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Shakespeare's history plays are given superb productions by the RSC. Four are on view right now Richard II, Henry IV, Part One and Two, and Henry V The other four await in the wings.
Cry-Baby may not be another Hairspray, but it's still fun. Credit some good songs, a winning cast and sexy choreography for the spell it weaves.
And you thought General Sherman's scorched-earth tactics left disaster in its wake. The musical version of Gone With the Wind is in that category.
The Walworth Farce is utterly original and nearly always unpredictable. The play is alternately funny and frightening.
Smart casting has NYCO audiences humming the values of this production of Candide.
In its move to Broadway from BAM, Macbeth has lost none of its power and grandeur. If possible, Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, have gotten even better.
Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear makes arresting use of language. It's definitely inventive, if at times irritating.
There's not much to feed on in A Catered Affair. Some delicious performances here, an atmospheric set there... but other major ingredients are missing.
The Donmar Warehouse has come up with a beautiful revival of Peter Gill's Small Change. The play, in effect, is about the slow, protracted suicide that accounts for too many people's lives.
God of Carnage is Yasmina Reza's latest intermissionless saga. Not necessarily the crowd pleaser that was Art, but there are still plenty of grit-filled grace notes along the way.
There's a severe disconnect between the music and the book of The Black and White Ball. Too bad, when the music just happens to be that of Cole Porter.
This revival of Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone, is a real revelation. This is a Mama Rose, who shows her vulnerability, along with her more outrageous side-overbearing, but not bombastic.
Ethan Coen's three one-acters, though only 80 minutes long in total, are as satisfying and thought-provoking as many three-hour dramas.
Warren Mitchell gives a master class in acting in Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green. The actor's own frailities are perfectly matched, with those of his character.
Paul Rudnick misses the boat in The New Century, his new collection of one-acts. Yes, there are some witty one-liners, but the wit is based on stereotypes that should not have escaped the la…
Radical in its day, this 36-year-old classic from South Africa still resonates with current audiences.
Broadway By The Year 1954 provides some very well-known musicals (The Pajama Game, for one) as well as some lesser known gems (Fanny and House of Flowers) - all expertly done.
Let her entertain us - and Patti LuPone does just and more in this thrilling pitch perfect revival of Gypsy.
This big-time revival of South Pacific has it all- great songs, glorious voices and a superb cast singing their hearts out.
August: Osage County wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Four of Us is an interesting tale of how envy can ruin the closest of relationships. Are there some famous names behind the fiction?
Girls night out, oops make that The Drunken City, with lightweight characters and obvious plot points. When did modern young women become such ninnies?
Willy Holtzman's Something You Did is full of intelligent dialogue. What it needs is more action to go along with all that talk.
This production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, under Emma Rice's direction is nothing short of a knockout. It bypasses the head and goes straight for the heart.
Just shy of its 60th birthday, whatever else one wants to say about South Pacific, no one can deny its score is right up there with the best of all time.
