A Spectacle, Moving Yet Mysterious by BRUCE WEBER
The Lincoln Center Festival productions of Ta'ziyeh, the Iranian musical theater form, are, above all, an education for secular New York.
Play? Opera? A Challenge to Daunt the Eye and Ear by JOHN ROCKWELL
"The Reading," as it is subtitled, of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome," at the St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, shows that it's hard to see a play and hear operatic music.
"That Pretty Pretty; or, the Rape Play," at the Rattlestick, gives you plenty of rape and nothing pretty. I'm not sure what the play is about, but, then, it seems, neither is the author, She…
The Model of a Soldier (but No Model Soldier) By CARYN JAMES
The 1920's novel "The Good Soldier Svejk," by the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek, continues to have an astonishing afterlife, including the new stage production "Svejk."
What's the Story: Is It Dance or Theater? By JOHN ROCKWELL
Layers of popular and artistic choreographic history are evoked in Matthew Bourne's "Play Without Words." No matter. This is theater, Mr. Bourne insists.
Friends, I have a confession to make. No, I'm not writing this from rehab. I actually just returned from the Pantages, where - this isn't easy to admit - I saw "Cats" for the first time.
Enter One Actor, Cloaked in Magic by BRUCE WEBER
In the category of theater writ small we have two one-actor shows, "Lilia!" and "That Play," both at the Midtown International Theater Festival.
The conflict roiling inside of Leonard Bernstein found fervent, ecstatic release in each note of music he made. Listening again, it's still clear this was one incomparable man.
