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Harrison TX

NY Review: 'Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote'
Primary Stages has a quiet winner in "Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote," directed by Pam MacKinnon and featuring Jayne Houdyshell and Hallie Foote. More »

Getting the business

NY Review: 'Getting the Business'
Writer-actor Victor L. Cahn's "Getting the Business," at the Clurman Theatre, hasn't much to offer except for the redoubtable Susan Louise O'Connor. More »

Richard III

NY Review: 'Richard III'
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's 90-minute condensation of Shakespeare's "Richard III," at the Public Theater, has Ron Cephas Jones as the murdering monarch. More »

Into the Woods

NY Review: 'Into the Woods'
Brit helmers Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel have enthrallingly re-imagined Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods" for Shakespeare in the Park. More »

Bullet for Adolf

NY Review: 'Bullet for Adolf'
"Bullet for Adolf," a two-and-a-half-hour stoner-slacker-dude screwball comedy from first-time playwrights Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, is painful. More »

Summer Shorts 2012: Series B

NY Review: 'Summer Shorts 2012: Series B'
Short plays by Paul Rudnick and Neil LaBute and a brief tuner by Sean Hartley and Sam Davis comprise the mostly beguiling "Summer Shorts 2012: Series B." More »

In Paris

NY Review: 'In Paris'
Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and overflowing with sublime images, haunting music, and subtle comedy, "In Paris" is nonetheless dramatically unengaging. More »

smoker

NY Review: 'The Last Smoker in America'
Bill Russell and Peter Melnick's loud, unoriginal musical "The Last Smoker in America" doesn't deliver on a shallow premise. More »

Summer Shorts 2012: Series A

NY Review: 'Summer Shorts 2012: Series A'
Wendy Kesselman's "Spit" and James McLure's "Drive-in Dreams" have modest charms, but Nancy Giles' "The Accidental Pundette" standup routine is hilarious. More »

Edlyn Gonzalez and Jeff Wojcicki in "Sweet Charity"

NY Review: 'Sweet Charity'
A Latino-flavored staging of the Neil Simon–Cy Coleman–Dorothy Fields classic "Sweet Charity," from New Haarlem Arts Theatre, is a sadly uneven affair. More »

Shelter

NY Review: 'Shelter'
A few stirring songs sandwiched among uninspired playwriting comprise "Shelter," a NYMF show about the plight of women and families in homeless shelters. More »

Le Cabaret Grimm

NY Review: 'Le Cabaret Grimm'
his New York Musical Theatre Festival offering has beguiling elements, but the fairy tale "Le Cabaret Grimm" spins is distressingly inane. More »

The Groove Factory

NY Review: 'The Groove Factory'
"The Groove Factory," at NYMF, dredges up with little charm the last days of disco as the titular club celebrates the threatening Y2KNew Year's Eve in 1999. More »

New Girl in Town

NY Review: 'New Girl in Town'
Uneven casting and wrong-headed revisions sink Irish Rep's revival of "New Girl in Town," a 1957 musical adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie." More »

Zapata

NY Review: 'Zapata!'
Most of the important elements are in place for "Zapata!," a promising and highly original musical at NYMF by Peter and Ana Edwards. But there are problems. More »

A Letter to Harvey Milk

NY Review: 'A Letter to Harvey Milk'
"A Letter to Harvey Milk," at NYMF, mixes the Holocaust, political assassination, cute Yiddish humor, and earnest Hallmark sentimentality to queasy effect. More »

Skippyjon Jones

NY Review: 'Skippyjon Jones'
"Skippyjon Jones," the new children's musical from Theatreworks USA, is more for kids than parents, but it has a beautiful Kevin Del Aguila–Eli Bolin score. More »

Living With Henry

NY Review: 'Living With Henry'
"Living With Henry," which comes to NYMF from Canada, is Christopher Wilson's heartfelt attempt to examine his experiences of living with an HIV infection. More »

Black Milk

NY Review: 'Black Milk'
"Black Milk," from Palo de Agua and High Stakes Theatre, is the New York debut of acclaimed Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev, but the production falters. More »

Prison Dancer

NY Review: 'Prison Dancer'
"Prison Dancer" is a jovial yet touching new musical at NYMF based on true events about transformation and reform.and featuring Jose Llana in a fine cast. More »

Swing State

NY Review: 'Swing State'
"Swing State," a NYMF show about the unlikely friendship that arises in Ohio between a gay chiropractor and a born-again kindergarten teacher, is specious. More »

uncle vanya

NY Review: 'Uncle Vanya'
This rendering of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," from Australia's Sydney Theatre Company, starring Cate Blanchett, is a clear triumph for Lincoln Center Festival. More »

Warrior Class

NY Review: 'Warrior Class'
Kenneth Lin's "Warrior Class," at Second Stage Theatre Uptown, is topical and features some strong performances, but much of the action feels contrived. More »

Foreverman

NY Review: 'Foreverman'
The prospect of immortality is more arduous than appealing in "Foreverman," Brett M. Boles' new musical, at NYMF, about the discovery of the elixir of life. More »

Stand Tall

NY Review: 'Stand Tall'
"Stand Tall," at NYMF, shrinks the epic David and Goliath story down to the playground level, turning it into a simplistic and immature bullying parable. More »

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