- July 26, 2004
- 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
- "The Hothouse"
- February 16, 2004
- 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
- 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
- "Mnemonic"
- April 18, 2005
- 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
- The Daze After
Robert Wilson's "The Days Before" is smug, pretentious, and, worst of all, boring.
- May 31, 1999
- 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
- "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan"
Arthur Miller rides (bumpily) again.
- May 23, 2004
- In Brief: Tennessee Williams's Spring Storm
Tennessee Williams’s early and immature Spring Storm is best as a game for Williams fans: How many names, characters, situations, and devices of his later plays can you identify here?
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