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Speaking in Varied Tongues, to Audience (and to a Cow) By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Gesher Theater's adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1962 novel unfolds with the vivid misery of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
A Vintage Show Business Story With Songs and Yiddish Accent By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
While this biographical salute to Molly Picon (1898-1992) has its nostalgic pleasures, it falls short of a satisfying treat.
Sparks Are Flying With Beatrice and Benedick in Central Park By NEIL GENZLINGER
The main event at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is the wonderful war between Kristen Johnston and Jimmy Smits, who vie for the title of crowd favorite.
A Chaplinesque Character, Tripped Up by a Delusion By NEIL GENZLINGER
This play about sanity and insanity starring Mikhail Baryshnikov cannot quite escape its gimmickry to achieve true poignancy, though it comes close.
A Tulip Craze, Dutch Ghosts and Geneticists, All in a Tangle By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
Two genetic engineers are themselves engineered in a play "loosely based" on an 1850 Alexandre Dumas novel about a 17th-century Dutch financial bubble swelled by a tulip craze.
First Course of a Grand Russian Banquet By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Russian director Piotr Fomenko and his troupe, Theater-Atelier, returned to the Lincoln Center Festival on Tuesday with a stage adaptation of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
Horrors Seen and Imagined Imperil the Body and Soul By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
These two one-hour plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, joined by one character appearing in both, are classy spine tinglers in the grand tradition.
Assorted Women, Most of Them Envious of Men By ANITA GATES
One thing is clear from Linda Marlowe's one-woman show. Steven Berkoff, the actor-playwright-director whose works Ms. Marlowe performs, has a fascination with bodily fluids.
Five Inquiring Youngsters, Singing About Writing to God By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
This musical adapted from the perennially popular book has a sweet, warm heart, but it falls short of answering a theatergoer's prayer.
A Holocaust Survivor With an Ambiguous Past By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
Moral judgment becomes such a dangerous game in "The Action Against Sol Schumann" by Jeffrey Sweet that the play is a profoundly unsettling experience.
Using Congo and Belgians as a Metaphor For Iraq War By ANITA GATES
After its visual artistry, the most striking thing about Ping Chong's multidisciplinary work at La Mama is its resonance here and now.
Only a Gifted Young Briton Gets This Mad at Britain By BEN BRANTLEY
Gregory Burke's harshly predetermined drama about four rudderless teenagers surely deserves an award for most efficient use of a title.
Playing Comedy Straight (As Far as It's Possible) By BEN BRANTLEY
Portraying the plus-sized Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad, Michael McKean is more creditable than credible.
When a Woman's Self-Esteem Requires Some Silicone By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The potentially heavy subjects of body image and adulthood at Repertorio Español are made light, fascinating and funny by the play's director and cast.
A Midlife Crisis That Gets Very Messy By ANITA GATES
A married businessman undergoes a terrifying journey of realization in David Folwell's savvy absurdist comedy at the Rattlestick Theater.
Bringing Together Two Great Minds by NEIL GENZLINGER
This distillation of the letters exchanged by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams has compelling ideas, but it isn't very compelling as theater.
Women Acting Their Age, and Everybody Else's By BEN BRANTLEY
Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney revive some of the skits that made them comedy cult stars in an affectionate, relaxed show at Second Stage Theater.
A Man, a Woman and a Baby, Locked in a Northern Nightmare By ANITA GATES
It's tempting to label Jon Fosse's stark drama, with its dual postpartum depression, marital alienation and extreme reactions, quintessentially Scandinavian.
A Twisted King Twisted Again, With Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The Judith Shakespeare Company's loud, flashy and hugely energetic production of "Richard III" features female actors in all the leading roles.
Now It Still Rains in Spain, but the Peninsula's Smaller By NEIL GENZLINGER
The radiant "My Fair Lady" in Princeton, N.J., through June 27 isn't the musical you remember, and yet at the same time it is.
The Sweaty Impulse to Soar Above Death by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Not for the faint of heart, this drama playing at P.S. 122 is based on transcripts of the flight recorders of six doomed aircraft.
