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December 12, 2005
Metropolitan Oprah

The Color Purple, polished too smooth, has nothing left but heartfelt uplift.

December 5, 2005
Seascape/Mr. Marmalade

The couples' relationships generate no emotional appeal, and the weighty subjects they throw around tell us little we don't know.

December 5, 2005
Less Than Zero

The Woman in White proves that minimalist Lloyd Webber is as problematic as overblown Lloyd Webber.

November 28, 2005
The Reproducers

A musical about infertility is too sweet for its own good.

November 28, 2005
Hamlet

Like two teenagers at the prom, New York’s embrace of Shakespeare is at once touching and ridiculous.

November 28, 2005
Inspiration Point

The Ruby Sunrise and RFK prove that politics doesn’t have to mean lousy theater.

November 21, 2005
Raucous in Secaucus

Jersey Boys, the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is surprisingly satisfying. You got a problem with that?

November 14, 2005
The Gore Campaign

Sweeney Todd and See What I Wanna See pump some much-needed blood into an anemic season.

November 7, 2005
Double or Nothing

In The Odd Couple, Lane stretches, Broderick cramps up, and the audience gets pretty much what it paid for.

October 31, 2005
A Soldier’s Play

As an investigator puzzles out a black soldier’s murder in the South in 1944, Fuller shows how all of us, individually and collectively, are prisoners of our history.