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May 23, 2004
In Brief: Tennessee Williams's Spring Storm

Tennessee Williams’s early and immature Spring Storm is best as a game for Williams fans: How many names, characters, situations, and devices of his later plays can you identify here?

May 17, 2004
Soap Operas

Problematic to begin with, the dour Caroline, or Change loses steam in the move to Broadway; animal repulsion rules Prymate’s monkey business.

May 10, 2004
Stereo Types

A pair of Broadway revivals stirs up an old debate about British versus American drama—brain candy or matters of the heart.

May 3, 2004
Show Guns

Two knockout revivals affirm what the originals revealed: that Sondheim doesn’t always hit his target, and that Larry Kramer once, assuredly, did.

April 26, 2004
Mentionables

Lynn Nottage’s new play is as memorably intimate as the intricate unmentionables its heroine creates. In Glocca Morra, things seem a tad underfed.

April 19, 2004
Sleeping Beauty

Broadway’s spring awakening comes in the form of a finely observed drama about a ballet master and the mysterious couple who visit.

April 12, 2004
Scott-Free

Larry Gelbart’s freewheeling Sly Fox seems starless without George C. Scott, but Barbara Cook’s concert provides all the charisma one needs.

April 5, 2004
Out of Steam

The Great Depression bequeathed us screwball comedy, a genre beyond the stars’ grasp in this train wreck of a revival.

March 22, 2004
America the Blind

In Small Tragedy, an amateurish acting company rehearses Oedipus Rex, and it gradually emerges that America is as blind as the self-blinded Oedipus, and its people as purblind as the self-deluded Jocasta.

March 15, 2004
Fool's Errand

Director Jonathan Miller and his star, Christopher Plummer, conspire to cut Shakespeare’s towering tragic hero down to size.