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John Simon

March 6, 2000 | Theater Review
Love Canal

"The Time of the Cuckoo," a wry fifties-era play about sex and marriage among Americans in Venice, is still fresh half a century later.

July 26, 2004 | Theater Review
Farce Time

A splashy, trashy, unsubtle—but audience-pleasing— Shakespeare in the Park; Baryshnikov as a man who believes he’s a car.

March 22, 1999 | Theater Review
"The Hothouse"
February 16, 2004 | Theater Review
Winging It

Adam Bock’s aviary parable aims for fanciful but delivers tedium; Musical of Musicals, on the other hand, hits its targets with sophisticated affection.

August 11, 2003 | Theater Review
The Twain Meet

A charming revival of Big River mixes hearing and deaf actors performing together; Avenue Q reinvents Sesame Street as adult entertainment.

February 7, 2000 | Theater Review
"Mnemonic"
April 18, 2005 | Theater Review
Going to St. Ives

Here the chief concern is what I’ll call the Cold Peace, whereby the West, including ophthalmologists, is blind to Third World genocide.

July 26, 1999 | Theater Review
The Daze After

Robert Wilson's "The Days Before" is smug, pretentious, and, worst of all, boring.

May 31, 1999 | Theater Review
Bower Play

The interwoven monologues of Conor McPherson's early work blow his "The Weir" (and rival Martin McDonagh) off the stage.

April 24, 2000 | Theater Review
"The Ride Down Mt. Morgan"

Arthur Miller rides (bumpily) again.

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