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March 13, 2000 | Theater Review
"The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"
March 13, 2000 | Theater Review
Heavenly Hash

"The Eternal Road" is a three-and-a-half-hour trudge over far too many potholes.

March 13, 2000 | Theater Review
"The Torch-Bearers"
March 6, 2000 | Theater Review
Love Canal

"The Time of the Cuckoo," a wry fifties-era play about sex and marriage among Americans in Venice, is still fresh half a century later.

March 6, 2000 | Theater Review
"The Wild Party"
March 6, 2000 | Classical Music Review
Some Like It Tepid

The Met finally puts on Franz Lehár's effervescent operetta "The Merry Widow" -- but stolid rather than blithe is the dispiriting result.

March 6, 2000 | Theater Review
"Two Sisters and a Piano"
February 28, 2000 | Theater Review
Broadway Bound

Scuttled en route to its opening 45 years ago, Stephen Sondheim's "Saturday Night" is finally unveiled -- full of promise and the riches to come.

February 28, 2000 | Theater Review
Encores!

"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"

February 21, 2000 | Theater Review
P-Shaw!

In this precious travesty staged by Roger Rees, Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" is both disarmed and unmanned