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June 30, 2008
That Is the Question

Is Michael Stuhlbarg a great Hamlet, or only pretending to be one?

June 16, 2008
Turn Down the Volume!

Would half as much Neil LaBute be twice as good?

June 2, 2008
Silent Majority

Conor McPherson’s ode to frustration.

May 26, 2008
Churchillian Eloquence

The puzzling masterpiece that is Top Girls.

May 19, 2008
This Is Your Captain Speaking

Boeing-Boeing comes out of storage, and the great Mark Rylance nearly gets it airborne.

May 12, 2008
Performance Enhancement

Both The Country Girl and Les Liaisons Dangereuses give virtuoso actors a chance to triumph.

May 5, 2008
Kitsch Sinks

Cry-Baby’s cool detachment saps the essence of musical theater: emotion.

April 21, 2008
Extremities

"...Quartermaine's Terms is a treasure only a fool would miss. The imbecile Moose Murders was an all-time low..."

April 28, 2008
The Feel-Bad Musical of the Year!

A Catered Affair tries to elevate itself by going grim.

April 21, 2008
Nostalgia Is What It Used to Be

On a newly experimental Broadway, the naïvely optimistic South Pacific harks back to a different age.