- November 5, 2009
- The Lady With (Almost) All the Answers
Sometimes a veneer of professionalism is the only thing masking all-out panic. Julie White, in The Understudy, gives us both at once.
- November 16, 2009
- The Baffler
Willem Dafoe returns to the stage in Idiot Savant—and it’s a blast. (So what if it doesn’t make sense.)
- November 16, 2009
- Victorian Secret
You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.
- November 9, 2009
- Charmed
The first-ever Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow is one hot plate of crazy. In a good way.
- November 9, 2009
- Everyone’s a Comedian
The revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs tries to transcend its tummler underpinnings.
- November 2, 2009
- Femme Very Fatale
Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller heat up the icy After Miss Julie. Plus: The Memphis blues.
- October 15, 2009
- Just Put on a Happy Face
Bye Bye Birdie is as bubbly and sweet as it could possibly be—yet somehow, all its elements never quite rise into the perfect soufflé.
- October 15, 2009
- Ladies’ Nights
In Oleanna, Julia Stiles transcends David Mamet's agitprop script; in The Royal Family, Rosemary Harris is just transcendent. Plus: Ann Landers, a woman who really knew her audience.
- October 19, 2009
- Drama Rush
The season’s October boomlet, from Hamlet to Princess Leia.
- October 12, 2009
- Good Cop, Bad Cop
A Steady Rain is your standard TV police drama. Plus, Tracy Letts’s white-boomer manifesto, Superior Donuts.

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