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Guess Who's Coming to Dim Sum By ANITA GATES
Bad Table Manners, but Fancy Names to Quote By JASON ZINOMAN
If you learn one thing about the members of this theater troupe from their deliriously entertaining show, it is never invite them to dinner.
The Art of Pursuing Jewish Girls, for Dummies By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
In a word, oy. Actually, even that small but spectacularly useful Yiddish word won't suffice to register the proper dismay at the feeble-witted comedy "Jewtopia."
Surviving the Khmer Rouge By ANITA GATES
Mia Katigbak gives a restrained performance of dignity, pain and a dash of bitter humor in this beautifully done one-act drama about the place where horror and grief meet.
An Asylum of Inflated Personalities By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
"Newsical" is a fast, funny and irreverent topic musical revue that zestfully serves up its skewered famous and foolish.
A Bawdy Lampoon Saving the First Lady From Despair By ANITA GATES
The Vital Theater Company's political play has an interesting premise but the script and the execution lack sophistication.
A Classic Played in the Twitch of an Eye By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The Pearl Theater Company's production of Molière's comedy, aside from the performance of Robert Hock, lacks the relentless goofiness that the play is meant to showcase.
Star-Crossed Lovers, in Bondage By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The Jean Cocteau Repertory's abridged, frenzied production of Shakespeare's play makes a strong case for "Romeo and Juliet" as slapstick comedy.
A Tip: Lend That Cup of Sugar, Then Shut the Door By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Neal Bell's moody new murder-mystery at Playwrights Horizons is ambitious and a little conflicted.
Brooke Shields as a Naif Who Can't Get a Date By BEN BRANTLEY
Ms. Shields is game, gawky and supremely likable as Ruth Sherwood, the man-scaring writer from Ohio, in "Wonderful Town" at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.
Exposing the Military Mind-Set By NEIL GENZLINGER
This engrossing, inventive dissection of the American military mind is being performed with stark precision by the Riot Group.
Two Tales of Dybbuks as an Allegory for Poland and Judaism By NEIL GENZLINGER
"The Dybbuk," an intense, somewhat exhausting work, explores a disquieting piece of Jewish folklore with striking stage pictures and an even more striking soundscape.
She's All Smiles (Until She's Not) By BEN BRANTLEY
A perkily told sad story of a runaway waif-woman in the wide, wild world, "Reckless" remains a beguilingly sneaky crash course in the loss of innocence.
Three Women After One Man By JASON ZINOMAN
The Irish Repertory Theater's production of Edna O'Brien's emotionally bruising drama stumbles every time a very awkward pause slows matters down.
A Solitary Woman, Embodying All of Iraq By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Heather Raffo's impassioned theatrical documentary gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women.
An Accomplished Life, Now Confronting Death By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The indignities of aging assume aspects both touching and comic in this slight and sentimental new play by Joanna McClelland Glass.
In the Bushland Trenches, but Reaching for the Stars By CAMILLE SWEENEY
In the zany "Eat the Taste," John Ashcroft sets his sights on the Great White Way. In "Barbara Bush Slept Here," H. Patrick Kenilworth, a Texas Democrat, quits politics in disgust.
When Naturalism Isn't Natural, Subvert the Realism By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Richard Maxwell trains his unsentimental eye on the potentially misty story of two loners struggling and failing to connect.
A Big Throne to Fill, and the Man to Fill It By BEN BRANTLEY
Ascending the throne has never been more of a struggle for Shakespeare's most Machiavellian monarch than it is in this production at the Public Theater.
Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Painted in Words By BEN BRANTLEY
Arthur Miller's disguised take on Marilyn Monroe at the Goodman Theater is not clouded by prurience, but it does not provide much in the way of illumination either.
Well, They Were White Last Night By BEN BRANTLEY
In William Hamilton's play, a rich white society couple wake up in their fancy Upper East Side apartment to discover that overnight . . . they've turned black!
Antiwar Humor, Really Old School By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The National Theater of Greece's new production of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" is a joyous illustration of the wisdom of doing nothing to make an old comedy new again.
On Death's Threshold and Finding Faith in Friends By BEN BRANTLEY
Bryony Lavery's new play tells the tale of a terminally ill lighting designer and her terminally madcap friends.
Warriors and Women, Trapped on the Iago Carousel By BEN BRANTLEY
No one's life is his own in Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's dynamic staging of "Othello" at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
They're Putting It Together, Accentuating the Positive By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The wonderful world of Stephen Sondheim glows brightly in "Opening Doors," a new revue of favorites and rarities from the songbook of the Broadway composer and lyricist.
