He Sings, He Dances, He Parts the Red Sea By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
"The Ten Commandments," a big, fat biblical boondoggle starring Val Kilmer, all but submerges the story of Moses in an oily sea of pleasant but unremarkable pop music.
A Rich Vision of Life Filled With Love and Housework By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
"The Clean House," a fresh, funny new play by a talented young playwright, Sarah Ruhl, breathes a little life into the term "romantic comedy."
Before the Fall Theater Rush, a Festival Full of Song By NEIL GENZLINGER
The New York Musical Theater Festival offers an ambitious three weeks of musicals at theaters in Midtown and other parts of the city.
The Metaphysics of Being a Hipster By JASON ZINOMAN
In his latest dark drama, playwright Adam Rapp aims for something much more grand than just another mundane tale of arrested development and spilled bodily fluids.
Exposing the Military Mind-Set By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Riot Group's engrossing, inventive dissection of the American military mind is being performed with stark precision at the 59E59 Theaters.
Darwin Gets a Cheerleader: A Stripper on the School Board By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Despite its strikingly fresh premise, this "comedy with songs" rambles desperately, at times downright bizarrely, for more than two hours.
Troubled Souls Gather in the Local Pub By ANITA GATES
He's From the White House, She's From a Clean House By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Karen Finley freely vents her ire in her new show, which is inspired by the notion that President Bush and Martha Stewart have long been conducting a secret affair.
A Hedda for Self-Absorbed Modern Times By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The arrival of Ivo van Hove's strange and strangely enthralling new production of Henrik Ibsen's drama instantly slips the fall theater season into a higher gear.
An Explorer Both Musical and Jealous By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The Marx brothers being currently unavailable, it has fallen to a cast of lesser lights to try to leach lunacy from this slight, silly trifle about the Antarctic explorer.
A Shakespearean Blood Bath of Cabbages and Kings By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A freshly sharpened cleaver is the weapon of choice in Edward Hall's flashy, eminently accessible production of all three parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI."
THEATER REVIEW | 'THE BALD SOPRANO AND THE LESSON'
Both of Eugène Ionesco's comedies as seen at the Atlantic Theater Company can be seen by the politically minded as a grim cautionary tale for today.
Lloyd Webber's Emoting Victorians By BEN BRANTLEY
The much-anticipated new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber, which opened on Wednesday at the Palace Theater in London, is liveliest at its hokiest.
Puppets on the Dark Side, Hooded, Armed and Mournful By ANITA GATES
There are puppets and then there are the puppets Roman Paska's cynical but quietly entrancing and sometimes inexplicably touching one-act multimedia show at the Kitchen.
Sing, Hoof and Follow the Fleet: Kid, You're Coming Back a Star By NEIL GENZLINGER
Quite a mix of theatrical and real-life drama is folded into Jean Cocteau Repertory's "Dames at Sea." But someone forgot to bring the electricity.
A giggle of clowns led by the Russian master Slava Polunin is stirring up laughter and enjoyment at the Union Square Theater in "Slava's Snowshow."
Good Grief, C. B., You Blockhead, Is It Really Bye-Bye to the Beagle? By ADA CALHOUN
After winning an excellence award at the New York International Fringe Festival, Bert V. Royal's parody of the Peanuts gang has made a rapid transfer to the SoHo Playhouse.
Upfront Political Artist Taps Inner Show Queen By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Tim Miller, in his new solo show at P.S. 122, shows that a highly developed social conscience does not necessarily preclude a deep immersion in the cheery aesthetics of the American musical.
Current-Event Cartoons as the Stuff of Theater By BEN BRANTLEY
David Hare's new play about the making of the war in Iraq is a valiant, high-reaching history lesson.
With Jaundiced Eyes and Barbed Tongues By JASON ZINOMAN
"Homeland Insecurity," a pleasurable solo show, and a musical satire, "Dubya and the Gang of Seven," both offer unconvincing political critique.
A One-Man Show in 6 Flavors Treats Confession as Humor By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Judging by the tedious "Albino Pigeon," no incentive exists for seeking out the five other one-man performances by John Lehr at the Zipper Theater.
Home, Terrifying Home: The Not-So-Scenic Tour By JASON ZINOMAN
In a theatrical landscape that often suffers from blandness and predictability, Josh Fox's mood piece is that rare show where you never know what will happen next.
Nightmare Without Hope or Logic By BEN BRANTLEY
The Culture Project's play about British detainees in Cuba exerts an icy visceral charge that is never achieved by flashier satire like Tim Robbins's "Embedded."
Order Archly Bows to Sweet Confusion By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
At the home of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass., Cecil MacKinnon deliberately creates an Ephesus more frantically miscellaneous than the world Shakespeare imagined.
Striving for Authenticity With Ye Olde Guesswork By JOHN ROCKWELL
Two notable efforts, one at the Globe and the other at the BBC Proms festival, pointed toward new ideas for staging Shakespeare and Wagner.