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Sarah Ruhl's latest, Dead Man's Cell Phone is a doozy. Inspired silliness transcends morbidity in this riff on a modern accoutrement.
Adding Machine, based on Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, more resembles a chamber opera than a regular musical, say more Wozzek, than Hello Dolly,
Passing Strange is an original, high-energy show, packed with talented performers.
Legal Fictions, two one-act plays by John Mortimer, are slender divertissements, not up to his usual high standards. Where's Rumpole when we need him?
Broadway By The Year spotlighted 1947 - and it was a glorious year, it was. Just think Brigadoon or Finian's Rainbow, for starters.
Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is the toast of two theatre capitals. Who could have imagined that a play with so seemingly specific a text, could be played in two such different ways.
If Noel Coward's The Vortex merits a visit - and it does - it's to witness a playwright, who in later life kept his Private Lives guarded, laying himself bare.
A towering production of Macbeth. Hail Patrick Stewart, hail Rupert Goold, hail Kate Fleetwood.
Alan Palmer is spot on as he conjures up a legion of Fabulous Divas of Broadway.
This revival of Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon falls mostly flat. It reminds one yet again, that airiness and sophistication can be the hardest qualities to achieve on stage.
Convincing as a one-act play at the Edinburgh Festival, Scarborough falters as a two-act one in its latest guise.
Adaption of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine occupies Minetta Lane Theater
This revival of Sunday in the Park with George is gripping, gorgeous and gratifying, containing some of the smartest writing in musical theater history.
The Little Mermaid is one all wet fishy tale. Dare we say, it sinks like a stone before it even gets out of the harbor.
Art Isn't Easy as we've been told, but this revival of Sunday in the Park With George makes it look easy. For lovers of Sondheim and of musical theater, this is a must-see.
This Macbeth is overlong, but Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood give compelling performance as the Thane and his Lady
Electroshock treatment, bipolar disorder...not your average subjects for a musical. But Next to Normal is seldom depressing. In fact, it's a daring, mostly successful musical.
Michael Pennington's Sweet William is a seamless example of the thespian art. It should be essential viewing for all students of the Bard, not to mention those who need a reminder of the she…
The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other may be about nothing more than its admittedly unusual concept. Whatever it is, it's the nearest we've had so far this year to the theater's generally u…
This revival of Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prize winning comedy has one problem. It's not funny - and that's because it begins where it should end. Nonetheless, it's still a serviceable vehicle …
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island is one of the quirkiest, off beat shows in years. The animated projections are cool.
True believer or atheist, Grace, with Lynn Redgrave, giving an impassioned performance, will have you believing - in the power of fine acting.
David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow is a bruising morality play about, of all things, Hollywood. The play ends on an upbeat note...but that's not necessarily a happy ending.
Not even the fabulous Christine Ebersole can save this Encores! presentation of Applause. When all is said and done, this seldom-seen musical proves to be second-rate
There's little hand clapping for the City Center Encores! Applause. For starters, leading lady Christine Ebersole, great as she is, lacks the requisite bitchiness, for the role of Margo Chan…
