First Nighter: Tanya Saracho's "Fade," Geoff Sobelle's "The Object Lesson," Robert Holman's "Jonah and Otto" by David Finkle

The pressing reason to see Jonah and Otto is to watch what Simonian and Gormley do with their meaty roles, as directed by

First Nighter: Tanya Saracho's "Fade," Geoff Sobelle's "The Object Lesson," Robert Holman's "Jonah and Otto" by David Finkle

She lets the audience get ahead of her. The problem becomes that rather than having patrons follow the Lucia-Abel development

First Nighter: Tanya Saracho's "Fade," Geoff Sobelle's "The Object Lesson," Robert Holman's "Jonah and Otto" by David Finkle

First Nighter: Anna Jordan's 'Yen' Forcibly Plugs for Troubled Youths by David Finkle

Given the circumstances, the somewhat contained Hench is charged on a daily basis with bringing up Bobbie, who would likely

First Nighter: Anna Jordan's 'Yen' Forcibly Plugs for Troubled Youths by David Finkle

Director Trip Cullman pulls no punches as, among other things, Hench and Bobbie indulge in typical sibling rivalry that often

First Nighter: Anna Jordan's 'Yen' Forcibly Plugs for Troubled Youths by David Finkle

Easy Watching: Agatha Christie's "The Witness for the Prosecution" in Must-See New Television Version by David Finkle

Incidentally, the plot twists also have a long-range effect on Emily's loyal, put-upon retainer, Janet McIntyre (Monica Doran

Easy Watching: Agatha Christie's "The Witness for the Prosecution" in Must-See New Television Version by David Finkle

Now another nifty version our way comes from screenwriter Sarah Phelps and from Acorn (airing Monday, January 30, check listings

Easy Watching: Agatha Christie's "The Witness for the Prosecution" in Must-See New Television Version by David Finkle

First Nighter: Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" Jacked Up to Today, New York Neo-Futurists Attempt "The Great American Drama" by David Finkle

What ensues as they run down the long list of requirements--at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre/A.R.T. New York Theatres

First Nighter: Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" Jacked Up to Today, New York Neo-Futurists Attempt "The Great American Drama" by David Finkle

For the record, bassist Uton Onyejekwe, drummer-mandolinist Titus Tompkins, keyboardist Rocky Vega and bandleader-guitarist

First Nighter: Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" Jacked Up to Today, New York Neo-Futurists Attempt "The Great American Drama" by David Finkle

First Nighter: "Yours Unfaithfully" Yet Another Sparkling Mint Theater Company Discovery by David Finkle

Let's just say that the Mint's Yours Unfaithfully is well dressed in every possible department. Let's also just ask if there

First Nighter: "Yours Unfaithfully" Yet Another Sparkling Mint Theater Company Discovery by David Finkle

Kaczorowski also remembers there was a time when men wore brown suits, and he acts on that. Dr. Kirby wears a brown spiffy

First Nighter: "Yours Unfaithfully" Yet Another Sparkling Mint Theater Company Discovery by David Finkle

Jason O'Connell Talks Batman in "The Dork Night," Benjamin Evett Is the Ancient Mariner in "Albatross" by David Finkle

Batman swept Jason O'Connell off his equilibrium when he was just a lad, and he's lived to tell the tale, which he's enthusiastically

Jason O'Connell Talks Batman in "The Dork Night," Benjamin Evett Is the Ancient Mariner in "Albatross" by David Finkle

When O'Connell, born in Commack and educated at Hofstra, begins his peregrinations and his many actor impersonations, he

Jason O'Connell Talks Batman in "The Dork Night," Benjamin Evett Is the Ancient Mariner in "Albatross" by David Finkle

First Nighter: Harriet Walter's Prospero in Phyllida Lloyd's Blazing "The Tempest" by David Finkle

This, of course, is no reason for anyone to pass up the enormous pleasures Lloyd, Walters and company bring to it. There

First Nighter: Harriet Walter's Prospero in Phyllida Lloyd's Blazing "The Tempest" by David Finkle

Among the other tricks Lloyd has up her sleeve is the strung-together detritus (many empty plastic bottles and other junk

First Nighter: Harriet Walter's Prospero in Phyllida Lloyd's Blazing "The Tempest" by David Finkle

First Nighter: Martin McDonagh's Brilliant "Beauty Queen of Leenane" in Brilliant Garry Hynes Revival at BAM by David Finkle

A particular talent McDonagh has is lodging in his plots implications of what's to come so that spectators sense the untenable

First Nighter: Martin McDonagh's Brilliant "Beauty Queen of Leenane" in Brilliant Garry Hynes Revival at BAM by David Finkle

Complaining about her bad leg--the chronic "bone on bone" pain--Mag has no need to do for herself. She has forty-ish daughter

First Nighter: Martin McDonagh's Brilliant "Beauty Queen of Leenane" in Brilliant Garry Hynes Revival at BAM by David Finkle

First Nighter: Harold Prince Shows Off His "Candide" Again for New York City Opera by David Finkle

Much more than just enhancing the revival is longtime Prince choreographer Pat Birch. She's charged with dreaming up all

First Nighter: Harold Prince Shows Off His "Candide" Again for New York City Opera by David Finkle

Just to be exact, this is not the original 1955 version with Lillian Hellman script. (More about that later.) Just to be

First Nighter: Harold Prince Shows Off His "Candide" Again for New York City Opera by David Finkle

First Nighter: Sholem Asch's Inflammatory 1923 "God of Vengeance" at La Mama, Jonny Donahoe's Adorable "Every Brilliant Thing" on by David Finkle

The physical look (as opposed to the Indecent production) isn't convincing, perhaps due to a restrictive budget. Budget may

First Nighter: Sholem Asch's Inflammatory 1923 "God of Vengeance" at La Mama, Jonny Donahoe's Adorable "Every Brilliant Thing" on by David Finkle

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have now documented the enterprise but without viewers' ability to participate--a restriction

First Nighter: Sholem Asch's Inflammatory 1923 "God of Vengeance" at La Mama, Jonny Donahoe's Adorable "Every Brilliant Thing" on by David Finkle

First Nighter: Travis Russ's "Gorey," Drew Droege's "Bright Colors and Bold Patterns," The Simon Green-David Shrubsole "Life by David Finkle

"Life is for Living" may only be 70 minutes in length, but it's appreciably more in breadth and depth. Destiny's tot himself