If you enjoyed Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," you'll feel right at home at the New Globe Theatre's dramatizations of these two …
Vortex Theater Company rounds out its ambitious 2007 season with director Kris Thor and composer Joel Bravo's intense and satisfying new version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Barbara Sutton Masry has a good idea for a play here and an apt title. Unfortunately, her leading character - like those around her - is relentlessly unsympathetic.
Pat and predictable from the get-go, "Girl's Room" nevertheless gives two bona fide Broadway divas, Carol Lawrence and Donna McKechnie, a chance to demonstrate what pros they are.
Director David Epstein has mounted a credible production of John Guare's thought-provoking script, even if the playwright's decision to throw us immediately into the deep end of his characte…
André De Shields locks the audience in his mesmeric gaze and doesn't let go for the 90-minute breakneck revue of songs that follows.
Very little in Charles Mee's "Queens Boulevard (The Musical)" suggests depicting the ethnic soup of central Queens with total accuracy. Clarity in Mee's plays is predicated on directorial vi…
After an 18-year absence following his Broadway debut, Aaron Sorkin returns to the Great White Way with his new play "The Farnsworth Invention" - a triumphant re-entrance worthy of a grand s…
The uneven style and strange energy of director Mark Lamos' production of "Cymbeline" befit Shakespeare's play: Lamos aims to ignite and extinguish different fires, only some of which are wo…
Oh the pretentiousness. Despite strong performances from Marisa Tomei and Brian Hutchison and Jim Simpson's sturdy direction, these five sketches are daubs of paint that don't add up to a co…
You may never again get a chance to see "Lulu" done so sharply that it etches itself into you like a nail on a mirror. Go!
Everything Callaway does in this well-nigh-perfect show is fresh, vital, confident, and carefully thought out. Perhaps too carefully.
There's so much that's wonderful about this imaginative show. But the presentation is another matter.
The Pearl Theatre Company is providing an early Christmas present of the past: George Farquhar's rollicking -- and rarely seen " 1699 Restoration romp.
This fantasy drama of a real-life German-Jewish critic's attempts to escape the Nazis is a muddled evening.
David Morse returns to the stage in 'The Seafarer.'
This petite, amusing, jazz-pop-rock singer is the most promising newcomer in five years.
A memoir of nuclear fallout proves to be overly sentimental and unfocused.
This compendium of historical material has its heart in the right place, but its head in in a book.
Pimps, prostitutues, and poets collide in an uncomfortable clash between naturalism and absurdism.
A charming and game group of actors rescue a coming-of-age story from cliche.
Five early one-acts by Eugene O'Neill receive a smooth production from Metropolitan Playhouse.
The Hypocrites won raves in their hometown of Chicago for this glum allegory, but the stylized, awkward dialogue keeps audiences at a distance.