- January 21, 2010 | The Theater Review
- After the Ball
The new production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter delivers as expected: finely wrought farce, sophisticated banter, and a winsome, easy-to-take view of aging.
- December 21, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Isn’t It Bliss?
A Little Night Music returns to Broadway, spare and beautiful.
- December 4, 2009 |
- Fighting the Last War
David Mamet’s Race has been outrun by a fast-moving culture.
- December 7, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Dancing With the Stars
Fela! can get even a staid Broadway audience shaking its hips. Plus: Kenneth Lonergan’s midlife crisis.
- November 30, 2009 | The Theater Review
- The Story of Oh!
In the Next Room or the vibrator play is pure pleasure. Plus: The strains of Ragtime.
- November 16, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Victorian Secret
You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.
- November 2, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Femme Very Fatale
Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller heat up the icy After Miss Julie. Plus: The Memphis blues.
- October 15, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Ladies’ Nights
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.
- October 15, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Just Put on a Happy Face
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.
- October 12, 2009 | The Theater Review
- Good Cop, Bad Cop
A Steady Rain is your standard TV police drama. Plus, Tracy Letts’s white-boomer manifesto, Superior Donuts.