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Here's hoping that the marathon's series B and C are as good.
The play goes down easy, but its aftertaste is sharp.
From the moment the curtain goes up on Walter Bobbie's whiz-bang production of "No, No, Nanette," you have the delicious sensation that you're going to get the full old-fashioned works.
How marvelous, at the end of the theater season, to find a gem like "Rafta, Rafta ..." lying in wait.
This slight but comforting stroll down story hour in the Lithgow household, directed unobtrusively by Jack O'Brien, trades heavily on this avuncular image: The imprint of his reading glasses…
"Via Galactica." "Rockabye Hamlet." "Dude." These names ring any bells?
In Andrei Belgrader's respectable if occasionally overripe production of "Endgame," the blighted and unmistakably Beckettian deathscape on display offers little promise of new companionship …
Off-Broadway may not have the clout of its older cousin, the Great White Way, but it's not exactly no man's land, especially to emerging playwrights.
When was the last time so much physical prowess and comic savvy were brought to bear on material as undeserving as "Boeing-Boeing," a dismal 1960s sex farce receiving a dynamite revival?
Messrs. Stevens and Fishburne present an unsurprising but nonetheless bracing image: that of the robe-clad judge as war hero.
Put simply, there is more to see and hear and think and process and experience in this production than in any other show in town. It is not an easy story to hear or an easy way to hear it, b…
This water is never still, and it runs pretty shallow.
It's not often that an unknown, just-out-of-school playwright is introduced to New York with a full-scale production at the venerable Manhattan Theatre Club. But Liz Flahive proves that she'…
Roll over, Oscar Wilde, and tell Quentin Crisp the news. With "The New Century," Paul Rudnick has once again swollen the master list of memorable bons mots by a few dozen.
In 2004, composer John Bucchino received a fan letter from an unexpected source: the performer and polymath Harvey Fierstein. Mr. Bucchino, flattered by the attention, suggested they meet. L…
