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Sending Up the Downtown Life By ADA CALHOUN
In an hourlong show last week, Mike Albo reinforced his status as the ultimate satirist of the downtown New York social landscape.
It's Love That Maketh Thy World Go Round By WILBORN HAMPTON
If Susannah York's show is not quite a master class in the poet's gallery of women, it is as good an introductory course as any around.
The Bat Awakens, Stretches, Yawns By BEN BRANTLEY
"Dracula, The Musical" isn't simply bad, which is an esthetic state of being that is kind of fun if you're in the right mood. It is bad and boring.
Looking for Mr. Strindberg in Some Very Strange Places By ANITA GATES
Anna Rosa Sigurdardottir's one-woman show is about a young would-be playwright haunted by August Strindberg's ghost.
A Chilling Account of a Child Never Known By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews from the New York International Fringe Festival, which runs through Aug. 29 and features productions by more than 200 theatrical companies.
Conflicting Impulses of Chekov's Last Play By BEN BRANTLEY
Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" has been given a thoroughly disarming production at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where it runs through Aug. 22.
Tortured by Slaps, Punches and (Gasp!) Engelbert By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The awkward, tentative production of Irvine Welsh's play as seen at Collective: Unconscious is drained of adrenaline and ultimately tilts toward sentimentality.
Puh-lease, Mrs. Robinson, He's Just a Freshman By NEIL GENZLINGER
Brooke Berman's new play at Second Stage Theater is a somewhat skin-deep domestic fable buoyed by witty exchanges and a slick cast.
Mickey Rooney, Recapping a Long Career By ANITA GATES
In this retrospective musical about his own life, Mickey Rooney, who's almost 84, still has his version of star power.
Unkind Words for Bush, Soft Spot for Nancy Reagan By ANITA GATES
It's always dangerous to equate mere outspokenness with humor, but Brian Dykstra's exhilarating one-man show does more than call names.
Resolutions by Exchanges of (Ooof! Kapow!) Ideas By NEIL GENZLINGER
Israel Horovitz goes for thrash and bash in his unfulfilling plays about unemployment at the 78th Street Theater Lab.
A Palestinian Medea, Wilder and Bloodier Than Euripides Imagined By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
People seeing "Medea in Jerusalem" by the playwright Roger Kirby will learn soon enough what Jason realized eons ago: Medea cannot be domesticated.
Family Affair, Notorious and Historic By BEN BRANTLEY
Todd Cerveris's self-consciously arty play about a celebrated 19th-century family of actors is at its most persuasive as a precise anatomy of an actor's art and life.
The Suffocating Dust in a Household's Cozy Clutter By BEN BRANTLEY
Horton Foote's latest study in mortal loneliness occasionally tips into overstated melodrama, but his uniquely harsh sentimentality is wonderfully evoked by the cast.
A Simple Life Made Simpler By NEIL GENZLINGER
What more needs to be said about Paris Hilton, the human party-girl parody? Actually, nothing, which drains most of the glee from this moderately randy monologue.
Pint-Size Fighter Hangs Tough in World of Glass By BEN BRANTLEY
The courageous team at the Kennedy Center, led by director Gregory Mosher and actress Sally Field, have successfully restored this myth-inflated drama to human scale.
Just Sittin' on the Dock of Some Old Pop Favorites By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The musical comedy at the Gramercy Theater is generous to a fault, a double dip into nostalgia.
A Cast That's One Performer but 12 Very Different People By ANITA GATES
Pity the Thebans, Your Friends and Neighbors By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The National Asian American Theater Company performs a translation of Sophocles's play that makes Creon the central tragic figure.
Overambitious Army Sergeants in the Salad Days of the Raj By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Rudyard Kipling's 1888 tale about two scheming former British Army sergeants in India brims with timely resonance at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.
Adventures of a First Grader With Music as Sassy as She By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
For most children school's out; but class is happily, tunefully in session at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
J. M. Barrie Fairy Tales for Adults in a Time of War By NEIL GENZLINGER
Today these two one-act plays by J. M. Barrie, presented under the title "Echoes of the War" at the Mint Theater, seem like lovely but slight character studies.
But Beneath All That Pseudosophisticated Banter Lurks a Secret By NEIL GENZLINGER
With its literary citations and pop-culture references, Steven Dietz's play is bent more on flattering the audience than on telling it something it doesn't already know.
Sifting Through the Splinters of a Fragmented World By BEN BRANTLEY
This mind-scrambling collage of a play was adapted by the magical British director Simon McBurney from short stories by Haruki Murakami.
Gods, Greeks and Ancient Shtick By BEN BRANTLEY
Despite a high concentration of blue-ribbon talent, what should have been a zesty, airy soufflé is a soggy, lumpy batter that never shows the slightest signs of rising.
