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April 20, 1998 | Theater Review
In Brief: "Golden Child"
April 20, 1998 | Theater Review
In Brief: "The Cripple of Inishmaan"
April 20, 1998 | Theater Review
In Brief: "Much Ado About Nothing"

Cheek By Jowl's "Much Ado About Nothing" is.

April 20, 1998 | Theater Review
In Brief: "Golden Child"
April 6, 1998 | Theater Review
The Lies That Bind

Two views of family life from O'Neill: one a fantasy, the other the grim truth.

April 6, 1998 | Theater Review
In brief: "The Deep Blue Sea"

"The Deep Blue Sea" attempts profundity but doesn’t quite deliver.

March 30, 1998 | Theater Review
Sweet and Sour

Dancing despite the Nazis, the tawdry chorines of "Cabaret" provide a bracing alternative to "The Sound of Music"'s sugarcoated Trapps.

March 23, 1998 | Theater Review
Highland High Jinx

In the Public Theater's misbegotten production of "Macbeth," Alec Baldwin plays the overambitious thane like a slick Wall Street operator.

March 16, 1998 | Theater Review
Art Attack

"Art" cunningly eviscerates the highfalutin hypocrisy of modern painting.

March 16, 1998 | Theater Review
In Brief: "A Flea in Her Ear"

"A Flea in Her Ear" is part bedroom farce, part comedy of manners.