You are not logged in

New York Magazine

Skip to content, or skip to search.

Skip to content, or skip to search.

ARCHIVES

Theater Reviews Archive

February 21, 2005
Good Vibrations

How, I wonder, could one salvage the presently disastrous musical Good Vibrations, which is based on the preexistent songs of the Beach Boys?

February 14, 2000
Clever Merchandising

At the National Theatre, Trevor Nunn updates Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" with ingenious panache (despite a few lapses).

December 18, 2000
Snoozical

Seussical; Old Money

June 9, 2003
Dance With Me

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.

September 30, 2002
Slow Burn

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).

April 11, 2005
Sure Thing

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

January 5, 1998
The Old Couple

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

March 10, 2003
In Brief: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

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."

November 22, 1999
"Book of Days"
October 23, 2000
Bleak Houses

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.

Advertising