Fela! can get even a staid Broadway audience shaking its hips. Plus: Kenneth Lonergan’s midlife crisis.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is pure pleasure. Plus: The strains of Ragtime.

You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.

Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller heat up the icy After Miss Julie. Plus: The Memphis blues.

Bye Bye Birdie is as bubbly and sweet as it could possibly be—yet somehow, all its elements never quite rise into the perfect soufflé.

In Oleanna, Julia Stiles transcends David Mamet's agitprop script; in The Royal Family, Rosemary Harris is just transcendent. Plus: Ann Landers, a woman who really knew her audience.

A Steady Rain is your standard TV police drama. Plus, Tracy Letts’s white-boomer manifesto, Superior Donuts.

The Public Theater’s painfully adrift Othello.

Director Joanne Akalaitis returns to the Delacorte with a turgid Bacchae.

What our critics are most eager for this fall.