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March 9, 2010
Waterlogged

When the Rain Stops Falling is like getting caught in a spring shower: It’s refreshing at first, but you end up soggy and dispirited.

March 4, 2010
Novelty Act

Martin McDonagh’s thinnest play gets a creepy boost from Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell.

March 3, 2010
And the Hits Keep Coming

A superb and powerful revival of The Miracle Worker pulls none of its punches�emotional or physical.

February 26, 2010
�Dropped From Heaven?� Not Quite.

Sam Mendes’s Bridge Project seems to have everything going for it, so why do As You Like It and The Tempest feel so dead?

February 18, 2010
Another History of Violence

Directed by Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind returns, packing every possible kind of wallop.

January 28, 2010
The Battle After the War

Time Stands Still offers four nuanced approaches to life once the gunfire stops.

February 1, 2010
Saving Arthur Miller From Himself

A powerful cast animates Arthur Miller's wooden Bridge.

January 21, 2010
After the Ball

The new production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter delivers as expected: finely wrought farce, sophisticated banter, and a winsome, easy-to-take view of aging.

December 21, 2009
Isn’t It Bliss?

A Little Night Music returns to Broadway, spare and beautiful.

December 4, 2009
Fighting the Last War