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As the first tenant of the Cherry Pit, the new Cherry Lane company space in the West Village, this is a breath of fresh air in these stale economic times.
All too often plays derived from film can be disappointing, pale imitations but this staging is exceptionally good
The Theatre for a New Audience takes a middle ground in terms of modernizing and streamlining this ever fascinating tale of murder, treachery and madness
Fun packed and with spectacular visuals.
Godlight theater tackles another dystopian work with mixed results
It's impossible to resist laughing at the play's not so veiled hostilities as at a second helping of the apple and pear Clafouti -- the French confection which, like everything else about th…
Fuller's play offers no solutions to the endless cycle of problems that destroy young lives, but it certainly provides a powerfully revealing glimpse into a part of American life most would …
The many real paintings on display bring to mind Jack O'Brien's brilliantly overlap of a Manet painting with a scene in Coast of Utopia. But Mark Jacobs is no Tom Stoppard and this is at bes…
There's a definite surreal quality that makes it impossible to take this show lightly despite its comic elements and tremendously well exploited irony
A tender dramatization of playwright and novelist Simon Gray's autobiographical works
You don't have to be a fan of the Rambo movies or of Sylvester Stallone to enjoy this one-man homage
Environmental problems turn familial tensions into a surreal nightmare
You don't have to be a fan of the Rambo movies or of Sylvester Stallone to enjoy this one-man homage.
If Jews have survived for five thousand years, is it too much to ask that the Folksbiene continue the traditions of Yiddish theater for many years to come?
Whatever 21st century resonances have been impressed or augmented, West Side Story remains a terrific and exciting show.
Jolting reminder that cycles of dependency are self-defeating.
A disappointing two-hander about a reclusive musician, and the far more ambitious womanwho coaxes him out of his room for a brief trip to the top of punk rock stardom
Tracey Scott Wilson doesn't just lean on actual events but knows how to transform them into a ripping good behind the headlines story with all-around dramatic flair
With New Yorkers being blitzed with bad news about the economy, their job security and the difficulties of ending two unpopular wars, the producers of the latest revival of this wartime-prom…
A powerful and evocative revival of Friel's masterpiece
In a U.S. premiere, Anna Krämer brings an energized fascination to her portrayal of a Jewish singer caught between the perils of Nazi-occupied Vienna and the realities she faced after the w…
Everything exhilaratingly and extravagantly comes up roses in director Rebecca Taichman's production
Lorenzo Pisoni weaves a web that captures our imagination, our longing and our joy in life. . .
A Kafkaesque (and, one imagines, Guantanamo-esque) drama
