THE RIGHT GIRL IN THE WRONG VENUE Created by Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker, The Girl I Left Behind Me " which is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival " is a tribute to British and Amer…
WHITE-COLLAR BULLYING Mike Bartlett's play Bull begins with a team of three white-collar salespeople, Tony (Adam James), Isobel (Eleanor Matsuura) and Thomas (Sam Throughton) awaiting the ar…
ALMOST MAGIC Although the magic tricks in Bullet Catch are not so much ends in themselves as they are tools used to help explore the show's themes, the effectiveness of the play " named a…
SEEING ISN'T FEELING Blythe Duff and Andrew Scott-Ramsay deliver rich, convincing performances in David Harrower's worthwhile if not completely satisfying play Good with People. Part of the …
A SHOWCASE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS When watching Artistic New Directions' presentation of An Eclectic Evening of Shorts: Boxers and Briefs VI, a collection of six ten-minute plays, plus three s…
SUGAR RUSH An adorable piece of clever and very funny fluff, Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike takes spoonfuls of ingredients from Chekhov's plays and mixes them into …
THE BEAUTY OF MAKESHIFT THEATER Even with all its flaws Bedlam's revival of George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. Unde…
A LESSON IN CHARACTERIZATION Carol Kane's magnetic performance turns Craig Lucas's dramatically thin comic thriller The Lying Lesson into compelling entertainment. Ms. Kane plays Bette Davis…
A DULL DESCENT INTO HELL The charisma and passion Ethan Hawk brings to the title role, Vincent D'Onofrio's powerful stage presence, a gnarly set by Derek McLane, lovely songs by Latham and S…
FUNNY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH Hamish Linklater's very funny, sharp and tender new play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on a…
THE ANTICHRIST IN A COLLEGE DORM The Amoralists' staging of Lyle Kessler's new play Collision, directed by David Fofi, is an admirable but flawed effort to explore the motivations of a young…
AS HARMLESS AS A PICNIC Roundabout Theater Company's revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic is the perfect show to take your mom to. I know because I did. An excellent …
LAURIE METCALF BELONGS IN THE OTHER PLACE In The Other Place, Sharr White's riveting and affective play, Laurie Metcalf delivers a poignant and masterfully crafted performance as Juliana, a …
CHEKHOV REINVENTED, SORT OF The whimsical premise behind Kristen Kosmas' brilliantly conceived and deftly executed creation There There is this: Christopher Walken, while touring Russia in a…
I THINK I HEARD BELLINI TURNING IN HIS GRAVE Imagine yourself sitting tied to a chair in a stuffy, dark room with a very dull senile old man who talks on and on and on and on and on and on a…
HALF & HALF Australian Made Entertainment's new production of Andrew Bovell's well-crafted relationship thriller Speaking in Tongues really gets going in the second act. The play, direct…
DARK AND DELIGHTFUL A liberatingly surreal and exquisitely poetic masterwork, Fernando Arrabal's Garden of Delights is a sinister fairytale that concerns itself with the inner struggles of L…
AFLOAT ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS Many positive things can and should be said about Sheila Callaghan's Port Out, Starboard Home, a play about a three-day cruise at the end of which the passengers p…
NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT I LIKE IT Staged in the basement of The Chocolate Factory, with exposed pipes, beams and support columns, the drawbacks of Sibyl Kempson's wonderfully inventive new s…
A BAD DAY FOR A GREAT PLAY It's a problem when the most effective elements of a dramatic show are the sound and visual effects, but such is the case with Cherry Lane Theater's production of …
WELL INTENTIONED, ILL-CONCEIVED Whispers of "pretentious" could be heard in the audience of Paul David Young's new play In the Summer Pavilion, which doesn't seem like a fair assessment. Cal…
PUT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION Anticipating having to review Owen Dunne's new play Positions, the feeling I had while watching it " knowing the production to have travelled 600 miles to…
AN AMUSING TRIFLE A.R. Gurney's entertaining, dynamic but trivial new play Heresy reinvents the story of Jesus Christ (in the play he's called Chris), changing the setting from 33 A.D. Jerus…
HOW LOVE DIES: TWO VERSIONS Brian Friel's excellent 1968 play Lovers is actually two separate plays with similar themes and settings. Both take place in a small town in Ireland in the mid 19…
NOTHING WILD, EXCEPT… Tess Frazer gives a stellar performance as Willie in Tennessee Williams' This Property is Condemned, a play about an orphaned girl living alone in her family's di…