- April 7, 2008
- Let Me Be Entertained
A Gypsy skeptic takes stock of Rose’s return.
- March 31, 2008
- Running Unopposed
Even talented playwrights fall into one trap: pandering to the lefty theatergoing audience.
- March 24, 2008
- Upper Broadway
In the Heights brings hip-hop and salsa beats to the old-school musical-comedy form. Plus: Brick, I am your father.
- March 10, 2008
- A Less Cheesy Musical
Passing Strange smashes Broadway clichés with an electric guitar.
- March 3, 2008
- The Digital Stage
Sunday in the Park With George and The Slug Bearers prove that Disney doesn’t have a lock on theatrical pyrotechnics.
- February 18, 2008
- Youth Without Youth
The characters of Hunting and Gathering just need to crash on your futon for a few days. Is that okay?
- February 11, 2008
- The Two Americas
Our country, great and ghastly: Little Sheba comes back, and Jerry Springer plays Carnegie Hall.
- February 4, 2008
- Party Jokes
David Mamet’s November spins the White House for laffs. Plus: Richard Foreman, in all his weird glory.
- January 21, 2008
- Earthbound Ariel
The Little Mermaid is such a splashy bore, you’ve got to wonder: Was The Lion King just a fluke?
- December 26, 2007
- The Quiet Men
Baryshnikov knows what to do with Beckettian silence; Pinter’s Homecoming, at 40, is losing its virility.