- April 27, 1998
- In Brief: "Saturn Returns: A Concert"
Adam Guettel gets spacey.
- August 3, 1998
- Crocodile Tears
Theâtre de Complicité's attempt to adapt Bruno Schulz's poetic "Street of Crocodiles" is a flat-footed exercise in futility.
- November 8, 1999
- "The Water Engine"
- August 27, 2001
- Comedy Tonight
The Seagull
- December 15, 2003
- The Happy Hoofer
Never Gonna Dance has good dancers and better dances but little charm; an adaptation of Birdy solves literary problems with theatrical acumen.
- June 21, 2004
- In Brief: Audra McDonald at Zankel Hall and The Joys of Sex
On leave from A Raisin in the Sun, quadruple Tony winner Audra McDonald recently gave four performances of a 75-minute concert in Zankel Hall.
- May 24, 1999
- "Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight"
- August 10, 1998
- In Brief: "An Evening With Jerry Herman"
"An Evening With Jerry Herman" is a tribute to a musical master.
- April 10, 2000
- Pyramid Scheme
In a numbingly Disneyfied adaptation by Elton John and Tim Rice, the once celestial "Aida" is decked out in gaudy finery and cheap platitudes.
- February 24, 2003
- Of Thee I Sing
A revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom reaffirms its power; Michael John LaChiusa’s latest is just notes.
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