Vol. 42, No. 10 / June 2024

Theater

  • December 2008

    More is less

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On A Man for All Seasons at the American Airlines Theatre, and To Be or Not to Be at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Romantic Poetry at City Center.

  • October 2008

    Joys of summer

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Hair at the Delacorte Theater, Noël Coward in Two Keys at the Berkshire Theater Festival, and Buffalo Gal at Primary Stages.

  • September 2008

    Campaign season

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape, and The Understudy & Broke-ology at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

  • November 2008

    The best & worst of times

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On A Tale of Two Cities at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 13 at the Jacobs Theatre, Equus at the Broadhurst Theatre.

  • June 2008

    LuPone’s turn

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Gypsy at the St James Theatre, Boeing-Boeing at the Longacre Theater, and The New Century at Lincoln Center.

  • May 2008

    Friends & neighbors

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Almost an Evening at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, Parlour Song at the Atlantic Theater, and The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club.

  • April 2008

    Signs of the times

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Conversations in Tusculum at the Public Theater, The Cherry Orchard Sequel at LaMaMa ETC., Gray Area at the Barrow Group, and Next to Normal at the Second Stage Theater.

  • March 2008

    Trial & error

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, The Lifeblood at the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, New Jerusalem at the Classic Stage Company, and Two Thousand Years at the New Group.

  • February 2008

    Never the Twain

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On the revival of Mark Twain’s Is He Dead?, the Steppenwolf production of August: Osage County, and the return to Broadway of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming forty years after its debut.

  • January 2008

    Rock around the bloc

    by

    Brooke Allen

    On Rock ’n’ Roll at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, The Farnsworth Invention at the Music Box Theatre, Pumpgirl at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Speech & Debate at the Roundabout Theater.

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