It is not always easy with avant- garde works to tell what is true innovation and what is self- serving eccentricity. Case in point: Les Éphémères, from Théatre du Soleil, a Paris troupe that Ariane Mnouchkine, a descendant of Russian emigres, runs as a commune.
Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, once Broadway producers with hits like "Ragtime," deserve an 8- to 10-year prison sentence for defrauding investors of millions of dollars, prosecutor Ale…
The show gets, and deserves, a slightly longer run than the usual Encores! airing (and Broadway may follow), as this is truly a show for all ages and all imaginable audiences.
The enthralling "Night Sky," running off-Broadway in Manhattan, may be the accomplished Susan Yankowitz's best play yet.
At her second-best, which this is, Rebeck can still be amusing.
Revived by the Pearl Theatre in Manhattan's East Village under Austin Pendleton's direction, it proves as unwieldy as in its 1977 Broadway premiere, which lasted five performances.
I haven't read the novel or seen the cartoon movie based on it, but the show, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York, struck me as too campy by half.