- 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.