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

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

Full of references to pop culture (he's surprised that Mac doesn't recognize the name Nia Peebles), Gerry goes on to ramble

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

First Nighter: Lot Vekemans's Harsh, Heart-Breaking "Poison," Brooks Reeves's Less Heart-Lifting "The City That Cried Wolf" by David Finkle

A question Vekemans plants in the collective audience mind is whether reconciliation of any kind can develop between people

First Nighter: Lot Vekemans's Harsh, Heart-Breaking "Poison," Brooks Reeves's Less Heart-Lifting "The City That Cried Wolf" by David Finkle

As He and She reluctantly relive their shared past, she reiterates that she grieves every day for her child and grows increasingly

First Nighter: Lot Vekemans's Harsh, Heart-Breaking "Poison," Brooks Reeves's Less Heart-Lifting "The City That Cried Wolf" by David Finkle

Easy Listener: Barbara Carroll, Jay Leonhart, Barb Jungr, John McDaniel, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Kanan, Cheyenne Jackson Make Great Music on New by David Finkle

When it comes to gift giving, is there anything better than music? Not much. So for anyone looking around for music to delight

Easy Listener: Barbara Carroll, Jay Leonhart, Barb Jungr, John McDaniel, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Kanan, Cheyenne Jackson Make Great Music on New by David Finkle

When it comes to gift giving, is there anything better than music? Not much. So for anyone looking around for music to delight

Easy Listener: Barbara Carroll, Jay Leonhart, Barb Jungr, John McDaniel, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Kanan, Cheyenne Jackson Make Great Music on New by David Finkle