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Theater Reviews Archive

July 19, 1999
"The Taming of the Shrew"
September 23, 2002
In Brief: Three-Cornered Moon

Jeremy Gerard's review of Three-Cornered Moon

January 3, 2005
Whispers and Size

Fat Pig reveals Neil LaBute’s strengths (cruel wit) and weaknesses (the tender bits).

January 3, 2005
A Number

The new golden rule for playwrights is: the less comprehensible, the better.

January 3, 2005
The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was 24 when he wrote The Rivals (1775), a “safe play for young people—a Restoration comedy without sex,” as Graham Greene said.

November 24, 2003
Bum Rap

A Pinter revival makes no case for The Caretaker; Paula Vogel’s Christmas tale is a multiculti mishmash; Fame won’t live forever in Times Square.

December 13, 2004
Belle Epoque

The playwrights have certainly met quota in their perverse biographical work about Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s syphilitic final days in Montmartre.

March 1, 2004
The Tell-Tale Art

Confronted with divine works, the characters in Terrence McNally’s two playlets react with decidedly profane thoughts.

November 12, 2001
In Brief

By Jeeves
Wonder of the World
Noises Off

October 30, 2000
Infighting Irish

Juno and the Paycock
By Sean O'Casey.
Directed by John Crowley at the Gramercy Theatre.
Stranger
By Craig Lucas.
Directed by Mark Brokaw at the Vineyard Theatre.
Texts for Nothing
By Samuel Beckett.
Directed by Bill Irwin at the Classic Stage Company.

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