- December 14, 1998
- Electra Shock
Zöe Wanamaker's punk haircut is a metaphor for this junk production of Sophocles' monumental tragedy, which has been shorn of all its grandeur.
- October 19, 1998
- Birdbrained
The British choreographer Matthew Bourne sticks his neck out with an all-male flight of swans, but his travesty of "Swan Lake" just won't fly.
- October 19, 1998
- In Brief: "The Uneasy Chair"
- October 19, 1998
- In Brief: "'Til the Rapture Comes"
- October 12, 1998
- Revival Instinct
Bad, in the case of John Guare's still-more-absurd-than-absurdist "Marco Polo Sings a Solo"; excellent, with regard to Betty Buckley's searing new "Gypsy."
- October 5, 1998
- A Fare to Remember
Though a new "Streetcar" pulls in every ten minutes, Michael Wilson's virtuoso production at the Hartford Stage Company is the one worth chasing after.
- October 5, 1998
- In Brief: "Art"
- September 28, 1998
- Well Donne
Margaret Edson's "Wit" sets M.D. against Ph.D. in a duel to the death.
- September 28, 1998
- In Brief: "Culture of Desire"
- August 24, 1998
- Taking a Life
In Donald Margulies's fine but uneven "Collected Stories," an ambitious young novelist borrows from the biography of her aging mentor, forcing a showdown.