Stage Left by Charles McNulty
Tony Awards look to Off-Broadway for excellence.
Tony Awards look to Off-Broadway for excellence.
Tasting Memories
Chinese Friends
In a time of narrowing vision, Margulies's excellent old play makes a welcome Sight by Michael Feingold
Sight Unseen
Shinn explores American loneliness and longing pre-9-11 by Charles McNulty
Where Do We Live
Boy
The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
With anger, compassion, and statistics, Kia Corthron writes the wrongs of the homeless by Michael Feingold
Light Raise the Roof
I hear crinoline-wearing kook Cyndi Lauper will most likely be the next Audrey in Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors, casting that's so perfect it's amazing it took so long for the "True Colors" gal to be up there singing "Somewhere That's Green."
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In the midst of global dimming, the theater could offer a few bright spots by Michael Feingold
Reflections on the season
A fearless new generation of Off-Broadway playwrights establishes downtown beachheads
Mac Wellman on the making a truly creative theater community
Commemorating P.S. 122's 25-year history of stretching the bounds of contemporary performance
Alexis Soloski listens in to an oral history of P.S. 122
John Ortiz sizzles in LAByrinth's Iraq-war-era Woyzeck by David Ng
Guinea Pig Solo
American aliens (at home and abroad) drive two new plays by Alexis Soloski
The Internationalist; The Distance From Here
Bye Bye Birdie
One Broadway show tries frenzy, another tries cool. Guess which one is more honest? by Michael Feingold
Prymate; Frozen
Haunted by the past, Moran takes us into his confidence by Charles McNulty
The Tricky Part, by Martin Moran
Jumpers
Sondheim and Weidman hail the chief-killers; Larry Kramer uses rant to fight the plague by Michael Feingold
Assassins; The Normal Heart
How AIDS plays have changed since Larry Kramer raged
Adam Rapp's druggie two-hander spares no oozing detail by Charles McNulty
Blackbird, by Adam Rapp
Bill Irwin partly outfoxes himself; Finian's Rainbow is a crock where gold still glitters