Coriolanus --timely as usual at presidential election time election time

Coriolanus - a new production by the Red Bull Theatre Company just as New York voters are poised to vote for their next president.Read More

Les Liaisons Dangereuses back on Broadway with McTeer & Schreiber as the boured, troublemaking aristocrats

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber bring the bored, sexual predators of pre-revolutionary France back to Broadway

Two Class Acts--by A.R. Gurney at the Flea

Two Class Acts: Ajax and Squash - A double bill by A. R. Gurney ends the Flea Theater's residence on White Street, before moving to a larger space

Vietgone-- not everyone's romantic family story

Vietgone - sometimes funny, occasionally exasperating and totally confounding play

Freaky Friday, the musical-- big time fun in DC

Freaky Friday - A fun musical based on Mary Rodgers' novel with a top drawer creative team and performer. . .

A Life--David Hyde-Pierce Stars for most of Adam Bock's new play

A Life - Adam Bock's cautionary tale about committing ourselves to life while we can still change

The Front Page-- a Wow! cast but Lane is the one delivering the scoop

The Front Page - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's comedy with Nathan Lane heading a cast as much past history as city newsstands with six or seven newspapers d Read More

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: A Gangster Spectacle at Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: A Gangster Spectacle - The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's resourceful staging of Bertolt Brecht's 1941 epic cartoon.

Plenty--still plenty to enjoy in this revival

Plenty - David Hare's play gets a stylish revival at the same theater where it premiered in 1982. . .

The Cherry Orchard not quite as Chekhov intended it. . .

The Cherry Orchard - A starry cast in a sporadically satisfying new version of Chekhov's last play Read More

Love, Love, Love successfully crosses the pond

Love, Love, Love - Brtish playwright Mike Bartlett's latest play gets a well cast, smoothly directed American production Read More

Sell| Buy|Date, Sarah Jones's new multi-character solo

Sell/Buy/Date - Sarah Jones is back on stage with her usual array of characters, this time reflecting on the sex industry

She Stoops to Conquer--brings the 18th Century back to Off-Broadway

She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith's great farcical comedy given a crisp but true to its time revival by TACT

The Maids newly adapted at Intar

The Maids - The experimental and the traditional collide in José Rivera's adaptation of Jean Genet's play at INTAR.  Read More

Heisenberg--a quirky charmer now on Broadway

Heisenberg - No uncertainty Simon Stephen's quirky romance being a charmer, especially since it stars Mary Louise Parker Read More

Public Enemy-- Ibsen trimmed to a single act at the Pearl

Public Enemy - A slimmed down all too timely one-act version of Ibsen's play at the Pearl Theater Read More

Oh, Hello On Broadway-lots of laughs but not much plot

Oh, Hello On Broadway - Nick Kroll & John Mulaney make their Broadway debut as their crotchety alter egos Read More

Stuffed-- A new play about women and their issues with food and body image

Stuffed - Comedienne Lisa Lampanelli stars in her own playwriting debut.

The Roads to Home-a beautifully staged Horton Foote triptych

The Roads To Home - This lovely production by Primary Stages now at the Cherry Lane Theater has a sublime cast under the fine direction of Michael Wilson Read More

The Encounter--my "on the other hand" review

The Encounter - Simon McBurney takes audiences on a unique high and low tech journey to the Amazon Read More

Holiday Inn-- Old-fashioned, feel-good update of old Hollywood tuner

Holiday Inn - Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge's update of the 1942 music as a lively, technicolor family geared Broadway tuner

The Bakelite Masterpiece-- true story of infamous art forger at Berkshire Theatre Group

The Bakelite Masterpiece - Drama about famous art forger at Berkshire Theatre Group's 2nd Stage

Aaron Posner's much produced play at his home base

Stupid F**ingBird - Aaron Posner's much produced take on Chekhov at the theater he co-founded

It's been a week for the dissolute in London. . .Don Giovanni & The Libertine

Don Giovanni Legendary director Richard Jones brings his interpretation to a new production of Don Giovanni for the English National Opera at the Coliseum . . . Read More -

The Libertine The revival of Stephen Jeffreys' 1994 play about the notorious seventeenth century rake John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester is full of lusty images and dissolute morals . . . . . Read More -