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In Nicholas Hytner's strangely aquatic version of "Twelfth Night," spectacle and buffoonery take the place of poetry and insight -- his Shakespeare is all wet.

Without the dazzling cast and direction of the original, the Central Park revival of "The Skin of Our Teeth" loses a great deal of its bite.

Craig Lucas's fine "The Dying Gaul" deserved a longer life.

There's nothing romantic about "Cymbeline," a fairy tale about a princess's search for her husband.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's modern-dress production of "Hamlet" is a tasteless concoction that is neither good nor good for you.

"Nasty Little Secrets" is delicious, disturbing, and deep.

In Arthur Miller's "Mr. Peters' Connections," a retired pilot journeys to nowhere.

A haunting (and haunted) new "Follies" at the Paper Mill Playhouse deserves to run forever -- on Broadway.