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Producers: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh, Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Stratford Festival of Canada
Trying to Extract a Drama From the Blog of an Iraqi By JASON ZINOMAN
"Baghdad Burning," a political drama written by an Iraqi who lived through the American invasion, inaugurates an entirely new theatrical genre - the blog play.
The Seductive Magic of the Dance of Everyday Life By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A Quest Beyond the Grail By BEN BRANTLEY
That "Spamalot" is the best new musical to open on Broadway this season is inarguable, but that's not saying much. The show is amusing, agreeable, forgettable - a better-than-usual embodiment of the musical for theatergoers who just want to be reminded now and then of a few of their favorite things.
The Torture of Ordinary Life By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The Orpheus story is the play's inspiration, but Glyn Maxwell has made it more horrific by transposing it to an unremarkable modern couple.
Crying Out With the News of the Day By ANDREA STEVENS
In Glyn O'Malley's ironically titled play, the characters are stereotypes, their ideas are predictable and their interactions unbelievable.
A Send-Up of the Self-Help Industry By JASON ZINOMAN
The advertisements for Young Jean Lee's minimalist meditation should come with a warning: Potentially hazardous to audience members with low self-esteem.
Who's Minding the Baby? It Sounds Like Ali By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Beware the nanny with bruised knuckles. That's the only conclusion to draw from Rinne Groff's peculiar, unfocused comedy at the Julie Miles Theater.
Back to an Era When Yiddish Ruled the Stage By NEIL GENZLINGER
Can a perfectly calibrated ensemble production also be a star vehicle? Apparently so, because that's what the revival of "On Second Avenue" is.
Just a Boy Trying to Find His Fur-Coated Father By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The usual afflictions befalling teenage boys pale in comparison with the plight of the hero of Kyle Jarrow's juvenile pop musical.
Staying Alive in a Haze of Memories By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Actors Company's staging of a play about the mentally disturbed by David Storey will leave the audience deeply touched and somewhat unnerved.
Two Titans of Drama Assemble for a Battle of Wills and Wits By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Austin Pendleton's delightful backstage comedy at the Barrow Street Theater examines the thin skins and rampaging egos of two legendary actors.
Turn Down the Lights, Turn Up the Dazzle By NEIL GENZLINGER
This show, the last that will be performed at the John Houseman Theater, is a hodgepodge of juggling and rope twirling, with lots of color but not much substance.
A Collector of Art and Artists Tells All and Then Some By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Peggy Guggenheim, doyenne of the 20th-century art world, becomes the latest public figure to be so exhumed in this one-woman show starring the formidable Mercedes Ruehl.
Paying the Proper Respect to the Lowly Arts By NEIL GENZLINGER
In the latest offering from the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, fire is eaten, swords are swallowed and performers exchange uninflated balloons they have sucked up their noses.
Behind the Plain Lives of Two Farmers, a Past That's Anything But By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
John Mahoney displays a mastery of understatement that serves him well in this restrained Canadian drama by Michael Healey.
'Top 100 TV-atrocious Moments' (Repeats Nightly) By JASON ZINOMAN
Marc Spitz's hourlong sliver of a satire exposes the fakery behind silly shows such as "50 Greatest Teen Idols" or "100 Most Wanted Bodies."
Connecting the Politics of Art and Nationalism By PHOEBE HOBAN
David Edgar's 1994 drama tackles everything from the origin of Western Renaissance art to America's pop-cultural hegemony to hostage negotiations.
Tickling a Modern Audience With an Ancient Comedy By ANNE MIDGETTE
The Aquila Theater Company's adaptation of Aristophanes' "Wasps" emulates the wackiness of Monty Python without capturing its brilliance.
Strike a Pose (and Make It Defiant) By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Billy Porter's roof-raising musical autobiography at Joe's Pub is at its best when Mr. Porter is singing his story rather than narrating it.
Those Zany, Sweaty Clowns By JASON ZINOMAN
If you find clowns in sex clubs funny, or using babies as baseball bats, then Jeffrey M. Jones's crackpot farce may be the show for you.
How to Help the Third World? A Satirist Tells How Not To By JASON ZINOMAN
Richard Bean's play challenges the audience's liberal prejudices, and that makes it something of a change of pace.
Life: Go Back and Do It Over Until You Get It Right By ANDREA STEVENS
As demonstrated by the Pearl Theater Company in its production of this 1937 play, there isn't much wiggle room when you are a device instead of a character.
The Art of the Con, Reprised By BEN BRANTLEY
Though shot through a rowdy spirit of self-parody, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring John Lithgow and Nobert Leo Butz, never straightens out of a queasy slouch.
