Seussical; Old Money

In “Master Harold” . . . and the boys, Athol Fugard turns a fox-trot into a haunting allegory of racial equality; Humble Boy has bees in its stylish bonnet.

Try as they might, Catherine Keener and Edward Norton can't set off many sparks in a revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This; keep an eye on Adam Rapp (well, on his next play, maybe).

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, a nearly flawless work, suffers not a bit in the transfer to Broadway.

Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys," with Klugman and Randall, scores by hitting the comic basics -- insults, old age, New Jersey.

Critic John Simon reviews Frank McGuinness' new play: "The American actors were so good at their Irish that I often lagged behind. The bigger problem, though, was what the play was trying to say."

The Butterfly Collection
Written by Theresa Rebeck; directed by Bartlett Sher at Playwrights Horizons.
The Beginning of August
Written by Tom Donaghy; directed by Neil Pepe at the Atlantic Theater.
Lifegame
Created by Keith Johnstone at the Jane Street Theater.

Homebody/Kabul
Summer of '42

A revival of Fiddler strikes a universal note; a tennis legend, warts and all; Roulette fires blanks, but bridge & tunnel is a winner.