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  Theatre in Review: Days of Wine and Roses (Studio 54)
Having opened at Atlantic Theater Company last summer, Days of Wine and Roses transfers to Broadway with two major problems intact. The first is the challenge of dramatizing its subject. The musical, you will remember, is ...
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Theatre in Review: Aristocrats (Irish Repertory Theatre)
In Aristocrats, the past isn't just another country; it is indescribably distant. Casimir, a representative of faded Irish gentry, is the custodian of his family's history, which he curates, in detail, to Tom, a visiting ...
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Theatre in Review: White Rose: The Musical (Theatre Row)
The story of The White Rose is nearly always worth telling, although, as the current version shows, how you tell it makes all the difference. A group of university students in Nazi Germany, its members risked (and mostly lost) their lives ...
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Theatre in Review: Public Obscenities (Theatre for a New Audience)
In its initial engagement, last season at Soho Rep, Public Obscenities was acclaimed and laden with awards, for reasons that are easy to see. (It has been a magnet for theatre companies; NAATCO co-produced with Soho Rep and ...
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Theatre in Review: The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 (New Light Theater Project/59E59
Like the poor, the jukebox musical is always with us, but when one comes along displaying real ambition and a distinctive point of view, attention must be paid. I won't pretend that The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 is a ...
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Theatre in Review: Crime and Punishment (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble/ART New York Theatres)
On the face of it, the idea of boiling down Fyodor Dostoevsky's sprawling novel to ninety minutes and three actors seems like the most Sisyphean of endeavors. Then again, the maximalist approach hasn't been successful. At least two ...
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Theatre in Review: Our Class (Arlekin Players/Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Our Class begins on a humorous, casual, Our Town note, but don't be fooled; horror awaits around every corner. The actors take the stage, scripts in hand, and, with the house lights up, introduce themselves as grade ...
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Theatre in Review: Terce: A Practical Breviary (HERE/Prototype Opera)/Mahinerator (The Tank)
Last week was distinguished by two productions offering expertise and bafflement in equal measure; easy to admire and hard to parse, each at least offers notable artists doing what they do best.
In her recent works, Heather ...
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Theatre in Review: Volcano (Under the Radar/St. Ann's Warehouse)
Volcano, from the Dublin-based company Attic Projects, is the latest serving of theatre under glass, a design affectation that has recently overtaken Anglo-Irish stages. The idea is to encase actors and scenery ...
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Theatre in Review: Prayer for the French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
What a difference a few years makes: Prayer for the French Republic, returning after an acclaimed 2022 run at MTC's City Center venue, remains (despite a few structural oddities) a powerful piece, but current events -- ...
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Theatre in Review: Appropriate (Second Stage/Hayes Theater)
For his 2014 work, now making a scorching Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has imagined the most spectacularly dysfunctional family since the Westons of August: Osage County. Congregating at an Arkansas ...
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Theatre in Review: The Night of the Iguana (La Femme Theatre Productions)
The Night of the Iguana is Tennessee Williams' showdown at the Last Chance Hotel. Officially called the Costa Verde, it's a rattletrap retreat, set high above the ocean, which acts as a terminus for the dying, ...
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Theatre in Review: Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater Company)
Can a musical thrive on musicianship alone? That's the question posed by Buena Vista Social Club, which puts the exceedingly gifted members of its band at center stage. It's a clear case of playing to a show's strengths and ...
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Theatre in Review: Death, Let Me Do My Show (Orpheum Theatre)
One thing is clear from the new show at the Orpheum: Death becomes Rachel Bloom. As someone who doesn't particularly consider myself a fan, I approached Death, Let Me Do My Show with trepidations, none of which were ...
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Theatre in Review: Madwomen of the West (Actors Temple Theatre)
The hell with a balanced budget: It's time for Congress to pass The Defense of Actresses of a Certain Age Act. This highly necessary law will highlight and punish the creators of shoddy vehicles for gifted female performers who, for ...
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Theatre in Review: The Gardens of Anuncia (Lincoln Center Theater Company)
Our subject today is the care and feeding of future stars. Graciela Daniele was raised by her mother, aunt, and grandmother in Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s; in this new musical memoir, she pays tribute to their indelible ...
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Theatre in Review: How to Dance in Ohio (Belasco Theatre)
How to Dance in Ohio puts its best foot forward, bringing its young lead performers onstage for a quick pre-show talk and, instantly, you grasp the show's rationale: They're the most winning bunch of talents you're likely to ...
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Theatre in Review: Life and Times of Michael K (St. Ann's Warehouse)
There are two ways of thinking about Life and Times of Michael K, and whichever you subscribe to will certainly influence your experience at St. Ann's Warehouse. The first has to do with the sheer display of craft. A co ...
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Theatre in Review: Lone Star (Ruth Stage/Theatre Row)
"Imagine a Burt Reynolds movie as written by Mel Brooks, and you might have an approximation of the hilarity." So wrote Mel Gussow about Lone Star when it opened on Broadway in 1979 to general acclaim (and admittedly, a ...
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Theatre in Review: Manahatta (Public Theater)
Manahatta is a thing of mirrors, a fact immediately obvious in Marcelo Martínez García's set, which features an upstage reflecting wall that, when backlit, reveals new depths. This is, I think, a nod to the structure ...
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