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Wallace Shawn's The Fever generates little heat. For starters, it's more of a lecture than a play.
A certain irrepressible spirit - and her name is not Elvira - kicks up her heels...
The fury is missing from this production of Mary Stuart. It's all sound and actors letting you know they're "acting."
What is this musical about? The title says it all. And the show is powerful enough to elicit gasps from the audience.
It's a nasty bit of history that Nicholas de Jongh tells us about in Plague Over England. A near casualty: Sir John Gielgud.
Queenly performances by Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter cannot hide the rather flat production of this London transplant.
Lorenzo Pisoni puts himself in harms way in an enjoyable one-man show that's just the right length-for a change.
Happiness the musical is less a musical than a musical revue. But there are bits and pieces that entertain and amuse, if not enlighten and inform.
Irena's Vow is a marvelous tale, but lacks the nuance to make it the inspiring ideal it should be.
Christopher Durang is a risk-taker. And with his latest play Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, the risk has paid off. He's come up with a biting, bracing absurdist comedy o…
The musical may have moved indoors, but Hair has stayed as fresh as when it was playing in Central Park last summer.
Bartlett Sher has directed a Joe Turner that is absorbing in fits and starts. But it fails to build to the tumultuous finish that is surely demanded.
In Death and the King&39s Horseman , Wole Soylinka has once again gotten across his message about the tragic consequences of imperial interference.
The B movie gets a hilarious, laugh-a-minute musical makeover.
Trevor Nunn's revival of A Little Night Music will leave audiences smiling in the summer night and all other times too.
LaBute's latest is a step up from his totally one-sided battle of the sexes. Face it, women have feelings, duh?
Rock of Ages isn't exactly rocket science, but it's extraordinarily entertaining and extremely catchy
This pedestrian production of Macbeth packs buckets o' blood but few genuine frissons
Early Stephen Sondheim gets a fair shake of it in the charming Saturday Night.
This is lesser Athol Fugard -only those obsessed with seeing all of the South African master's work will feel obliged to see it.
This show is definitely a crowd pleaser. Goodbye to the Palace for another decade or so.
Jane Fonda is alive and well and back on Broadway. The play's pretty interesting, too.
Four excellent actors going nowhere in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage
City Center Encores! announces its 2009-2010 season: Girl Crazy, Fanny and Anyone Can Whistle
