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  Theatre in Review: All the Beauty in the World (DR2 Theatre)
It's interesting (to me, anyway) how many notes I take at any given production. Some earn a few scribbles; others produce reams. This has nothing to do with quality, I think, but sometimes it can be revealing. For example, the 75-minute ...
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Theatre in Review: Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (HERE)
The title tells almost all about Emma Horwitz and Bailey Williams' mad romp, which indeed frequently focuses on two sisters and is loaded with lesbian erotica -- not the steamy, noir-lit kind pioneered by Ann Bannon in the ...
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Theatre in Review: Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace Theatre)
On the day the stock market dove headfirst into a sea of red ink, there I was, at the Palace, surrounded by theatregoers who had spent upwards of several hundred dollars to see a savage critique of capitalism by a playwright who espouses ...
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Theatre in Review: Danger and Opportunity (East Village Basement)
The characters in Danger and Opportunity have a bad case of throuple trouble. Christian and Edwin are a married pair, hosting Margaret, Christian's girlfriend from his Catholic high school days. It's one of those nights, and ...
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Theatre in Review: Good Night, and Good Luck (Winter Garden Theatre)
Good Night, and Good Luck could hardly have arrived at a more propitious time: What with academic institutions, legal firms, and media outlets all bowing to power in Washington, what better time for the drama of a journalist ...
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Theatre in Review: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse at St. Ann's Warehouse)
For a guy who's been dead for one hundred and twenty-one years, Anton Chekhov has had quite a few co-authors lately. These days, writers, not content with translating the Russian master's plays, are intent on dragging them into the ...
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Theatre in Review: Othello (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
As far as I can tell, this much-anticipated revival's objective is to deliver a fast-paced Othello, cut to a relatively brief two hours and thirty minutes and heavily focused on stars Denzel Washington and Jake ...
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Theatre in Review: Buena Vista Social Club (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
Buena Vista Social Club is packed to the rafters with sizzling musical performances, both vocal and instrumental, and dances to match. The opener, "El Carretero," strikes a party atmosphere, with the entire company leaning in ...
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Theatre in Review: Cold Water (Little Engine Theater/Ki Smith Gallery)
Cold Water, a wry and occasionally touching two-hander by the British-American Philippa Lawford (with an assist from Anton Chekhov) is most notable for the opportunities it affords two fine actors. Ben Rosenfield ...
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Theatre in Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Music Box Theatre)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a stunningly imaginative piece of stagecraft, brilliantly realized and meticulous in almost every detail. It should be of great interest to every LSA reader. And it is, I think, a mistake, ...
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Theatre in Review: Operation Mincemeat (Golden Theatre)
Late in the first act, Operation Mincemeat abandons its frantically cartooned, herky-jerky ways and quietly takes one's breath away. The new musical is about a famous British counterespionage maneuver in World War II, and, ...
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Theatre in Review: Amm(i)gone (The Flea Theatre)
In Amm(i)gone, the Pakistani-American teacher and theatre artist Adil Mansoor tries to get closer to his mother by collaborating on an Urdu translation of a classic Greek tragedy. Please note that it is not Medea ...
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Theatre in Review: Purpose (Helen Hayes Theater)
With recent tenants like Between Riverside and Crazy, Appropriate, Mother Play, and Cult of Love, the Hayes Theater has become Broadway's official House of Family Dysfunctions. Purpose continues ...
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Theatre in Review: Wine in the Wilderness (Classic Stage Company)
The strange case of Alice Childress continues to be a scandal of major proportions. Not nearly celebrated enough in her own time, she was promptly forgotten after her 1984 death. Yet, since 2021, each new Childress revival has ...
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Theatre in Review: Maybe Tomorrow (Abingdon Theatre Company at ART/New York Theatres)
Maybe Tomorrow is the first play I've seen set entirely in a bathroom; this is not likely the birth of a genre. It's a rather luxurious bathroom, surprisingly so, since it is attached to a mobile home. (A "deluxe" one, we are ...
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Theatre in Review: Vanya (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
It's the pauses that are so telling in Andrew Scott's solo version of the Anton Chekhov classic. To be sure, the actor does many things spectacularly in Sam Yates' production: He crosses behind the freestanding door ...
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Theatre in Review: We Had a World (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage II)
In We Had a World, playwright Joshua Harmon acts as a cartographer, mapping out the complex landscape of love and resentment that shaped his youth. The play is founded on two indisputable facts, communicated by Harmon's ...
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Theatre in Review: Amerikin (Primary Stages/59E59)
The playwright Chisa Hutchinson, who is Black, does a very nervy thing in Amerikin, imagining life in a Maryland town teeming with white supremacists. And, until she loses control of her material in the second act, she ...
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Theatre in Review: Ghosts (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
The acting in this revival of Henrik Ibsen's famously thorny play is often good enough to make one forget the fuzzy production concept framing it. Director Jack O'Brien is bent on pulling Ghosts -- its plot ...
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Theatre in Review: Last Call (New World Stages)
If nothing else, Last Call is a chance to meet two outstanding women of the German theatre. The director Gil Mehmert opted to cast the male lead characters of Peter Danish's play with actresses, a gambit that, ...
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