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Theater Reviews Archive

January 3, 2000
"Adam Baum and the Jew Movie"
June 5, 2000
"Don Carlos"

Hard to say what's worse about "Don Carlos" -- the acting or the directing.

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.

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