Back to a 'Reckless' time BY BLAKE GREEN

Craig Lucas sets out to explore as he brings his early dark comedy to Broadway

Weak smiles over (lack of) substance BY SAM THIELMAN

"Spatter Pattern."

Those who teach, can - and do BY BLAKE GREEN

Revered voice coach takes a starring role Off-Broadway

Three women revolve around a man in 'Tryptich' BY GORDON COX

From 411 BC, a comedy still stands tall BY GORDON COX

A large, vine-covered sculpture of a phallus. Frequent use of coarse sexual euphemisms. Men driven to distraction, in a constant, visible, state of arousal. It could be the latest crude teen…

HIS KINGDOM FOR THIS PART BY GORDON COX

Gaining a reputation as a serious actor, Peter Dinklage tackles the role of the 'deform'd' king in Shakespeare's 'Richard III'

Through the onstage din, feeling the hate BY GORDON COX

Othello's jealousy, in this production by the British troupe Cheek by Jowl, does not enhance his strength.

Zany, perky pals tussle with cancer BY LINDA WINER

Where "Frozen" was tough and lean, the new piece is mawkish and fuzzy.

Director Julie Taymor's use of pupperty, masks, color and translucent touches marks the new Met production of 'Magic Flute' BY MARION LIGNANA ROSENBERG

Painting yet another 'Picture' of Marilyn BY LINDA WINER

"Finishing the Picture" is far more likable than Miller's other Marilyn play, "After the Fall," which recently finished a disappointing revival at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

A case of overnight soul BY BLAKE GREEN

New Yorker cartoonist turns his upper-crust roots upside down in a new play

Building the 'female force' BY TINA SUSMAN

'Lysistrata's spin on the path to peace comes to City Center.

'Death' by steamroller BY GORDON COX

"Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" will give you a headache, and not just because the sound system lends every voice a harsh, overamplified edge.

Gravity and levity that's off the wall BY GORDON COX

There are just four performers in "Plan B," but there are five major characters. The fifth is a wall, and it shows a surprisingly varied personality.

Playing with reality BY GORDON COX

Our tour guide through "Nobody's Lunch" is an interstellar Entity who speaks in a singsong Indian accent about the Annanuki, a race of energy-beings that harvests human fear.

Power plays for Rumsfeld and Ashcroft by BLAKE GREEN

Anyone who hasn't had enough of Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft in the media can head straight Off-Broadway for a fix.

When red lights dim, not much shines BY LINDA WINER

The problems are exaggerated by the wrong-headed and miscast production, a rare misstep by David Esbjornson, whose direction ignores the script's significant demand that "all the women are v…

We hear you, people, but we don't understand BY GORDON COX

Ibsen's 'Hedda,' undergoing renovation BY LINDA WINER

Dubya and Martha: It's just wrong by GORDON COX

However you slice it, it's a red 'Rose' BY LINDA WINER

Good at being a bad boy BY GORDON COX

Radical director Ivo van Hove brings iconoclastic passion to 'Hedda Gabler'

A half-century and still running in Paris by BLAKE GREEN

Eugene Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," first performed in 1950, has been running for more than half a century in the same tiny Parisian theater where Tina Howe first saw it.

Serving as lonesco's acolyte BY BLAKE GREEN

Playwright Tina Howe has translated two plays by the French absurdist for New York - her dream of a lifetime

Going with the flow of a neo-puppet show BY MARION LIGNANA ROSENBERG