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Girl From The North Country - "‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob..."
West Side Story - "‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video"
My Name is Lucy Barton - "‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match"
Sing Street - "‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance"
A Christmas Carol - "‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats"
The Inheritance - "‘The Inheritance’ Review: So Many Men, So Much Time"
American Utopia - "Review: ‘American Utopia’ Is David Byrne’s Neighborhood"
Little Shop of Horrors - "‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan..."
The Rose Tattoo - "Review: Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’"
Linda Vista - "‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms"
Freestyle Love Supreme - "'Freestyle Love Supreme' Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World"
Derren Brown: Secret - "Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren ..."
Betrayal - "Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Und..."
Moulin Rouge! The Musical - "Review: ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Offer..."
Beetlejuice - "Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting"
Ink - "Review: In ‘Ink,’ a Mephistopheles Named Murdoch Takes Charge"
Hillary and Clinton - "Review: In ‘Hillary and Clinton,’ Codepen..."
Burn This - "Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly 'Burn This'"
Oklahoma! - "Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id"
King Lear - "Review: Glenda Jackson Rules a Muddled World in ‘King Lear’"
Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations - "Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations M..."
Be More Chill - "Review: Anxious Teens Learn to ‘Be More Chill’ on a Big Stage"
True West - "Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a M..."
Network - "Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All..."
The Hard Problem - "Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem�..."
Wild Goose Dreams - "Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’"
Thom Pain ( Based on nothing ) - "Review: Michael C. Hall Probes the Despair of ‘Thom Pain’"
Mike Birbiglia's The New One - "Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’"
Torch Song - "Review: Lessons in Love From a Drama Queen in ‘Torch Song’"
The Nap - "Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’"
The Waverly Gallery - "Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’"
The Ferryman - "A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast"
Ben Brantley - "Chasing Shopworn Dreams in ‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’"
Moulin Rouge! - "Review: Hit Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’"
Head Over Heels - "Review: Ye Olde Go-Go’s Songs Hit the Renai..."
The Boys in the Band (2018) - "Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter ..."
Long Day's Journey Into Night - "Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-..."
Dance Nation - "‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13"
The Birds - "Building the Wall (Not That One) in Aristopha..."
A Brief History of Women - "‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckb..."
The Iceman Cometh (2018) - "Review: In an Energized "Iceman," the Drinks are on Denzel"
Transfers - "‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview"
Travesties - "Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Librar..."
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - "Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child�..."
The Seafarer - "Matthew Broderick Finds His Inner Satan in ‘The Seafarer’"
Zürich - "In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang"
Mlima's Tale - "Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the Worl..."
Carousel - "Review: A ‘Carousel’ That Spins on a Roma..."
This Flat Earth - "‘This Flat Earth’ Traces Childhood Fears No Parent Can Allay"
Mean Girls - "Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song"
Lobby Hero - "Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Tell Lie..."
Angels in America - "Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars..."
The Low Road - "A Boisterous ‘Low Road’ Finds the Potholes in Capitalism"
Hangmen - "A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh"
He Brought Her Heart Back In A Box - "‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Ken..."
Farinelli and the King - "Review: Mark Rylance Returns as a Mad Monarch..."
Farinelli and the King - "BROADWAY REVIEW: Mark Rylance Returns to Broa..."
Home - "Dreaming of ‘Home,’ With a Magical Guide in His Underwear"
Hundred Days - "Waltzing With Love and Death in ‘Hundred Days’"
SpongeBob SquarePants - "BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’..."
Downtown Race Riot - "Sleepwalking Through the ’70s in ‘Downtown Race Riot’"
Pirates of Penzance - "Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’"
The Fountainhead - "‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp"
Network - "‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsi..."
The Band's Visit - "‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Music..."
Junk - "‘Junk’ Revives a Go-Go Era of Debt and Duplicity"
The B-Side - "‘The B-Side’ Is an Extraordinary Masterclass in Listening"
Illyria - "‘Illyria’ Eavesdrops on a Young Joe Papp and Friends"
Knives in Hens - "‘Knives in Hens,’ a Wondrous Drama of the Lust for Language"
M. Butterfly - "‘M. Butterfly’ Returns to Broadway on Heavier Wings"
The Last Match - "In ‘The Last Match,’ Tennis Is Not Only a Game"
After the Blast - "Romancing the Bot in Zoe Kazan’s ‘After the Blast’"
Torch Song - "A ‘Torch Song’ Burning With Emotion Behind the Laughs"
Animal Wisdom - "A Requiem Mass With a Southern Twang in ‘Animal Wisdom’"
Richard III - "A Richard III Who Steps Straight Out of the Land of Id"
Measure For Measure - "Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues."
Discord - "Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy Debate Jesus. ‘Discord’ Ensues"
The Treasurer - "In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama,..."
Simpatico - "Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild"
The Merchant Of Venice - "A Flock of Shylocks Transforms ‘Merchant of Venice’"
KPOP - "KPOP Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture"
In the Blood - "‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks"
On the Shore of the Wide World - "3 Generations Aching to Connect 'On the Shore of the Wide World'"
_______ A - "A Play With a Crude Name and a Powerfully Dark View"
Inanimate - "Review: In ‘Inanimate,’ a Forbidden Love ..."
Prince of Broadway - "A Prince’s Broadway Kingdom is Scattered to the Winds"
Van Gogh's Ear - "Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of Van Gogh"
Girl From the North Country (London) - "Girl From the North Country"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (London 2017) - "Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’"
Spoon River - "Spoon River"
Hamlet-Public - "Hamlet-Public"
Opening Skinner's Box - "Opening Skinner's Box"
Pipeline - "Pipeline"
1984 - "Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’"
Fulfillment Center - "Fulfillment Center"
Ghost Light - "Ghost Light"
Bella: An American Tall Tale - "Bella: An American Tall Tale"
Kill Move Paradise - "Kill Move Paradise"
Of Government - "Of Government"
Raw Bacon From Poland - "Raw Bacon From Poland"
Animal-Atlantic Theater Company - "Animal-Atlantic Theater Company"
The Government Inspector- Red Bull Theater - "The Government Inspector"
Hamlet (Waterwell) - "A ‘Hamlet’ Poised Between Cultures (and Languages)"
The Whirligig - "‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef"
Iphigenia in Splott - "A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh ‘Iphigenia in Splott’"
Venus - "‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin"
Derren Brown: Secret - "Don’t Bother Keeping a ‘Secret’ With Derren Brown Around"
Arlington - "The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’"
The Ferryman - "‘The Ferryman’ in Jez Butterworth’s Ireland"
Dreamgirls (London) - "A Souped-Up ‘Dreamgirls’ Roars in London"
A Doll's House, Part 2 - "A Sequel Asks, Who’s Knocking on the Door a..."
Six Degrees of Separation - "A Scam Artist’s Masterwork in ‘Six Degrees of Separation’"
The Antipodes - "‘The Antipodes’ and Ambiguous Brainstorming"
Anastasia - "‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - "Some Sugar but Not Enough Spice in This ‘Chocolate Factory’"
Hello, Dolly! - "‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette"
Indecent - "‘Indecent’ Pays Heartfelt Tribute to a Stage Scandal"
Groundhog Day - "A Star Is Born (and Born and Born) in ‘Groundhog Day’"
Samara - "Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’"
Oslo - "‘Oslo’ Fills a Large Canvas in a Thrilling Production"
War Paint - "In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams"
Present Laughter - "Kevin Kline Serves Ham in Soignée Silk in ‘Present Laughter’"
Amélie - "‘Amélie’ Is Easy to Listen To, but Never Really Sings"
The Hairy Ape - "A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existent..."
The Play That Goes Wrong - "‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit"
Latin History for Morons - "John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘La..."
Sweat (2017) - "‘Sweat’ Imagines the Local Bar as a Caldron"
The New Yorkers - "Encores! Serves a Bathtub Martini in ‘The New Yorkers’"
Miss Saigon - "Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’"
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage - "Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transc..."
The Terrifying - "‘The Terrifying’ Has Paranoia and the Fee..."
Joan of Arc: Into the Fire - "‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood"
Sundown, Yellow Moon - "Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’"
The Light Years - "Big Dreams, Bright Ideas in ‘The Light Years’"
The Moors - "In ‘The Moors,’ Where Heathcliff Fears to Tread"
Come From Away - "‘Come From Away,’ a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day"
The Glass Menagerie (2017) - "Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’"
Significant Other - "In ‘Significant Other,’ the Gay Best Frie..."
Sweeney Todd (2017) - "A ‘Sweeney Todd’ That Gets Into Your Face"
Linda - "In 'Linda,' the Lures and Snares of Leaning In"
The Skin of Our Teeth (2017) - "In 'The Skin of Our Teeth,' the End of the World as We Know It"
Wakey, Wakey - "'Wakey, Wakey' Stars Life and Death"
Kid Victory - "In 'Kid Victory,' Rescued but Not Free"
Sunday In the Park with George (2017) - "Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’..."
Everybody - "In 'Everybody,' Mortality Loves Company"
On the Exhale - "'On the Exhale' Addresses Grief and the Attra..."
Escaped Alone - "In 'Escaped Alone' Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse)"
Evening at the Talk House - "'Evening at the Talk House' Is Just the Dystopia Next Door"
Man from Nebraska - "'Man from Nebraska' Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith"
Good Samaritans - "In 'Good Samaritans,' They Sing and Dance, bu..."
Life According to Saki - "In 'Life According to Saki,' Whistling a Perversely Happy Tune"
The Town Hall Affair - "It's Norman Mailer vs. Feminists in 'The Town Hall Affair'"
Sunset Boulevard - "That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused"
Yen - "‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction"
Jitney - "August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls"
The Tempest (St. Ann's Warehouse, 2017) - "In 'The Tempest,' Liberation and Exhilaration"
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - "'The Beauty Queen of Leenane': Oh Gosh, I've ..."
Time of Women - "'Time of Women' Portrays Activists Haunted by a K.G.B. Ordeal"
Lula del Ray - "'Lula del Ray,' a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images"
The Bitter Game - "'The Bitter Game' Brings Black Lives Matter to the Fore"
The Present - "‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40"
Hundred Days - "What if ‘Until Death Do Us Part’ Means a ‘Hundred Days’?"
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - "The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’"
Othello (NYTW) - "Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theate..."
In Transit - "‘In Transit’ Goes on an a Cappella Ride"
The Band's Visit - "Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’"
Tiny Beautfiul Things - "Dear Audiences of ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ Prepare to Cry"
The Winter's Tale (2016) - "In This ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the King Is In..."
Rancho Viejo - "‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate"
The Babylon Line - "Waiting to Connect in Levittown in ‘The Babylon Line’"
This Day Forward - "Review: ‘This Day Forward,’ a Weird Weddi..."
Sweet Charity (2016) - "A Thoroughly Modern ‘Sweet Charity’ Who Abandons Hope"
Dead Poets Society - "‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sude..."
Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought - "Daniel Kitson’s ‘Mouse’ Tells Its Tales Over a Speakerphone"
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World - "‘The Death of the Last Black Man,’ a Nigh..."
The Gabriels Play Three: Women of a Certain Age - "Review: Election Night With the Gabriels, a Play in Real Time"
Finian's Rainbow (Irish Rep) - "‘Finian’s Rainbow’ and the Perils of a Pot of Gold"
Kings of War - "Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones"
Notes From The Field - "Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Notes From the Fiel..."
Attorney Street - "‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now"
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - " ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon"
Two Class Acts: A Festival Celebrating A.R. Gurney - "What Would Sophocles Do? Pucker Up, Perhaps"
Duat - "In ‘Duat,’ the Here and Now and the Hereafter"
Sunday in the Park With George (New York City Center) - "Jake Gyllenhaal Shines in a Joyous ‘Sunday ..."
Plenty - "In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes th..."
The Front Page - "'The Front Page' Is Diverting, But Don't Stop the Presses "
Love, Love, Love - "In 'Love, Love, Love', All You Need Is Selfishness"
The Cherry Orchard - "All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’"
Heisenberg - "‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors"
Miles for Mary - "'Miles for Mary', a Sendup of the Interminable Meeting from Hell "
Oh, Hello - "‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple"
Fit For A Queen - "‘Fit for a Queen’ Sees ‘Dynasty’ Cent..."
The Roads to Home - "'The Roads to Home' Offers Gossip and Insanity Most Genteel"
All the Ways to Say I Love You - "‘All the Ways to Say I Love You,’ a Lesson in Guilt"
Battlefield - "'Battlefield' Explores the Silence After the War"
The Encounter - "Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech He..."
Nat Turner in Jerusalem - "‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance"
Underground Railroad Game - "Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’:..."
What Did You Expect? - "In ‘What Did You Expect?,’ a Potluck of Election-Year Anxiety"
The Birds - "‘The Birds’: Less-Than-Fierce-Feathered Nature in Revolt"
The Wolves - "'The Wolves': A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score"
Bears in Space - "'Bears in Space', an Interstellar Romp Through Winsome Silliness"
Spamilton: An American Parody - "In 'Spamilton', Broadway's Savior Meets His M..."
Groundhog Day - "‘Groundhog Day,’ All Over Again, Now With Song and Dance"
Men on Boats - "A Journey Through Uncharted Waters in ‘Men on Boats’"
Ben Brantley - "‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage"
Privacy - "‘Privacy,’ a Play That Urges You to Keep Your Smartphone On"
War Paint - "War Paint’ Recalls Two Cosmetics Titans"
Oslo - "A Byzantine Path to Middle East Peace in ‘Oslo’"
Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed - "A Harrowing Puppet Show, ‘Demolishing Every..."
Runaways - "Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’"
Tumacho - "‘Tumacho,’ a Rootin-Tootin’ Musical, Keeps Its Poker Face"
The Paper Hat Game - "Urban Nightmares as Puppets in ‘The Paper Hat Game’"
The Tomb of King Tot - "Pun Like an Egyptian Comic Strip in ‘The Tomb of King Tot’"
The Taming of the Shrew - "Petruchio Is a Woman, and Courtship Is a Beau..."
Hero's Welcome - "Take a Ride on the Farce Train With Two From Ayckbourn"
Shining City - "Shining City’ Is Brighter With Matthew Broderick"
The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois - " ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease"
Radiant Vermin - "‘Radiant Vermin,’ Newlyweds on a Dodgy Path to a Dream House"
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit - "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gyne..."
War - "‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by..."
Every Angel Is Brutal - "‘Every Angel Is Brutal’ Adds Kitsch to a ’70s Show"
A Doll's House & The Father - "Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays"
Peer Gynt - "A Minimalist Version of ‘Peer Gynt’ Still Provokes"
Incognito - "In ‘Incognito,’ the Brain Is Dramatic and Mysterious"
Toast - "‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism"
A Streetcar Named Desire - "A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak"
Shuffle Along - "‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace"
Long Day's Journey Into Night - "‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Te..."
Ben Brantley - "‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ Is a Ghostly Play"
Empathy School & Love Story - "‘Empathy School & Love Story’ Plumbs the ..."
American Psycho - "‘American Psycho’ Hits Broadway, So Smoot..."
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. - "‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Capture..."
The Father - "‘The Father’ Examines the Lion’s Mind in Winter"
Antlia Pneumatica - "‘Antlia Pneumatica,’ With Voices in the Dark"
The Crucible - "In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First Th..."
1776 - "‘1776,’ a Musical Portrait of Squabbling Politicians"
Head of Passes - "In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a..."
The Seagull and Other Birds - "‘The Seagull and Other Birds’ Turned Upside Down"
The Hundred We Are - "‘The Hundred We Are’ Explores Aging and Delusion"
Really - "‘Really’ Compares the Fixed Image With Life’s Flux"
Wolf in the River - "‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest..."
The Effect - "‘The Effect,’ About Falling in Love While..."
Krapp’s Last Tape - "‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem"
She Loves Me - "‘She Loves Me’ Is a Daydream of the Ordinary"
Hold On to Me Darling - "Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling..."
The Robber Bridegroom - "‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang"
Boy - "In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards H..."
Blackbird - "‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting"
The Royale - "‘The Royale’ Harks Back to the Fighter Jack Johnson"
Hungry - "‘Hungry’ Portrays a Mourning Clan in Election Year 2016"
Rimbaud in New York - "‘Rimbaud in New York’ Splices the Genes o..."
But I Cd Only Whisper - "‘But I Cd Only Whisper,’ a Tale of a Violent Veteran"
The Wildness - "In ‘The Wildness,’ Defenses Against Adulthood"
The Encounter - "You See ‘The Encounter’ With Your Ears"
I’ll Never Love Again - "‘I’ll Never Love Again,’ From a Teenage Girl’s Diary"
Hughie - "In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls"
Buried Child - "In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father a..."
Funny Girl - "In ‘Funny Girl,’ Sheridan Smith Does the Heavy Lifting"
Prodigal Son - "‘Prodigal Son,’ John Patrick Shanley’s ..."
Sense & Sensibility - "A Whirlwind of Delicious Gossip in ‘Sense & Sensibility’"
The Grand Paradise - "‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace"
Tonight/Jungle - "In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules"
I and You - "‘I and You’ Is Lauren Gunderson’s Senti..."
Our Mother’s Brief Affair - "‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives"
Skeleton Crew - "‘Skeleton Crew,’ a Tale of Autoworkers in Hard-Hit Detroit"
Longyarn - "Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up"
Confirmation - "‘Confirmation’ Asks You to Please Stop Thinking Like Yourself"
Now I'm Fine - "‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself"
The Holler Sessions - "In ‘The Holler Sessions,’ a D.J. as True Believer"
MDLSX - "Shedding Skins in Motus’s Genre-Blurring ‘MDLSX’ at La MaMa"
Go Forth - "‘Go Forth’ Finds the Living and the Dead Bound Together"
Germinal - "‘Germinal’ Sheds a Light on Creativity and All Creation"
Diner - "Adding the Women’s Side to the ‘Diner’ Menu"
Marjorie Prime - "In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past"
Once Upon a Mattress - "In ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ Jackie Hoffman..."
The Color Purple - "‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway, Stripped to Its Essence"
Oh Hello! - "In ‘Oh Hello,’ Sour and Crotchety Old Men at Their Best"
Lazarus - "David Bowie Songs and a Familiar Alien in ‘Lazarus’"
School of Rock - "‘School of Rock’ Teaches the ABCs of Power Chords"
China Doll - "In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacin..."
Shadowland Live - "Exploring the Edge of Soap Opera in ‘Shadowland’ at La MaMa"
New York Animals - "‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives"
Steve - "In ‘Steve,’ Contemplating Middle Age and Monogamy"
Abyss - "‘Abyss’ Follows Characters Named ‘He,�..."
Misery - "In ‘Misery,’ With Bruce Willis and Laurie..."
A View From the Bridge - "‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate"
Henry IV - "‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version"
Lost Girls - "In ‘Lost Girls,’ Derailed Blue-Collar Lives, With Zingers"
The Comedy of Errors - "A ‘Comedy of Errors’ That Never Stands Still"
Rear Window - "‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon"
King Charles III - "In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy "
Thérèse Raquin - "In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as..."
Houseworld - "Visiting ‘Houseworld,’ and the Perils and..."
Before Your Very Eyes - "Children Growing Very Old in ‘Before Your Very Eyes’"
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR - "‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR,’ the Englis..."
First Daughter Suite - "In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but ..."
Ripcord - "Review: ‘Ripcord,’ a Comic Tale of Adversaries"
Underneath - "‘Underneath,’ an Embrace of Irish Ghosts"
Travels With My Aunt - "‘Travels With My Aunt’ Taps Into a Hidden Sense of Adventure"
Fool for Love - "‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles"
Sisters’ Follies - "In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conj..."
Old Times - "‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place"
Cloud Nine - "‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings"
Fondly, Collette Richland - "‘Fondly, Collette Richland’ Offers Open-Eyed Dreaming"
Reread Another - "Revisiting Gertrude Stein’s Writings in ‘Reread Another’"
Antigone - "In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion"
Fulfillment - "Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One..."
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - "‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers"
Iphigenia in Aulis - "A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’"
Photograph 51 - "In ‘Photograph 51,’ Nicole Kidman Is a Steely DNA Scientist"
Isolde - "Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Returns With Starry Eyes"
Hamlet - "Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet,’ Cocoone..."
Mercury Fur - "In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’..."
Mother of the Maid - "‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint"
A Moon for the Misbegotten - "In ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten,’ Audra Mc..."
Hamilton - "‘Hamilton,’ Young Rebels Changing History and Theater"
Ubu Roi - "‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques"
Kinship - "‘Kinship’ Stars Cynthia Nixon as a Journalist"
Judith & Vinegar Tom - "‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth"
The Wild Party - "‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby"
Scenes From an Execution - "‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan M..."
DruidShakespeare: The History Plays - "‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is ..."
Penn & Teller - "Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology"
Off the Main Road - "‘Off the Main Road’ Stars Kyra Sedgwick as a Wife in Distress"
Legacy - "‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival"
Oklahoma! - "‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch"
Little Shop of Horrors - "In ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a Ravenous P..."
Of Good Stock - "In ‘Of Good Stock,’ Alicia Silverstone Is..."
Shows for Days - "‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth"
A New Brain - "‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death"
Men on Boats - "‘Men on Boats’ Blurs Genders in Recalling..."
Ada/Ava - "‘Ada/Ava,’ a Conjuring of Loneliness and ..."
My Perfect Mind - "‘My Perfect Mind’ Softens Fear of the Fal..."
Gloria - "‘Gloria,’ at the Vineyard Theater, Looks at a Toxic Workplace"
The Tempest - "‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the..."
Ghost Stories - "David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot"
Preludes - "‘Preludes,’ a Hypnotist Tries to Get Rach..."
10 out of 12 - "In ‘10 out of 12’ at Soho Rep, the Audien..."
Card and Gift - "‘Card and Gift,’ Set in a Seldom-Patronized Shop"
Heisenberg 2015 Off Broadway - "‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mi..."
The Spoils - "‘The Spoils’ Stars Jesse Eisenberg as Narcissist"
D Deb Debbie Deborah - "‘D Deb Debbie Deborah,’ a Dizzying Subversion of Identity"
I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am - " ‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’..."
The Sound and the Fury - "‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair..."
The Way We Get By - "‘The Way We Get By’ After a One-Night Stand"
Tuesday’s at Tesco’s - "‘Tuesday’s at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Ca..."
What I Did Last Summer - "‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apo..."
Zorba! - "‘Zorba!’ Starring John Turturro"
ToasT - "‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice"
Two Gentlemen of Verona - "Mating-Season Mood Swings in ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’"
Trash Cuisine - "Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Trash Cuisine’ ..."
Nirbhaya - "‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women"
The Visit - "Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’"
Something Rotten! - "‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare"
Living on Love - "Renée Fleming Plays Against Type in ‘Living on Love’"
Séquence 8 - "In ‘Séquence 8’ Acrobats Defy Gravity and Constrictive Words"
Fun Home - "‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater"
Genuine Plastic Reliquaries - "In Third Rail Project’s ‘Genuine Plastic ..."
The King and I - "‘The King and I,’ Back on Broadway"
Finding Neverland - "‘Finding Neverland,’ a Broadway Musical With Matthew Morrison"
It Shoulda Been You - "‘It Shoulda Been You,’ a Wedding on Broadway"
39 Steps - "‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again"
Ghosts - "In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,�..."
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two - "‘Wolf Hall,’ the Stage Version, Untangles..."
Cry, Trojans! - "‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s ..."
Skylight - ""Skylight," With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway"
Twelfth Night (or what you will) - "‘Twelfth Night,’ in Two Plays, Blurs Identity"
The Evening - "In Richard Maxwell’s ‘The Evening,’ Goi..."
Remote New York - "In ‘Remote New York,’ an Unseen Tour Guide Calls the Shots"
On the Twentieth Century - " ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin..."
Josephine and I - "‘Josephine and I,’ a Tribute Show by Cush Jumbo"
The Audience - "‘The Audience,’ With Helen Mirren, Opens on Broadway"
Fish in the Dark - "'Fish in the Dark,’ Larry David’s Antic Broadway Debut"
John & Jen - "John & Jen,’ a Revival Starring Kate Baldwin and Conor Ryan"
An Octoroon - "‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race"
The Nether - "Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores ..."
The Insurgents - "‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama"
Big Love - "In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape"
All Our Happy Days Are Stupid - "In Sheila Heti’s New Play, Canadians Lose Themselves in Paris"
Western Society - "‘Western Society,’ It’s a Selfie World After All"
Hamilton - "In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges ..."
Let the Right One In - "A Frightening and Feral First Love"
Into the Woods - "Fewer Trees in a Fairy-Tale Forest"
Honeymoon in Vegas - "What Happens in Vegas Comes to New York "
Brickman Brando Bubble Boom - "Brando as Godfather of Housing Crisis"
Constellations - "Nerds in Love, Rewriting Destinies"
Ancient Lives - "Plunging Teenage Angst Deeper Into the Woods"
Sorry Robot - "Robots May Get an Emotional Upgrade, but Huma..."
Pocatello - "Where Hope Isn’t What’s for Dinner"
Nella Tempesta - "Two Slaves and a Hurricane Stir Up a Youthquake"
Every Brilliant Thing - "Raindrops on Roses, for the Potentially Suicidal"
War - "Locked Outside a Familial Babel 'War,' Brande..."
The Elephant Man - "A Chance to Stare. So Go Ahead. Bradley Coope..."
Tristan & Yseult - "A Love Story and Its Voyeurs"
THE SEAGULL and SENSE & SENSIBILITY - "In Austen and Chekhov, a Test of Versatility"
A Particle of Dread - "Call Out the Patricide Squad"
Pitbulls - "Poor, Violent and Up for a Dogfight"
Blank! The Musical - "For This Casserole Add Song and Dance"
Allegro - "Hometown Boy, Recycled"
A Delicate Balance - "Pretty Crowded for an Empty Nest"
Tamburlaine, Parts I & II - "It’s Best Not to Make Him Angry"
Punk Rock - "Don’t Let Those Neat Uniforms Fool You"
The River - "A Reserve So Deep, You Could Drown"
Lypsinka! The Trilogy - "The Wasp Goddess, Imperious, Vulnerable and (Gasp) Unmasked"
The Band Wagon - "Show Within a Show, Within a Memory "
Sticks and Bones - "Bad News, Ozzie: David’s Home From ’Nam"
The Object Lesson - "In a Jungle of Boxes, Terrors of a Psychic Spring Cleaning"
The Real Thing - "When the Head Leads the Heart "
The Fortress of Solitude - "Magic Rings Can Do Only So Much"
4:48 Psychosis - "A Devouring Darkness Finally Cinches Its Grip..."
Lippy - "The Dead Speak but Don’t Explain ‘Lippy,�..."
On The Town - "Carried Away By the Sights! Lights! Nights! I..."
Written in Sand - "A Raging Lament of Raw Memory Karen Finley Re..."
Ghost Quartet - "The Finest of Dead People Dave Malloy's ‘G..."
It's Only A Play - "Well, Did What’s-His-Name Like It? Matthew ..."
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby - "Beaten (Down) by the Clock Three Beckett Plays About Time at BAM"
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - "Plotting the Grid of Sensory Overload"
The Country House - "‘Vanya’ and ‘Seagull’ and Mash-Up and..."
Indian Ink - "Sitting for a Portrait as Complex as the Raj ..."
The Old Man and the Old Moon - "Forsaking an Orb to Pursue the Light of His L..."
You Can’t Take It With You - "Screwball Magic Does the Trick ‘You Can’t..."
The Money Shot - "Where Sex Is Just Part of the Act ‘The Mone..."
Scenes From a Marriage - "A Marriage in Trouble, in Triplicate ‘Scene..."
The Valley of Astonishment - "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Take for Grante..."
Dry Land - "Swimming in High School, Drowning in Life ‘..."
This Is Our Youth - "Desperate Fledglings, Flung From the Nest ‘..."
Red Eye of Love - "High Whimsy and Low Expectations at the Meat ..."
Finding Neverland (American Rep) - "Fantasies Taxiing for Takeoff ‘Finding Neve..."
The Maids - "Classy Dames in Desperate Straits Cate Blanch..."
The Visit (Williamstown) - "Once Scorned, Now Rich and Seeking Revenge Ch..."
King Lear - "Sharper Than Serpents’ Teeth ‘King Lear�..."
Between Riverside and Crazy - "Rent-Stabilized, but Otherwise in Flux Stephe..."
Fool for Love (Williamstown) - "To Attract and Repel, in Perpetuity Nina Aria..."
Shakespeare in Love: The Play (London) - "Enter Will, With Tongue Still in Cheek ‘Sha..."
Richard III (London) - "If They’d Overthrown the Labour Party In Lo..."
The Crucible (London) - "The Body of Salem, Its Nerves Frayed ‘The C..."
Let the Right One In (London) - "An Undead Tale of the Teenage Years ‘Let th..."
Great Britain (London) - "Seamy World of the British Tabloid Arrives On..."
The Old Woman - "A Duo, Dynamism and a Dead Body ‘The Old Wo..."
When We Were Young and Unafraid - "A Woman’s Place at a Pivotal Moment ‘When..."
Hedwig & the Angry Inch - "This Is No Doctor. And No Lothario, Either. �..."
Casa Valentina - "A Place to Slip Into Something Comfortable �..."
Cabaret - "Old Chums Return, Where Club Is Home ‘Cabar..."
The Village Bike - "Careening Into a Bottomless Vortex ‘The Vil..."
Much Ado About Nothing - "Dancing Between Battles Lily Rabe in ‘Much ..."
Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! - "Knee-Jerk Revivals and Other Punch Lines ‘F..."
Here Lies Love - "Ferdinand and Imelda, Back on the Disco Floor..."
Macbeth - "Rushing Headlong Into the Hurly-Burly"
Arrivals & Departures - "Just Mill About, You Know, as Any Crowd Would..."
Fly by Night - "The Deli Guy, the Waitress, the Actress and t..."
Too Much Sun - "Vacation? The Show Will Still Go On: Nicky Si..."
Mothers and Sons - "Paths That Crossed Cross Again. ‘Mothers an..."
Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man! - "A Heretic and Hero Speaks in Many Tongues - �..."
King Lear - "Shakespeare Reimagined, Once Quietly, and Once Very Loud"
If/Then - "Stuck at the Crossroads Between Fate and Choice"
I Remember Mama - "A Tale of How It Was, Retold by Women of Experience"
Heathers The Musical - "The Rich Girls Are Going Down | ‘Heathers: ..."
Red Velvet - "Grandeur Under Siege | ‘Red Velvet’ Recal..."
The Most Happy Fella - "Uncorking a Napa Vintage for a Toast to Adult Romance"
A Raisin in the Sun - "No Rest for the Weary | ‘Raisin in the Sun�..."
Bullets Over Broadway - "The Chanteuse and the Gun Are Loaded | Woody ..."
Isolde - "The Precarious Foundation of a Dream House | ..."
The Library - "Cruel Truths Always Survive a Shooting - Stev..."
Of Mice and Men - "Hey, George, We Made It Back to Broadway | Ja..."
Act One - "In the Spotlight, Finding His Religion"
Act One - "In the Spotlight, Finding His Religion"
The Cripple of Inishmaan - "Hope Is Hollywood, Out of the Blue | Daniel R..."
Stockholm - "Brittle Beauty Can Be Picture Perfect Until, ..."
Rocky - "Swinging at Fighters and Serenading Turtles: ..."
Appropriate - "A Squabbling Family Kept in the Dark. In ‘A..."
Beauty and the Beast - "A Beauty and a Beast, but This One’s for Ad..."
Tales from Red Vienna - "Noble Widow Needs Cash. Nina Arianda Stars in..."
The Nance - "Tortured Soul of Burlesque Puts on Quite the Act"
Little Me - "If Nature’s a Generous Benefactor, a Girl C..."
La Belle et la Bête - "Tale as Old as Time, With Video Projections"
The Assembled Parties - "Throwback to the Days of Tasteful Opulence"
Orphans - "A Hostage Who Turns Into a Dad"
No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot - "Filling the Existential Void"
Regular Singing - "Bid Farewell to Memories Forever Present"
The Tribute Artist - "We Have the Stars; We Want the House. Charles..."
The Testament of Mary - "With a Vulture but No Angels"
The Trip to Bountiful - "Home Is Where the Years Disappear"
Here Lies Love (2013) - "A Rise to Power, Disco Round Included"
Pippin - "The Old Razzle-Dazzle, Fit for a Prince"
Sunset Baby - "Yes, Survival’s Important. But Then What?"
Bull - "On the Ropes, in a Special Ring of Office Hell"
Old Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) - "In the Scrim of Memory, Reality Itself"
On Your Toes - "This Showboat Knows How to Be Herself"
Transport Group's The Memory Show - "Caregiver and Patient, Bound by Blood and Whining"
Bunty Berman Presents - "Bollywood Without the Happy Ending"
Fiasco Theater's Into the Woods - "Familiar Forest, Made New"
Far From Heaven - "A Paradise and a Prison"
The Giacomo Variations - "Casanova Drops Some Coins in the Classical Jukebox"
Reasons to Be Happy - "Same Couples, Reshuffled by a Mellowing Playwright"
Cornelius - "Cheerfully Soldiering on as the End Draws Near"
Venice - "Of Soldiers Past and Future, With Swagger"
On the Town (Barrington Stage Company) - "Pressed for Time and Looking for Love"
The Two-Character Play - "Brother, Can You Spare My Sanity?"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - "Sweet and Sour, He’s the Candy Man"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - "Sweet and Sour, He’s the Candy Man"
The Old Woman 2013 - "Recognizable Guys You Might Not Recognize"
Love and Information - "57 Bits of Emotional Knowledge"
Peter and the Starcatcher (New World Stages) - "Effortless Flights of Fancy"
The Night Alive - "Among the Debris, Something Divine"
The Bridges of Madison County - "Hearts Ache in the Heartland. ‘Bridges of M..."
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare in the Park) - "Shakespearean Mood Swings in Progress"
Everything Is Ours - "A Couple, Into Themselves, Make Room for One More"
The Machine - "Analyzing the Moves of a King Garry Kasparov ..."
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play - "Stand Up, Survivors; Homer Is With You"
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - "A Songwriter Who Found Her Voice"
Romeo & Juliet - "Such Sweet Sorrow"
Machinal - "Woman Trapped in Modern Times (1920s Edition)"
I Am the Wind - "Converse All You Want, but Don’t Expect Connection"
The Glass Menagerie - "Wounded by Broken Memories"
King Lear (BAM 2014) - "With Rage, He Flails in a World Gone Deaf"
A Doll's House - "A Caged Wife, Desperately Spinning Her Wheel...."
Ode to Joy - "Can’t Hold Their Feelings, or Their Drink. ..."
Measure for Measure - "In a Decadent Vienna, Constancy Is Shown the ..."
Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (LONDON) - "A Tudor Soap Opera Fills a Stage: Royal Shake..."
Honeymoon in Vegas - "Tuneful Chutzpah and Schmaltz, Straddling Vegas and Broadway"
RoosevElvis - "Finding Your Flair, Pompadour Optional"
Fun Home - "Family as a Hall of Mirrors"
The Landing - "Wonder May Fade, but Lessons Linger"
The Snow Geese - "A Matriarch’s Cold Realities Pile Up"
Antony and Cleopatra - "Shakespeare Hits the Beach. An ‘Antony and ..."
Betrayal - "Threesome to Tantalize and Behold"
Domesticated - "After Extramarital Activities, Politician Looks for the Words"
The Jacksonian - "The Sweet Smell of Decay Pervades a Whodunit"
TWELFTH NIGHT AND RICHARD III - "Boys Will Be Boys (and Sometimes Girls)"
King Lear (London) - "Shakespeare’s Raging Monarch as a Modern-Day Dictator"
Intimacy - "Sure, Son, I’ll Be in Your Skin Flick: Thom..."
A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair - "Songs of Experience, the Two-Hearted Kind"
Good With People - "At a Lonely Hotel, Two Lives That Overlapped"
Taking Care of Baby - "A Story to Question, Word for Word"
Kinky Boots - "High Spirits, Higher Heels"
Kinky Boots The Musical - "High Spirits, Higher Heels"
Macbeth LCT - "Scottish King, Bewitched and Bewildered"
Adult - "These Two Leap to Judgment (Not That You Should, Too)"
Matilda the Musical - "Children of the World, Unite!"
RSC's Julius Caesar - "‘Julius Caesar’ at the Harvey Theater"
Cock - "In the Ring, the Spoils of Desire"
February House - "Tuneful Rooms of Their Own in Brooklyn"
Job - "An Earthy Take on a Heavenly Book"
My Children! My Africa! - "Caught in the Prison That Is Their Country"
The Common Pursuit - "English Literati, Cracking Wise"
Grace - "Faith, Doubt and All Sorts of Scars"
Harper Regan - "Sometimes You Just Need to Get Away"
'Tis Pity She's a Whore - "Blank Verse Delivered in Many Compromising Positions"
Cyrano de Bergerac - ""
Helen & Edgar - "At Home in a House of Horrors"
Forbidden Broadway: Alive And Kicking - "Don’t Cry for Them; It’s All in Nasty Fun"
A Celebration of Harold Pinter - "Playwright Presented as Poet"
5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche - "Choosing a Flaky Morsel for Armageddon Brunch"
Medieval Play - "The Hundred Years’ War Certainly Did Drag On"
Heresy - "Preaching and Converting Get a Young Man Into..."
Newsies - "Urchins With Punctuation"
End of the Rainbow - "A Star Who Was Born, Sparkled and Fell"
Evita - "Requiem for a Kingmaker"
Neutral Hero - "Small-Town Americans, Street by Street to Eternity"
The Heiress - "Interior Designs Conceal a House’s Dark Corners"
Sorry - "When Uncles (Ben, Sam) Need Help"
Annie - "When Plucky Meets Boozy"
Ivanov - "Misery Loves Chekhovian Company"
A Slow Air - "Siblings Divided by Familiar Yet Formidable Walls"
Peter and the Starcatcher - "Effortless Flights of Fancy"
The Performers - "Innocents Abroad in a Land of Naked Ambition"
Giant - "A Texas Tale Too Big for a Lone Star"
Murder Ballad - "Musical Triangle, All Sides Sharp"
In Masks Outrageous and Austere - "Last Resort, So Checkout Is a Problem"
Dead Accounts - "Prodigal Son, Dripping Sweat and Mystery"
The Anarchist - "War of Wills, Vocabularies and Virtues"
One Man, Two Guvnors - "Mistaken Identity May Be Closer Than It Appears"
Glengarry Glen Ross - "Fugue for Wrung-Out Tinhorns"
Clybourne Park - "Slashing the Tires on the Welcome Wagon"
A Streetcar Named Desire - "Hey, Stella! You Want to Banter?"
Picnic - "Kansas Heat That Has Little to Do With the Weather"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - "A Storm From the South, Brewing in a Bedroom"
The Lyons - "Waiting for Dad to Die: Laughs Pile Up"
Dogfight - "Cruel, Tuneful Jerk in Love"
Collision - "Unsettling News Intrudes Upon a Production’s Smirk"
Festen (the Celebration) - "A Haunted Hotel, a Haunted Family: Who Let the Ghosts Out?"
Nice Work If You Can Get It - "Falling in Love, Footstep by Footstep"
All The Rage - "Across a Wilderness to an Obscure Place Called ‘Self’"
Fiorello! - "Hizzoner Onstage: Sing Out, You Hoods and Hacks!"
Uncle Vanya- City Center - " Love Loses Its Balance at This Dacha"
Women of Will - "Shakespeare’s Mighty Sorority"
The Columnist - "Revealing Naked Power Behind Mask"
Really, Really - "Mapping ‘Whatever’ Lives"
Leap of Faith - "Sneaky Preacher, Without a Prayer"
Passion - "Close Enough to Singe Your Soul"
Cinderella - "Gowns From the House of Sincere & Snark"
An Early History of Fire - "Trying to Strike a Match Before the ’60s Were Ready to Blaze"
The Tempest - "A Family, and Mom’s in Charge"
Love's Labour's Lost - "In Screwball Comedy, a Shakespearean Truth"
Breakfast at Tiffany's - "More Waifish Than Wild, the Ingénue Returns"
Uncle Vanya(HERE Arts Cener 2012) - "Chekhov, Rendered Tongue Trippingly"
Lucky Guy - "Old-School Newsman, After Deadline"
Into the Woods at the Delacorte Theater - "A Witch, a Wish and Fairy Tale Agony"
Lonely, I'm Not - "A Match Oh So Perfectly Mismatched"
Bullet for Adolf - "Quarrelsome, Motley Crew: Flirting, Insulting, Drinking"
Harrison TX - "Where Small Talk Has Epic Meanings"
Heartless - "All the Discomforts of Home"
Tender Napalm - "Fighting to Have the Last Word"
Chaplin - "The Tramp, Beyond Limelight"
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - "Lorelei Is Back, Head Over Carats"
Man and Boy - "The Art of Wreaking Havoc With Other People’s Money"
The Lyons Off-Broadway - "The Curse of Kinship, but a Fear of Isolation"
No Place to Go - "No Livelihood, but One Lively Soundtrack"
The Mountaintop - "April 3, 1968. Lorraine Motel. Evening."
Chinglish - "Can’t Talk Very Good Your Language"
Love's Labor's Lost - "O, That Rowdy Passage From Celibate to Celebrate"
Merrily We Roll Along - "Time Traveling With Old Friends"
Other Desert Cities - "Painful Family Secrets Laid Bare"
Queen of the Mist - "Obsessed With Taking the Plunge"
How I Learned To Drive - "Going Along for the Ride With Uncle"
Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway - "A Master of Mass Flirtation"
Seminar - "Shredding Egos, One Semicolon at a Time"
Wild Animals You Should Know - "Boy Scouts, Binoculars and a Wilderness Agenda"
Uncle Vanya (2011) - "Chekhov’s Slugfest, With Pratfalls"
I Killed My Mother - "A Girl Between a Rock and a Very Lonely Place"
Traces - "Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!)"
Bonnie & Clyde - "Armed and Amorous, Committing Cold-Blooded Musical"
Early Plays - "A Triple Bill Offers Tastes of a Young and Se..."
The Cherry Orchard at CSC - "Breaking the Fourth Wall to Let Chekhov Out"
Misterman - "The Force of a Personality Can Conjure Up a World"
Rent - "That Ragtag Bohemian Army Returns"
Ten Cents a Dance - "Music, Memories and Regret"
Beyond the Horizon - "Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?"
Once at NYTW - "A Love Affair With Music, Maybe With Each Other"
Fela! - "Well-Traveled Revolutionary Returns"
Bluebird - "He’ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go"
Carrie - "Prom Night, Bloody Prom Night"
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Massachusetts) - "Bess Claims Top Billing in New Version of Gershwins’ Classic"
Tribes - "World of Silence and Not Listening"
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) - "A Lost Generation Drinks Up, Always on Jake Barnes’s Tab"
Follies - "Darkness Around the Spotlight"
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - "Reincarnation All Over Again"
The Lady from Dubuque - "Who Am I? Why Are We Here? Oh, Hello, Death"
Arias With a Twist 2011 - "Glorifying the American, Uh, Alien"
Lysistrata Jones - "Yes, Even Sexting Is Off Limits"
Alexis. A Greek Tragedy - "Back to the Barricades, Antigone"
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - "A New Storm’s Brewing Down on Catfish Row"
Hot Lunch Apostles - "The G-String Brigade Faces a Destitute Age"
The Kreutzer Sonata - "Confession Spun Across the Miles"
Sweet and Sad - "An Eloquence in Groping for Words"
The Road to Mecca - "Those Who Seek to Make Art Often Find Themselves Alone"
Richard III (2012) - "It’s a Dehumanizing Business, Becoming Top Dog"
The Submission - "He’s Written a Play. Who’s the Author?"
Wit - "Artifice as Armor in a Duel With Death"
The Threepenny Opera 2011 - "Toxic Dispatches From Weimar"
Death of a Salesman - "American Dreamer, Ambushed by the Territory"
Once - "Another Pint of Melancholy"
The Illusion - "Fantastical Adventures of a Missing Son"
Master Class - "Enough About You; Let’s Revisit My Glory Days"
'Night Mother - "Mother-Daughter Angst, With Death in the Wings"
A Raisin in the Sun (2004) - "A Breakthrough 50's Drama Revived in a Suspenseful Mood"
After the Fall - "One Guilt Trip, Plain, And Hold the Agony"
Jumpers - "Odd Brits A-Leaping With Bodies Or Brains"
King Lear (2004) - "A Fiery Fall Into the Abyss, Unknowing And Unknown"
Sly Fox - "Stealthy, Wealthy, Joke-Wise"
The Book of Mormon - ""
Through a Glass Darkly - "Under Pretty Skin, Madness Lurks"
Macbeth - Theatre for a New Audience - ""
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - ""
La Cage Aux Folles - "Her Sequins, Plumes and Foghorn Voice"
One Arm - "Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb a..."
Marie and Bruce - "There’s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour"
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark - ""
Twentieth Century - "Three Egos, Two Stars, One War"
Fiddler on the Roof - "A Cozy Little McShtetl"
La Cage Aux Folles - "Family Guys Who Are What They Are"
Pacific Overtures - "Repatriating the Japanese Sondheim"
Big River - "Twain's Tale, With Music for the Ear and Eye"
Anything Goes - ""
Assassins - "A Demon Gallery of Glory Hounds"
Bombay Dreams - "Coloring By the Numbers"
Brooklyn - "Excuse Me, Got Any Spare Fame?"
Caroline, or Change - "A Tough, Sad Maid Comes to Broadway"
Dracula, The Musical - "The Bat Awakens, Stretches, Yawns"
The Frogs - "Gods, Greeks and Ancient Shtick"
700 Sundays - "My Family Values, City Slickers"
Catch Me If You Can - "Scamming as Fast as He Can"
The Year of Magical Thinking - "The Sound of One Heart Breaking"
A Moon for the Misbegotten (2007) - "A Moonlit Night on the Farm, Graveyard Ready"
The Pirate Queen - "Oceandance, With Swordplay"
The Little Dog Laughed - "Actor in the Closet, Agent in Control"
Three Days of Rain - "Enough Said About 'Three Days of Rain.' Let's Talk Julia Roberts!"
Les Miserables (2006) - "Didn't We Just See This Revolution?"
The Apple Tree - "Adam, She’s Ms. Madam"
The Pajama Game - "Dresses Are Fine, but Pajamas Are Divine"
The Threepenny Opera (2006) - "'Threepenny Opera' Brings Renewed Decadence to Studio 54"
Grey Gardens - "Sometimes a Nightingale Emerges"
The Drowsy Chaperone - "Nostalgic 'Drowsy Chaperone' Opens on Broadway"
The Wedding Singer - "Something Borrowed, Something Renewed: The Re..."
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way - "A Dysfunctional Family in Search of a Sitcom"
Sleep No More - "Shakespeare Slept Here, Albeit Fitfully"
After the Night and the Music - "A Sketch Artist Draws the Outlines of Neurotic Urban Angst"
Brooklyn Boy - "Crossing the River to Find the Past"
Doubt - "A Nun Who Is Certain, Even if Truth Is Not"
Mark Twain Tonight! - "Storyteller at Work: 'Mark Twain Tonight!' and as Ever"
Primo - "Crystallizing Legacy of Auschwitz Survivor"
Souvenir - "A Mighty Squeal From a Big Heart"
Steel Magnolias - "Teasing Out Hair and Sisterly Ties"
The Blonde in the Thunderbird - "Self-Help Expert Gets Back Her Own"
The Pillowman - "A Storytelling Instinct Revels in Horror's Fun"
War Horse - ""
Side Effects - "When Golden Couple Melts Down, Puddles Ensue"
All Shook Up - "A Hunk, a Hunk of Burnin' Nostalgia"
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life - "You Just Can't Keep a Good Broadway Diva Down"
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - "She's a Diva on Wheels of Song"
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - "The Art of the Con, Reprised"
Good Vibrations - "To Everything There Is a Purpose"
In My Life - "Where an Angel Fearlessly Treads"
Lennon - "Then John Met Yoko, and the Rest Is a Musical"
Little Women - "A Tomboy With Gumption (and Her Sisters)"
The Color Purple - "One Woman's Awakening, in Double Time"
Light in the Piazza - "A Wise Autumnal American in Florence"
Picked - "Actors Live Their Double Lives, Both on the Screen and Off"
Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance - "Insult Alert: Duck if You Can, Possums"
Democracy - "A Torn Land of Torn Hearts Lost in a Mist of Deception"
Drowning Crow - "Chekhov Shows He Can Rap"
Gem of the Ocean - "Sailing Into Collective Memory"
Match - "A Folksy Eccentric Who's Got a Secret"
Reckless - "She's All Smiles (Until She's Not)"
Gypsy - "New Momma In Charge"
Sight Unseen - "A Fragile Victim of Love Long Past"
Nine - "Gals, Gams and Glamour"
Sixteen Wounded - "Personal Friends, Political Pawns"
Wonderful Town - "Sis, Today The Village, Tomorrow The World"
A Year With Frog and Toad - "Woodland Creatures Sing, Act and Dress Well"
Twelve Angry Men - "Back in a Sweaty Room With 12 Seething Men"
Little Shop of Horrors - "A Hungry Actor? Audrey II Is Back"
Never Gonna Dance - "Tapping Toward Love In Celebrated Slippers"
Taboo - "Flagrantly Stylish, Outrageously Sexy"
Boy From Oz - "Flash of 70's Sequins"
The Normal Heart - ""
Urban Cowboy - "Just Guys and Gals Lookin' for Love"
Amour - "A French Milquetoast's Talent Lights the Fuse of Mischief"
Dance of the Vampires - "It Ain't Over Till the Goth Vampire Sings"
Unnatural Acts: Harvard's Secret Court of 1920 - "Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago"
The People in the Picture - ""
Hairspray - "Through Hot Pink Glasses, a World That's Nice"
Movin' Out - "In a Top 40 State Of Mind"
Butley - "Zingers Shoot Forth From Inside a Toxic Fog"
Anna in the Tropics - "The Poetry of Yearning, The Artistry of Seduction"
Deuce - "Misty Watercolor Memories, Anyone?"
Sweet Smell of Success - "A Faustian Pact in a City of Demons"
Frost/Nixon - "When David Faced a Wounded Goliath"
Thoroughly Modern Millie - "All Right, Everyone: Smile!"
Inherit The Wind - "Bibles Thumping, Suspenders Snapping"
Journey's End - "For Comrades in Arms, Waiting and Nothingness"
Flower Drum Song - "New Coat of Paint for Old Pagoda"
Mauritius - "Three Thugs and a Stamp Collection"
Into the Woods - "Sondheim Reprise Puts Music Ahead of the Journey"
Old Acquaintance - "Revisiting Old Friends Who Write and Fight"
Enchanted April - "Releasing the Hedonist In Repressed Women"
La Boheme - "Sudden Streak of Red Warms a Cold Garret"
Pygmalion - "Forecast: Rain in Spain, No Chance of Song"
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures - "Debating Dialectics and Dad’s Suicide Plan"
Man of La Mancha - "Endangered Noble Species Takes a Fling On a Dream"
King Lear (BAM) - "He’s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don’t Dare Run Away"
The Boys From Syracuse - "No Sobs, No Sorrows, No Sighs"
An Almost Holy Picture - "Seeker, Behold: The Answer Is Here, All Around You"
Life X3 - "A Dinner Becomes A Disaster, In Triplicate"
Compulsion - "The Young Girl Pulls the Strings in This Relationship"
All's Well That Ends Well - "Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman"
Diary of a Madman - "Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too"
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark - "A Black Actress Trying to Rise Above a Maid"
The Ritz - "Good, Clean Fun"
Cyrano de Bergerac 2007 - "Rapier Wit and a Nose for Poetry"
The Homecoming - "You Can Go Home Again, but You’ll Pay the Consequences"
Fortune's Fool - "Listening To a Life Drain Out Of a Bottle"
Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune - "Going From Sex to Intimacy"
Barefoot in the Park - "Early Simon, Dressed by Mizrahi"
Imaginary Friends - "Literary Lions, Claws Bared"
Come Back, Little Sheba - "So Quiet You Can Hear a Heart Stop"
Metamorphoses - "Dreams of 'Metamorphoses' Echo in a Larger Space"
Faith Healer - "Ralph Fiennes, Portraying the Gaunt Genius in 'Faith Healer'"
Festen - "Haunting Memories of Daddy Dearest in 'Festen'"
Take Me Out - "Love Affair With Baseball And a Lot of Big Ideas"
The Play What I Wrote - "British Gags Run Amok In Pratfalls"
Frankenstein - "It’s (Gasp!) Alive, Not to Mention Peeved"
Rabbit Hole - "Mourning a Child in a Silence That's Unbearably Loud"
The Retreat From Moscow - "Here Lies The Ruin Of a Love"
Radio Golf - "In the Rush to Progress, the Past Is Never Too Far Behind"
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? - "A Secret Paramour Who Nibbles Tin Cans"
The Violet Hour - "Jazz Generation Sees The Future: It's Not Cool"
The Graduate - "http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/trevie..."
Rock 'n' Roll - "Going to Prague in 1968, but Not Without His Vinyl"
Vincent in Brixton - "Before Madness There Was Love"
Shining City - "'Shining City': Conor McPherson's Study of Loneliness in a Crowd"
The Mystery of Charles Dickens - "Crash Course in Dickens, Going at Full Tilt"
Talk Radio - "The Mouth That Roars, With the Soul That Crumbles"
The Coast of Utopia (Part 1- Voyage) - "Young, Restless and Russian, Devouring Big Ideas"
Topdog/Underdog - "Not to Worry, Mr. Lincoln, It's Just A Con Game"
The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck) - "History’s Sweep, in Words and Silence"
Dinner at Eight - "Setting the Table for Indigestion"
The Coast of Utopia (part 3- Salvage) - "Those Storm-Tossed Revolutionaries Reach Port"
The Farnsworth Invention - "A Farm Boy and a Mogul, and How They Changed the World"
History Boys - "Rivals for Young Hearts and Minds in Alan Ben..."
Lieutenant of Inishmore - "'The Lieutenant of Inishmore': Blood and Glee in Rural Ireland"
Good People - ""
Follies at Kennedy Center - "Broadway Babies’ Glory Days"
The Seafarer - "A Devil of a Christmas"
The Woman in White - "A Tutor, a Triangle and Hearts That Sing"
The Vertical Hour - "Battle Zones in Hare Country"
I'm Not Rappaport - "Still Talking, as if Time Paused"
110 in the Shade - "Neither Rain Nor Love, Till a Guy Promises Both"
Master Harold... And the Boys - "Same Actor and Play; Similarities End There"
Morning's at Seven - "Wry Smiles At the Pitfalls Of Closeness"
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - "Laughing Off The Hurt"
Company - "A Revival Whose Surface of Tundra Conceals a Volcano"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003) - "Big Daddy's Ego Defies Death and His Family"
Henry IV - "Falstaff and Hal, With War Afoot"
High Fidelity - "Lost at the Record Store"
Long Day's Journey Into Night - "A Mother's Haunting Presence In O'Neill's Unraveling Family"
Private Lives (2002) - "Take Hate, Add Love and Shake Tenderly for a Coward Cocktail"
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - "Old Blues, New Riffs"
Peter and the Starcatcher Off-Broadway - "Peter Pan (the Early Years), With Bounding Main and All"
Is He Dead? - "It’s Not Life on the Mississippi, Jean-François Honey"
The Crucible - "Two Against Mob Rule Who Can Turn Up the Heat"
Salome (Broadway) - "Veils or No Veils, Whatever She Wants She Gets"
The Elephant Man - "A Mirror To Reflect A Grotesque Society"
Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway - "‘Kiki & Herb’: The Road to Catharsis ..."
Tartuffe - "When An Apple Loves A Worm"
Lestat - "Anne Rice's Vampires, With Elton John's Music, Take to the Stage"
The Caretaker (2003) - "Forces Cruel, Kindly and Shifty in Pinterland"
LoveMusik - "Speaking Love With Kurt and Lotte"
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me - "The Story of a Guy Who May Not Be Martin Shor..."
Ring Of Fire - "His Songs Abound, but Where's Johnny?"
Tarzan - "Tarzan Arrives on Broadway, Airborne"
A Touch of the Poet - "The Transformation of a Poseur, and the Loved..."
Absurd Person Singular - "Holiday Math: Three Couples Means Marital Misery Times Three"
The Producers - "A Scam That'll Knock 'Em Dead"
Thou Shalt Not - "One Flew Over the Cuckold's Nest"
The Women - "Ow! Watch Those Claws"
42nd Street - "You've Got to Come Back a . . . You Know"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - "The Poetry of Yearning, The Artistry of Seduction"
Bells Are Ringing - " A Chameleon With a Phone"
Follies (2001) - "A Gritty Vision Of Faded Gold"
45 Seconds From Broadway - "Broken Lives and Healing at the Coffee Shop"
Noises Off - "A Voyage to the Outer Limits of Hilarity"
Arcadia - "The 180-Year Itch, Metaphysically Speaking"
Hedda Gabler - "An Unhappy Monster Made Human"
If You Ever Leave Me... I'm Going With You - "That Heavenly Match Made on 'The Merv Griffin Show'"
Glengarry Glen Ross(2005) - "Here, Honor Is Profane and Words Do Hurt"
Design for Living - "A Scandal In Bohemia"
Julius Caesar (2005) - "A Big-Name Brutus in a Caldron of Chaos"
Dance of Death - "To Stay Alive, Snipe, Snipe"
King Hedley II - "The Agonized Arias Of Everyman In Poverty and Pain"
Q.E.D. - "'QED': Iconoclastic Physicist for All Occasions"
Sexaholix - "Jokes Aside, It's the Hips That Do the Job"
Hello Again - "Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish"
Stones in His Pockets - "Wearing Everyone's Shoes, Yet Being Themselves"
On Golden Pond - "Hello, Death? NO!!!"
Seascape - "Twilight by the Sea With Talking Lizards"
The Invention of Love - "Housman's Hell, Stoppard's Style"
The Glass Menagerie (2005) - "A 'Menagerie' Full of Stars, Silhouettes and Weird Sounds"
The Odd Couple - "Misery Loves a Roommate"
Three Hotels - "Marital Bankruptcy Filed in Faraway Places"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005) - "Marriage as Blood Sport: A No-Win Game"
Sweeney Todd (2005) - "Grand Guignol, Spare and Stark"
Sweet Charity - "'Sweet Charity,' After a Rocky Road, Finally Reaches Broadway"
Lysistrata Jones (Off-Broadway) - "Happy Sweating and Singing"
Women of Will 2010 - "Star-Crossed, Tamed or Tragic: A Tour of Shakespeare’s Heroines"
Time Stands Still - "Wounds of War Run Deeper Than Ever"
The Merchant of Venice (Broadway) - "Railing at a Money-Mad World"
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - ""
Race - "A New Team Tackles Mamet’s Moral Fable of P..."
The Winter's Tale (2010) - "Jealousy, Blow Thy Mighty Winds!"
La Bête - ""
Sweeney Todd - "Sondheim Seen in Light and Shadow"
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - "Sondheim Seen in Light and Shadow"
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church - "Prolific Communication From an Isolated Man"
Musashi - "Turning Swords Into Slapsticks"
Wings - "The Shadows of an Airborne Life"
Cymbeline - "Simply Shakespeare, No Tangled Web"
The 39 Steps Off-Broadway - "Revisiting ‘Carnage’ and ‘39 Steps’ in New Incarnations"
Driving Miss Daisy - ""
Creditors - "A Sly Suggestion Is All It May Take to Kill a Marriage"
Angels in America - "This Time, the Angel Is in the Details"
Sondheim on Sondheim - ""
The New York Idea - "Love in City of Intemperate Mores"
The Merry Wives of Windsor - "A World of Silliness, but No Winking This Time"
In the Wake - "A Whirlwind of Words and Passions"
Gruesome Playground Injuries - "Love Hurts, and for Some Couples, That’s the Point"
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - ""
Three Sisters (2011) - "Russian Ennui, American Idiom"
The Witch of Edmonton - "Black-Magic Woman"
The Kid - "Just Like Other Dads (Well, Almost)"
This Wide Night - "Two Ex-Cellmates Disoriented by Time"
Big Fish - "A Dad’s Tall Tales and a Down-to-Earth Son"
Julius Caesar - "Friends, Romans, Countrywomen"
That Face - "Do You Have a Mother? Then You Have Someone to Blame"
The Merchant of Venice (Broadway) - "Love and Dirty, Sexy Ducats"
Trust - "Ah, Dominatrix: I Knew You Way Back in High School"
Next to Normal - "The Waters Are More Still, but Just as Dark"
A Little Night Music - "A Weekend in the Country With Eros and Thanatos"
Lingua Franca - "And Noisily Flows the Arno"
The Capeman - "‘Capeman’ Outdoors, Starring the City"
Restoration - "Beneath the Surface, More and More Layers"
Richard I I I (2010) - "In Power Grab, the Force Is With Him"
A Delicate Balance - "Voices Pitched to a Fine-Tuned Hollow Sound"
The Memory Show - "Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key"
Hedda Gabler (Off-Broadway) - "An Audience Visits With Hedda Gabler at Home, a Real Home"
Troilus and Cressida - "The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View"
Vision Disturbance - "Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up"
Me, Myself & I - "I Know You Are, but What Am I, and Who Is He?"
The Break of Noon - "He’s Born-Again but Still Obnoxious"
The Collection & A Kind of Alaska - "Essence of Pinterland, a Terrain Both Warm and Flecked With Ice"
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - "Body Slam to the American Dream"
The Sun Also Rises (The Select) - "For Whom the Glass Is Always Half-Empty"
The Red Shoes - "Dance-Struck Little Girls: Run! Run in Horror!"
The Little Foxes - "A Dysfunctional Family, Greedy With ‘the Gimmes’"
The Divine Sister - "No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun"
Brief Encounter - "Arm’s-Length Soul Mates, Swooning but Stoically Chaste"
The Great Game: Afghanistan - "The Curtain Rises: Enter, Reality"
Johnny Baseball - "The Bambino, and Other Curses of the Red Sox"
The Pitmen Painters - "Stoking a Fiery Passion for Art"
Mrs. Warren's Profession - ""
Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte - "Egon Schiele Seen From Many Angles"
Gatz - "Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past"
Whatever, Heaven Allows - "If Douglas Sirk and Milton Walked Into a Bar ..."
The Royal Family - "Move Over, Darling, the Spotlight Is Calling"
The Temperamentals - "The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution"
Still Life - "When Death Looms Large, Why Photograph Chickens?"
A Streetcar Named Desire Off-Broadway - " A Fragile Flower Rooted to the Earth"
Telephone - "Bell’s Legacy: The Lonely Crowd of Voices Inside Each Head"
The Seagull - "Thwarted Souls’ Broken Wings"
The Third Story - "For Some Mothers, Letting Go Is So Hard to Do"
Three Changes - "In a Fragmented World, the Search for Family ..."
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet - "Global Warming for a Cold Family"
Habit - "You Have a Role in This Play: Peeping Tom"
Sweet Bird of Youth - "She’s Old and Faded; He’s Young and Trapped"
Uncle Vanya (2009) - "Provincial Russians, Getting Very Physical"
Waves - "Six Lives Ebb and Flow, Interconnected and Alone"
The Addams Family - ""
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them - "Panties, Squirrels and Lots of Ammo"
Wig Out! - "Families Come in All Shapes and Hairstyles"
Anyone Can Whistle - "A Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness"
Uncle Vanya - Brooklyn Academy of Music - "Chekhov’s Aristocrats, Ever Absorbed in Themselves"
The Miracle Worker - ""
The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part 3 - "Life, Death and Family in Foote’s Texas"
the story of my life - "Male Bonding: It’s a Wonderful Friendship"
Love Never Dies - "Same Phantom, Different Spirit"
The Scottsboro Boys Off-Broadway - "So Hard to Put Into Words (and Music)"
Next Fall - "Leaps of Faith to Transcend Urban Angst"
La Cage Aux Folles - "Squint, and the World Is Beautiful"
I'll Be Damned - "Help for the Friendless, but at a Price"
The Really Big Once - "A Return to the Scene of a Tragedy of Drama"
A Tale Of Two Cities - "Revolution (and Love) on Their Minds"
to be or not to be - "Greasepaint Can Be Mightier Than Pen or Sword"
Curtains - "Stagestruck Sleuth, Crazy for Clues and Cues"
top girls - "Ladies Who Lunch? No, Here’s to the Power Players"
Waiting For Godot (2009) - "Tramps for Eternity"
The Book of Grace - "A Family Triangle of Archetypes Amid the Sandbags of America"
Young Frankenstein - "Who Put the Trance in Transylvania?"
Macbeth(2008) - "Toil and Trouble Are Still Bubbling Over"
Ben Brantley - "Effigies and Aliens Cavort in a Cross-Dressing Wonderland"
blasted - "Humanity Gets Only a Bit Part"
buffalo gal - "Stranger in Newly Strange Lands: Home and Theater"
chasing manet - "Sailing Off, Wheelchairs at the Prow"
Ben Brantley - "Duck! These Monks Have Feet and Fists of Fury"
Ben Brantley - "Better the Mother You Know Than the Other One"
Ben Brantley - "On a Barren Isle, Gift of the Gab and Subversive Charm"
desir - "Liaisons Dangereuses and Bodies Acrobatic"
Ben Brantley - "To Medicate, or Not to Medicate? That Is One Question"
Ben Brantley - "Resurrecting an Artist’s Greatest Creation: Herself"
Ben Brantley - "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Bruises and Battle Scars"
Ben Brantley - "Family’s Future in Grandma’s Flashbacks"
forbidden broadway - "Giving Their Regards by Skewering the Shows"
the grand inquisitor - "Holy Man and Holier in a Battle for Power"
happiness - "Accidental Tourists, on a Train to Eternity"
in conflict - "Voices of Inexperience, Relating War’s Horrors"
Sunday in the Park with George - "Down by the Blue Purple Yellow Red Water"
All About Me - ""
Ben Brantley - "Help! Stranded on the Outer Fringes of Your Lives"
the new century - "Zingers Hurtling (Duck if You Can)"
Ben Brantley - "Love With a Proper Atheist and Other Leaps of Faith"
Ben Brantley - "Resurrecting an Artist’s Greatest Creation: Herself"
opening night - "A Natural Cassavetes Woman, Theatricalized, M..."
Hamlet - Shakespeare in the Park - "Whips and Scorns of Time, Stinging All They Touch"
Aftermath - "Exiles With Harrowing Tales From the Chaos of War-Torn Iraq"
Arias with a Twist - "Effigies and Aliens Cavort in a Cross-Dressing Wonderland"
port authority - "Three Dubliners’ Plain Poetry of Everyday Loss"
Ben Brantley - "The Silence and the Fury Within Six American Lives"
Ben Brantley - "No Sex, Please, We’re British Indians"
reasons to be pretty - "Listen, You Brat, to Plain Truths About the Beauty Myth"
Road Show - "Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn"
Ben Brantley - "Singing a Song of the Lovestruck Life"
ruined - "War’s Terrors, Through a Brothel Window"
The Cherry Orchard Off Broadway - "All Alone in a Crowded Country Home"
Coraline - "Better the Mother You Know Than the Other One"
North Atlantic - "A Military Musical With a Twist"
The Cripple of Inishmann - "On a Barren Isle, Gift of the Gab and Subversive Charm"
Distracted - " To Medicate, or Not to Medicate? That Is One Question"
Farragut North - "Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle"
Fifty Words - "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Bruises and Battle Scars"
The First Breeze of Summer - "Family’s Future in Grandma’s Flashbacks"
From Up Here - "Have a Nice Day at School, Sweetie. Don’t Kill Anyone."
The Garden of Earthly Delights - "From a Famous Painting, a Jolting Spectacle of Flesh"
THE JACKIE LOOK - "Karen Finley Wears Pearls, Not Chocolate"
taking over - "Endangered Species in Gentrifying Brooklyn"
Ben Brantley - "Bell’s Legacy: The Lonely Crowd of Voices Inside Each Head"
Hair Off-Broadway - "Let the Sunshine In, and the Shadows"
Ben Brantley - "For Some Mothers, Letting Go Is So Hard to Do"
Idiot Savant - "Still Bouncing Off the Fun House Walls"
Ben Brantley - "In a Fragmented World, the Search for Family ..."
Ben Brantley - "Provincial Russians, Getting Very Physical"
La Didone - "Lost in Space With Dido and Aeneas"
vincent river - "In Modern London, Some Long Shadows of Despair"
Ben Brantley - "Six Lives Ebb and Flow, Interconnected and Alone"
Ben Brantley - "Panties, Squirrels and Lots of Ammo"
Clybourne Park Off Broadway - "Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors"
Ben Brantley - "Families Come in All Shapes and Hairstyles"
Ben Brantley - "Alas, Poor Leontes (That Good King Has Not Been Himself of Late)"
Ben Brantley - "An Insignificant Riddle and the Other Women in an Orphan’s Life"
Ben Brantley - "A Fragile Flower Rooted to the Earth"
Mouth to Mouth - "Help! Stranded on the Outer Fringes of Your Lives"
Dreamgirls - "Hopeful Divas Back Where It All Began"
Next Fall Off-Broadway - "Love With a Proper Atheist and Other Leaps of Faith"
brother/sister plays - "Lives in the Bayou Tap All the Realism of Dreams"
Ben Brantley - "A Minuet Between Sexual Predators"
Occupant - "Resurrecting an Artist’s Greatest Creation: Herself"
The Emperor Jones - "Absolutely Corrupt"
Red - ""
keep your pantheon and school - "Playing With Fire and Farce: It’s Mamet"
The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part 2 - "An Insignificant Riddle and the Other Women in an Orphan’s Life"
Othello - "The General in His High-Tech Labyrinth"
Prayer for My Enemy - "The Silence and the Fury Within Six American Lives"
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Off-Broadway) - "Old Hickory, Rock Star President"
The Pride of Parnell - "Looking Back, in Wistfulness and in Stereo"
Quartett - "A Minuet Between Sexual Predators"
So Help Me God! - "Fasten Your Seat Belt, Would-Be Diva"
Rafta, Rafta - "No Sex, Please, We’re British Indians"
Romantic Poetry - "Singing a Song of the Lovestruck Life"
A View From The Bridge - "A View From Brooklyn of Tragedy Most Classic"
Present Laughter - ""
The Sound and the Fury - "Faulkner’s Haunted Family, Moving in and Out of Time"
Mr. & Mrs. Fitch - "In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh"
Ben Brantley - "Broken Hearts, Bleeding Psyches"
A Lie of the Mind - "Home Is Where the Soul Aches"
The Grand Manner - "Life Lessons, and Sweet Siren Song of The-a-tuh"
Blithe Spirit - "The Medium as the Messenger"
Boeing-Boeing - "Up, Up and Away (and Watch Those Swinging Doors)"
The 39 Steps - "Spies, Blonde and a Guy Go North by Northwest"
a chorus line - "From the Top: Five, Six, Seven, Eight!"
Chicago - "A Lively Legacy, A Come-Hither Air"
The Lion King - "Cub Comes of Age: A Twice-Told Cosmic Tale"
Grease - "As Seen on TV! Danny and Sandy 4-Ever and Ever"
Next to Normal - "Fragmented Psyches, Uncomfortable Emotions: Sing Out!"
shrek - "The Belching Green Ogre Has a Song in His Heart"
South Pacific - "Optimist Awash in the Tropics"
legally blonde - "Candy Worship in the Temple of the Prom Queen"
West Side Story - "Our Gangs"
Wicked - "THEATER REVIEW; There's Trouble In Emerald City"
Wishful Drinking - "Just Me and My Celebrity Shadows"
Avenue Q - "Pulling Heartstrings, Racy Puppets Return"
13 - "Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years"
A Man For All Seasons - "Martyr Me a Little (the Perils of Thomas)"
33 Variations - "Beethoven and Fonda: Broadway Soul Mates"
9 to 5 broadway - "Sisterhood vs. Boss, on a New Battlefield"
Mary Stuart - "Must I Remind Your Majesty, Two’s a Crowd?"
a steady rain - "A Sentimental Journey Over Brutal Terrain"
The Norman Conquests - "Unrequited Lust, in Triplicate"
november - "Mamet, Cornered in the Oval Office"
all my sons - "Oedipus & Company"
oleanna - "He Said, She Said, but What Exactly Happened?"
pal joey - "The Cad! (Dames Could Write a Book)"
American Buffalo - "A Junk Shop Breeding Best-Laid Plans"
The American Plan - "Rapunzel in the Catskills"