to question their commitment to each other.
Death-Defying Fantasy Fueled by Love By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
As emotion surrounding the AIDS epidemic has inevitably cooled, Paula Vogel's play must stand up to less emotionally inflected scrutiny and, sadly, it often sags.
War, Comedy and Blanche DuBois By JASON ZINOMAN
This by-the-numbers biographical drama at 59 E. 59 Theaters is a good illustration of the limitations of sticking to the historical record.
Men in the Sick Bay, Waning, Not Waxing, Sentimental By NEIL GENZLINGER
Though John Patrick's play shows its age, fine performances make this Keen Company production at Theater Three a worthy excursion into the past.
The Story of a Delusionally Bad Philadelphia Singer By JASON ZINOMAN
Judy Kaye nails the role of Florence Foster Jenkins with her perfectly imperfect pitch in this two-character biographical play.
A Couple Playing a Couple, With Minimal Bleakness By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
David Gordon's version of Eugene Ionesco's play, which ignores many of the author's staging dictates, is self-indulgent and largely ineffective.
Repatriating the Japanese Sondheim By BEN BRANTLEY
The revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical has the disoriented quality of someone suffering from jet lag after a sleepless trans-Pacific flight.
The Spirit of Christmas Never By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Haunted by the ghosts of television shows past, this musicalized "Christmas Carol" is a show of modest ambitions and extremely modest attainments.
The Strain of Politeness as Irritation Drives a Plot By BEN BRANTLEY
In his new play, Richard Nelson offers a deep and sorrowful understanding of how much loneliness there often is in lust.
Only the Fire Was Real, but the Cast Is Credible By NEIL GENZLINGER
Robyn Burland's play about the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fends off skepticism with straightforward characters and a judicious sprinkling of historical references.
Music From the Movies, Midcentury Style By ANITA GATES
While it's hard to go wrong with four talented people singing songs from 1930's, 40's and 50's movies, at times the show feels unpleasantly forced.
