Peace for Mary Frances a new play that tries to do too much

Peace for Mary Frances - Well acted, nicely staged but flawed new play from the New Group

The Beast in the Jungle-- Henry James updated and dancng magnificently

The Beast in the Jungle - The sublime cast of dancers headed by two stars from Broadway and the classical Ballet World— Tony Yazbek and Irina Dvorovenko— beautifully evokes the glad, sad and and scary elements of this half a century spanning love story. . . Read More

Early Stephe Adly Guirgis play gets handsome and still funny revival

Our Lady of 121st Street -Stephen Adly Guirgis's early play still a terrific dark human comedy Read More

Caryl Churchill's early play-- timely but stil challenging to followl

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - Caryl Churchill's early play is back at New York Theatre WorkshopRead More

The latest Long Day's Journey Into Night now at BAM

Long Day's Journey into Night - The Bristol Old Vic has brought New York a creditable staging of O'Neill's masterpiece. Lesley Manville is giving a performance that's damn near definitive. How fitting that these British Tyrones have made the long journey from southwest England to the city of the great playwright's birth. Read More

Paradise Blue--part of Domonique Morisseau's Detroit trilogy

Paradise Blue - Dominique Morisseau's bluesy tribute to August Wilson, with a noirish nod to Tennessee Williams Read More

Dance Nation-- a play about but not really for young teens

Dance Nation - No play on the New York boards is fiercer or more original than Clare Barron's satire and unusually cast tween-aged group portrait Read M

Review of A Brief History of Women at Brits Off-Broadwa

A Brief History Of Women - Alan Ayckbourn's latest comedy is more the history of an ordinary man and an extraordinarily grand house. .. Read More

Summer and Smoke--a fine Alma but excessively bare staging

Summer And Smoke - Even in a disappointing production like this, Williams's language still gives Marin Ireland, this Alma, an opportunity to break our hearts. . . Read More