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December 24, 2007
Holiday Spirit

The Seafarer and Black Nativity both meditate upon the wages of sin, just in time for Christmas.

December 17, 2007
And Newly Opened...

Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County is what O’Neill would be writing in 2007; The Farnsworth Invention is all surface and patter, but what a surface and what patter!

December 10, 2007
Outdoing Shakespeare

Martha Plimpton, in Cymbeline, may actually be better than the play deserves.

December 3, 2007
My Kingdom for a Director!

What’s wrong with Richard III.

November 26, 2007
We’ve Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway

Never fear: It’s an uncommonly good week off the Great White Way.

November 8, 2007
Come On, Feel the Noise

Young Frankenstein falls short of super-duper, but Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll is a mother of an invention.

November 12, 2007
'Hamlet'

In their new Hamlet, the Wooster Group takes a maximalist approach to reviving a classic, attempting to duplicate a film of Richard Burton’s 1964 production.

November 12, 2007
'A Bronx Tale'

Chazz Palminteri’s one-man show about his childhood at 187th Street and Belmont Avenue overflows with the barbed, tumbling New York�ese that �fuhgeddaboudit� only hints at.

November 12, 2007
Nose Job

In Cyrano, the rarely seen Kevin Kline reveals his extraordinary skill in little flashes.

November 5, 2007
Battle Ready

A funny, filthy soldier’s-eye view of Iraq.