REVIEWS
Bat Boy The Musical
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Mar 23, 2001 · New York City
When we first heard about Bat Boy The Musical, we thought it was about baseball. Apparently, so did most of the headline writers in New York: reviewers for the two tabloids have written that the new...
Design for Living
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Mar 19, 2001 · New York City
Thank God for subscription theaters. In this climate of take-no-prisoners criticism, what suicidal commercial producer would dare offer the controversial revival of Noël Coward's Design For Livin...
Bright Eyed Joy: The Music of Ricky Ian Gordon
By Michael Portantiere · Mar 15, 2001 · New York City
Anyone who believes the canard that the work of contemporary musical theater composers is generally lacking in melody should have been at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, March 13 for that evening's celeb...
The Good Thief
By Dan Bacalzo · Mar 14, 2001 · New York City
"I hate people with skills that can do stuff," states the unnamed narrator of Conor McPherson's The Good Thief. He is explaining why he broke the fingers of a shoe repairman whom he'd been hired to ro...
Ten Unknowns
By David Finkle · Mar 13, 2001 · New York City
Since the advent of conceptual art--and in truth, long before the second half of the 20th century--the actual creator of an individual work of art has frequently been in dispute. For instance: Did Pe...
A Class Act
By David Finkle · Mar 12, 2001 · New York City
Under the impression that A Class Act had been quantifiably changed during its transfer from the Manhattan Theatre Club to Broadway's smallish Ambassador, and hoping that the changes represented impro...
Dirty Stuff
By Dan Bacalzo · Mar 9, 2001 · New York City
"I'm going to cut off all your hair and make a wig for my pussy," declares Chocolate Puddin', one of Jonny McGovern's numerous alter-egos in his one-man tour-de-force Dirty Stuff. McGovern possesses a...
Saved
By Ricky Spears · Mar 8, 2001 · New York City
There has always been something eerie about the descent into the American Place Theater, two levels below West 46th Street between Times Square and Sixth Avenue. The staircase and escalator are decora...
Kariuki's Notebook
By Brooke Pierce · Mar 6, 2001 · New York City
As a struggling young actor in the midst of an early-life crisis, Rick Gray did what anyone would do: He joined the Peace Corps. Okay, so maybe that's not what your anyone might do. But Gray wasn't ...
Leaving Queens
By Marc Miller · Mar 5, 2001 · New York City
It's called Leaving Queens and it clearly is meant to evoke the Irish-American experience. So what in heaven's name are we doing plunked down in the middle of Kosovo? The new musical at the Women's ...
