- 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.
- April 7, 2008
- Let Me Be Entertained
A Gypsy skeptic takes stock of Rose’s return.
- March 31, 2008
- Running Unopposed
Even talented playwrights fall into one trap: pandering to the lefty theatergoing audience.
- March 24, 2008
- Upper Broadway
In the Heights brings hip-hop and salsa beats to the old-school musical-comedy form. Plus: Brick, I am your father.
- March 10, 2008
- A Less Cheesy Musical
Passing Strange smashes Broadway clichés with an electric guitar.
- March 3, 2008
- The Digital Stage
Sunday in the Park With George and The Slug Bearers prove that Disney doesn’t have a lock on theatrical pyrotechnics.
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