Graeter's Ice Cream: The real star of Dead Accounts

Dead Accounts - Theresa Rebeck's you can/can't go home agan tragi-comedy is likely to make you wish Graeter's would open an ice cream chain in Manhattan

A Kosher Story with Universal appeal. . .

My Name is Asher Lev - You don't have to be Jewish to relate to Asher Le's conflict of reconciling his allegiance to and comfort in his ultra orthodox upbringing and his need to fulfill his extraordinary gift as an artist. . . . Read More

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The Dark Earth and the Light Sky - Richard Eyre directs Nick Dear’s biographical play about the Edwardian poet Edward Thomas who started writing poetry in 1914 and who died in 1917 in the First World War. . . . Read More


Sweet Smell of Success - It’s sadly easy to see why success eluded the show on Broadway; one can only hope for the sake of the hardworking team behind this latest incarnation that the title is a little more apt this time. . . . Read More

People Nicholas Hytner directs Alan Benett's assuredly and the performances are outstanding. - . . . Read More

Uncle Vanya - This production yawns from the first interminable act. . . . Read More

A winning revival of Augustw Wilson's Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Piano Lesson  - the 1990 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by August Wilson, that is now having a stirring revival at the Signature Theater. . . . Read More

We review Cusi Crum's new play

Radiance - not Labrynth Theater Company's usual dramatically gritty play, but a worthy dramatic consideration of how the dark side of man’s nature was able to forever change the course of human destiny. . . .

A mercifully quick death for The Performers

The Perfomers - To an early grave-- closing 11/18 , 7 days after it opened . . . Read More

A thriller that fails to thrill

The Good Mother - Gretchen Mol is compellingas the title character. If only the play she's in were more compelling. . . . Read More

At last, a substantial new musical

Giant - In a season dominated by musical revivals, a new musical that more than lives up to its title, has finally opened . . . Read More

My candidate for the best theatrical bargain around

Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar may see his reputation as a playwright soar by this gripping, unsettling play that shows us how easy it is for well-educated, socially sophisticated, politically savvy people to loose their cool and their sense of perspective when it comes to matters concerning religious beliefs, social standing, and cultural identity

Hwang's play better now than the original

Golden Child - Whether you've seen it before or not, Golden Child at the Signature is a golden opportunity to catch two hours of solid, entertaining theater. . . .

My candidate for the most fun new/old show

the Mystery of Edwin Drood - It's more mischievous than mysterious, but it offers, a couple of wonderfully undemanding hours of entertainment in the grand old tradition of the English music hall. . . . Read More

My candidate for most unnecessary new play

The Perfomers - Blessed as this new comedy is with a first-class cast, the insipid story with its desperate to titillate porn film background simply isn't the edgy, Broadway worthy comedy it aims to be — unless you adjust H. L. Mencken's famous quote to "you can't go wrong underestimating the taste of Broadway theater goers." . . . Read More

Chekhov's first play well worth seeing

Ivanov Though even the cleverest and most Chekhov savvy director can't transform Ivanov from being a duckling among Chekhov's swans, Classic Stage has given its production the swan treatment. . . . Read More

A whale-sized man is hard to look at-- or away from

The Whale - Samuel D. Hunter's touching yet repellent, sad but also funny new play, with a riveting performance by Shuler Hensley . . . Read More

Movie & Masterpiece stars Make The Heiress new again

The Heiress - while we've had a plethora of revivals, this one makes a strong case for not relegating the well-made genre — at least not the one with solid literary roots — to the theatrical dustbin. At close to three hours, this revival flies by, more satisfyingly than a lot of today's stylishly trim ninety-minute plays . . . Read More