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Theater Reviews Archive

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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