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"The Overwhelming," which the Roundabout Theatre Company opened Off-Broadway last night at the Laura Pels Theatre, tackles an important subject. It is not, alas, an important play.
Oh, dear. Claire Danes is a willowy, attractive, intelligent young actress, who, beginning with her TV breakthrough as the teen heroine of "My So-Called Life," has made self-challenging care…
The stud is a dud. And that's only the first of a dozen problems with CBS' admirably ambitious but jaw-droppingly wrongheaded new musical/murder mystery/family drama "Viva Laughlin."
Sarah Treem, a bright young playwright still finding her voice, has written an uneven but amiable and almost daring comedy about a young composer still finding her voice. If this sounds a bi…
If you can't snag top-tier tickets for the starry revival of Shaw's "Pygmalion" that opens Thursday on Broadway, you could do worse than wander down 42nd Street to the Lion Theatre and catch…
But for all the spring in its step, the play can't help but show its age.
Everyone may be beautiful, as "The Sensuous Woman" admirably posits, but not everyone has the indefinable stage presence that Cho brings to her jiggles as much as to her jokes.
Pitch-dark and melancholic in its look, but antic - even silly - in its action, "The Wolves in the Walls" plays a bit as if Samuel Beckett had penned an episode of "The Muppet Show."
"Mauritius," named after the island in the Indian Ocean where these 19th century stamps were made, is neither original nor surprising. It is, however, extremely enjoyable.
Gerard Alessandrini, the wicked smarty behind 25 years of "Forbidden Broadway" revues, has the perfect anniversary present for theatergoers. The gift is that he hasn't mellowed a bit.
Michael Wilson luxuriates in his cast's professionalism, but puts a perilous amount of trust in his audience's patience for repetitive bickering and family-tree exposition.
'The Little Mermaid' takes the plunge along with many other exciting new shows
There's so little opera and so much pop and R&B in this odd, slickly produced show - directed and choreographed by Marion J. Caffey - that the association with the vaunted "Three Tenors" bra…
If Kate Fodor is not a name you recognize, "100 Saints You Should Know" is a play you should know. The drama, which burst onstage last night at Playwrights Horizons, is only Fodor's second p…
There is life after the Troubles, and drama, too, but it will take a better play than "Rock Doves" to do it justice.
At its best, this is a cathartic, full-service entertainment for urban progressives who've felt adrift and embittered in the post-9/11 era.
