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With Shanghai Moon, Charles Busch—back in a dress, where he belongs—sashays into ancient Hollywood territory wherein West meets East and complications ensue.

Sam Mendes brings Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya—two wildly disparate views of romance—brilliantly to life; a revival of Comedians is as searing as the original.

Moliere's surgical comedy of religious manners and hypocrisy crackles in a cunning translation by Richard Wilbur packed with more verbal firecrackers than a Sondheim song.

Lincoln Center Theater mounts a smashing revival of Kaufman and Ferber's Depression- haunted comedy Dinner at Eight; Neil LaBute looks at the opportunistic side of 9/11.

Baz Luhrmann's accessible bohemians lack some of Puccini's lyrical, spiritual beauty

Brian Stokes Mitchell's rousing baritone can't lift Man of La Mancha above mediocrity; Paul Newman thinks he's a movie star; Regina Taylor nearly pulls a hat trick with Crowns.

It has been a best-seller and an award-winning TV film, but Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie finds its most powerful permutation in an indelible new stage version.

Richard Nelson's portrait of Benedict Arnold is short on character; Encores! celebrates a glorious decade.

A revival of Ghosts lacks the power to suggest how controversial the play once was; Far Away is a nightmare.

A small-town staging of Saint Joan by a big-time director is the delicious backdrop to Lanford Wilson's Book of Days.