- 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.