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2014

“All the Way” is a brilliant retelling of the struggle to win the 1964 Civil Rights Actoriginal ↗
8 May 2014
“Amaluna” shows women circus performers in charming choreographyoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2014
“The Heir Apparent” is David Ives’s riotous rewriting of 18th-century French comedyoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2014
“Potion” is a magical elixir that charms the audienceoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2014
Bonnie Lee Sanders is fanciful and moody at Pescatore cabaretoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2014
“Stage Kiss” is Ruhl‘s funny hokey theater insider jokeoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2014
A woman and her art triumph in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”original ↗
24 Mar 2014
“After Midnight” is jazz lite on Broadway, but it’s still great jazzoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2014
“The Pig, or Ví¡clav Havel‘s Hunt for a Pig” is clever Samizdat as Musicaloriginal ↗
20 Mar 2014
“Love and Information” is a Caryl Churchill quirky disappointmentoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2014
Are Citibank and NSA complicit in credit card theft?original ↗
6 Mar 2014
Shanley‘s “Outside Mullingar” is a charming bit of Irish black humor and blarneyoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2014
Pinter‘s “No Man‘s Land” is the ambiguity between reality and imaginationoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2014
“Waiting for Godot” is dazzling staging of Beckett‘s metaphor for the human conditionoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2014
“Machinal” a powerful and inventive 1920s play about woman who murders husbandoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2014
“A Man‘s a Man” is early Brecht that gives only a hint of what‘s to comeoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2014
“What‘s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined” is infectious modern riff on a master‘s pop songsoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2014
“Cirkopolis” is a political circus as Charlie Chaplin would have imagined itoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2014
“A Night with Janis Joplin” does well to tell the lady‘s music, not her lifeoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2014

2013

Shakespeare‘s 17th-century style “Twelfth Night” is hokey cross-dressing larkoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2013
In “Richard III,” Mark Rylance brilliantly dissects and displays the pathology of eviloriginal ↗
30 Dec 2013
“Winter Rhythms: Sinatra at the Movies” brings first-class cabaret to Urban Stagesoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2013
“Macbeth” gets fine staging by Jack O‘Brien but slim performance by Ethan Hawkeoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2013
“Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz” is a marvelous jazz showoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2013
Julie Taymor‘s “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream” throws fairy dust over audience‘s eyesoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2013
“Betrayal,” Harold Pinter‘s play about a hot love affair, has cooledoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2013
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is another Fiona Shaw tour de force.original ↗
26 Dec 2013
“August Wilson‘s How I Learned What I Learned” is elegant, tough, poetic memoir of racismoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2013
“La Belle et la Bíªte” is gorgeous artistic fantasy, not so good as a playoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2013
Beckett‘s “All That Fall” is tough poetic metaphor of passage to old ageoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2013
“A Time to Kill” is John Grisham at his riveting Mississippi bestoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2013
“The Winslow Boy” is Terrence Rattigan‘s smart post-war take on money v. principlesoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2013
Cherry Jones is a formidable Amanda in Tennessee Williams‘ “The Glass Menagerie”original ↗
22 Oct 2013
“Lady Day” with Dee Dee Bridgewater as Billie Holiday is terrific cabaretoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2013
“Arguendo” a riveting dramatization of a Supreme Court argument over nude dancingoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2013
There‘s little affection between “The Old Friends” in Horton Foote‘s biting family dramaoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2013
Shaw‘s “You Never Can Tell” satirizes Victorian “modern” relationshipsoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2013
“Breakfast with Mugabe” chills in portrait of brutal Zimbabwean dictatororiginal ↗
28 Sept 2013
Musical “Annie” is Thomas Meehan‘s assault on the cartoonist‘s rightwing polemicsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2013
Ramon Valle at Berlin‘s A-Trane: “The Other Face of Cuban Jazz”original ↗
11 Sept 2013
“Soul Doctor” follows the beat of a liberation theology called rockoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2013
“Forever Tango” turns a bordello dance into stylized Broadwayoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2013
Lucy at the Marchoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2013
“The Great Society” is powerful, ironic story of how LBJ brought his own vision downoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2013
Tennessee Williams‘ “The Two-Character Play” is a deliciously surreal Southern Gothic dramaoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2013
Avignon Festival avant garde and traditional dance-theater pieces tell haunting stories of life / politicsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2013
Nice Jazz Festival celebrates 65 years through the generationsoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2013
“The Explorers Club” is a sly, witty, riotous skewering of chauvinist menoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2013
“Cornelius” is J.B. Priestley‘s engrossing thirties play about a company confronting bankruptcyoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2013
“Sontag Reborn” tells the backstory of Susan Sontag‘s lifeoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2013
“The Comedy of Errors” a cool, jazzy 1940s take on Shakespeare‘s playoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2013
“The Boat Factory” is a worker‘s lyrical memory of a Belfast shipyardoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2013
“I‘ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers” Bette Midler‘s smart take on bitter-sweet Hollywoodoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2013
“The Last Cyclist” is absurdist play presented by intimates of Nazi concentration camporiginal ↗
1 Jun 2013
Brecht‘s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is a diverting ironic commentary on greed and corruptionoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2013
“Women of Will” a bravura performance showing how Shakespeare changed his women charactersoriginal ↗
25 May 2013
The imaginary cursing woman in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy”original ↗
6 May 2013
In “Ann,” Holland Taylor smartly channels Texas Governor Ann Richardsoriginal ↗
5 May 2013
“Old Hats” is a charming funny take on life by two sophisticated clownsoriginal ↗
1 May 2013
“Matilda” a smashing political allegory about confronting authoritarianismoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2013
“Julius Caesar” moves from Rome to Africa in powerful political commentaryoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2013
“Finks” is powerful, lively, entertaining drama of what HUAC did to playwright Joe Gilford‘s actor parents and othersoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2013
“Talley‘s Folly” is charming, subtly sentimental tale of loveoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2013
My recollection of Roger Ebert, another vieworiginal ↗
8 Apr 2013
Kathryn Hunter gives memorable performance as “Kafka‘s Monkey”original ↗
5 Apr 2013
At the End, Betty Friedan Broadened Her Visionoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2013
In “The Revisionist,” masterful Vanessa Redgrave is Polish holocaust survivor visited by clueless Americanoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2013
“Happy Birthday” is Anita Loos‘ fluffy ode to loveoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2013
“Shaheed – The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto” is penetrating political theateroriginal ↗
18 Mar 2013
“All in the Timing” highlights David Ives’ very witty spoofsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2013
“Katie Roche” a feminist play about young woman seeking to break out of confines of 1930s Irelandoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2013
“The Old Boy” engrossing but predictable Gurney play about a preppy‘s moral dilemmaoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2013
“The Wild Bride” an inventive, artistic, shocking Grimms‘ fairy tale musical for adultsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2013
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” shines a beacon on Southern misogyny half a century agooriginal ↗
3 Mar 2013
“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is best musical revival of the seasonoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2013
“The Other Place” a fascinating medical mystery features a powerful Laurie Metcalforiginal ↗
21 Feb 2013
“The Man Who Laughs” a gripping live silent film for the stageoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2013
Sentimental “Manilow on Broadway” sets fans screamingoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2013
“Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is Albee‘s searing take on lies and illusion in marriageoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2013
In Berlin mid-July? Botanical Night is Berlin‘s best party of the yearoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2013
“The Suit” is bitter-sweet fable about adultery in apartheid South Africaoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2013
“Forbidden Broadway Alive and Kicking!” is parody resurrected, for good, we hopeoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2013
“Evita” is smart and glittery, but papers over harsh truths of Peronismoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2013

2012

“Golden Boy” is a powerful morality play about trading artistry for cashoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2012
Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” comically channels Chekhov angst into the presentoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2012
“Peter and the Starcatcher” is enormously clever, wildly comic Peter Pan prequeloriginal ↗
23 Dec 2012
“Chaplin” is brilliant musical about life and politics of a great artistoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2012
“WarHorse” an esthetically brilliant parable about the horrors and foolishness of waroriginal ↗
22 Dec 2012
“Faust: a Love Story” is inventive, quirky, surreal take on classic pact-with-the-devil taleoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2012
Erotic “Mies Julie” sears with the heat of violence, not sexoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2012
“Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson” vivid portrayal of woman evangelistoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2012
“Cyrano de Bergerac” is rousing poetic swashbuckler but misses hero‘s romantic souloriginal ↗
19 Nov 2012
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” hurtle through dazzling cabaretoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2012
“An Enemy of the People” powerfully castigates self-serving officialsoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2012
“Detroit” is melodrama about couples near the edge, and one falling overoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2012
BAM‘s “Rhinocíéros” is dazzling staging of Ionesco’s anti-fascist allegoryoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2012
Feds still investigating IDT on foreign bribery chargesoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2012
Why you shouldn‘t invest in the stock marketoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2012
Former NY Fed President McDonough is worried about your $4 millionoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2012
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” is a gorgeous, jazzy, folk & gospel míélangeoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2012
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