Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Metropolitan Opera concludes Robert Lepage's misconceived version of Wagner's "Ring Cycle."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMMonday, January 23, 2012
John Jesurun's multimedia work may be more effective online than in the theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, January 22, 2012
Gina Kim's autobiographical play about her extremely troubled life properly belongs in a therapist's office.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDanai Gurira's tough-minded play deals with a young South African woman who has embraced Catholicism.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Kevin Spacey gives an indelible portrait of Shakespeare's tyrannical monarch at BAM.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The Roundabout Theatre's production of Athol Fugard's important drama about an elderly artist suffers from a tedious first act.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, January 15, 2012
This show details the work of three pioneering female anthropologists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, January 13, 2012
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis lead a superb cast in Diane Paulus' effective musicalized version of the beloved opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMMonday, January 9, 2012
Victor Kaufold's dysfunctional family drama, set in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood, is well performed.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, January 1, 2012
The Metropolitan Opera's world premiere, which combines Shakespearean characters and Baroque arias, lives up to its title.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, December 29, 2011
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' lively production plays an all-too-brief run at Symphony Space.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMThursday, December 15, 2011
This delightful musical adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's classic story receives a first-rate revival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, December 11, 2011
Harry Connick Jr. and Jessie Mueller shine in this improved revisal of the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Gerard Mannix Flynn's powerfully acted, darkly poetic monologue details the abuse of Irish schoolchildren.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Brian Dennehy and John Hurt offer different interpretations of Samuel Beckett's legendary solo piece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSunday, December 4, 2011
Jim Brochu gives an ebullient portrayal of Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman and Hart's immaculately structured comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDes McAnuff's updated production of Goethe's opera is very well-sung but suffers from too many unhelpful directorial notions.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
This new Broadway musical about the legendary 1930s bank robbers rarely rises above mediocrity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's dance-theater piece takes a questionable view of life among the Shakers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, November 21, 2011
The two Broadway stars haven't fully lost their mannerisms in this often exciting show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 20, 2011
The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's history play is extremely well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross give splendidly sleek performances in this near-perfect production of Noel Coward's classic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
George Orwell's early novel gets an earnest story-theater adaptation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam's opera, centering on a Mormon community in the wake of a scandal, receives a moodily stunning production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Sam Waterston gives a disappointing performance in the title role of James Macdonald's misguided production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Mary Testa proves her greatness in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about Mary Edson Taylor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Wendy Beckett's well-acted drama concerns an adolescent girl torn between her birth mother and adoptive mother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Joel Rooks stars in this welcome revival of Rupert Holmes' smoothly entertaining play about the lives of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 28, 2011
Jay Hunter Morris distinguishes himself in the title role of Richard Wagner's third installment of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMThursday, October 27, 2011
A.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Alan Lester Brooks' thoughtful drama about the Holocaust is worth taking seriously.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
