New York Times Theatre News

‘Stone Carver,’ a Drama Built of Evolving Memories

Sun, 2006-07-30 04:00
For William Mastrosimone, a work begun as a son's story is completed as a father's account.

Theater Review | 'Geisha': Ong Keng Sen’s ‘Geisha’ Offers a New View of a Tradition Built on Dreams

Sat, 2006-07-29 04:00
A languid, half-playful, half-academic and disappointingly dull 90-minute collage of words, music and dance.

Theater Review: ‘Shout!’ Sings Its Way Back to the Mod Years

Fri, 2006-07-28 04:00
For those who missed the 60’s revival the first, second and third time around, this go-go-booted zombie of a musical is shimmying away off Broadway.

Theater Review: ‘All This Intimacy’ Shows a Louse’s Animal Magnetism

Fri, 2006-07-28 04:00
Rajiv Joseph's play may not be the most substantive show in New York, but it’s almost certainly unchallenged in the creative use of spermatozoa as a scenic motif.

Theater Review: ‘Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise’: Apartheid’s Private Pain Becomes Group Art

Wed, 2006-07-26 04:00
Tormenting memories dissolve into soaring music, and pain is salved by a collective embrace in this heartfelt, powerfully performed theater piece.

Mako, 72, Actor Who Extended Asian-American Roles, Dies

Tue, 2006-07-25 04:00
Mako, a distinguished stage and screen actor, was widely regarded as having blazed the trail for Asian-Americans in films, on television and in the theater.

Critic's Notebook: A ‘Sweet Bird’ Diva Who Evokes Williams

Mon, 2006-07-24 04:00
It would be hard for any actress to top the layers of self-contempt and self-knowledge in Margaret Colin’s fine performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival's revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth."

Keith Carradine’s Long Road to ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’

Sun, 2006-07-23 04:00
If one were to draw an EKG of the career of Keith Carradine, who returns to Broadway after an absence of 15 years, the ups and downs would be as sharp as the beating of an erratic heart.

Critic’s Notebook: In London This Summer, the Hot New Play Is an Endangered Species

Sat, 2006-07-22 04:00
In a state of fragile health, English drama decides to hibernate for the high summer.

Theater Review | 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie': ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,’ Theater for Children, Offers Lessons Amid the Laughs

Sat, 2006-07-22 04:00
The children's book "Martha Speaks" takes on new musical life in this adorable hourlong children's show at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

Theater Review: ‘[title of show]’: Putting On a Show About Putting On a Show

Fri, 2006-07-21 04:00
"[title of show]," which has reopened at the Vineyard Theater, is a zesty, sweet, Broadway-trivia-riddled musical about creating a zesty, sweet, Broadway-trivia-riddled musical.

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Fri, 2006-07-21 04:00
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Theater Review: Time Stands Still, Selectively, in ‘Cloud Tectonics’

Thu, 2006-07-20 04:00
Though José Rivera’s play is thin, it has interesting ideas about time and perception and love, and it’s a good workout for three young actors.

Henry Hewes, Theater Critic, 89, Is Dead

Thu, 2006-07-20 04:00
Henry Hewes was a longtime theater critic for The Saturday Review and the founder of the American Theater Critics Association.

Theater Review: That Well-Known Story of Beowulf and His Ogre

Thu, 2006-07-20 04:00
Heard as a modern setting of an ancient text, Benjamin Bagby’s bardic version of “Beowulf” captures the tale’s terror and heroics.

Theater Review: Time Stands Still, Selectively, in ‘Cloud Tectonics’

Thu, 2006-07-20 04:00
Though José Rivera’s play is thin, it has interesting ideas about time and perception and love, and it’s a good workout for three young actors.

As ‘Hot Feet’ Ends Run on Broadway, Transamerica Is Content

Wed, 2006-07-19 04:00
Like most shows, "Hot Feet" lost money. But Transamerica, which put up about half of the show’s $8 million cost, still considers it a good investment.

From Bucharest to New York, Reality Takes the Stage

Wed, 2006-07-19 04:00
Seventeen years after the overthrow of the Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian playwrights are finally engaging in a very direct way with their surroundings.

Theater Review: 'Bully': Even Caught in the Footlights, a Bull Moose Can Still Roar

Wed, 2006-07-19 04:00
Theodore Roosevelt was a quotable man, and Jerome Alden’s “Bully” takes advantage of that.

Theater Review: ‘Frankenstein’ Tells a Familiar Horror Story With Lots of Songs

Tue, 2006-07-18 04:00
In Robert Mitchell's musical, there is sympathy for the lab mistake disowned by his scientist maker. Too bad the show isn’t better than the sum of its parts.