REVIEWS
A Connecticut Yankee
By Michael Portantiere · Feb 12, 2001 · New York City
In less than a decade, the City Center Encores! series has become an indispensable part of the New York cultural scene with its usually excellent, semi-staged concert versions of classic American musi...
Can't Get Started
By Brooke Pierce · Feb 7, 2001 · New York City
Tom X. Chao's two person show Can't Get Started opens with a lone woman sitting on stage, speaking in melancholy tones about her unhappy relationship with her boyfriend. The speech sounds like bad co...
Sting Operation
By Roger J. An · Feb 6, 2001 · New York City
The HERE Arts Center is a fun venue. It's a lounge, a gallery, and it has several performance spaces. Having performed there myself a few months ago, I have the foreknowledge to avoid the overpriced...
Barbara Cook Sings "Mostly Sondheim"
By Michael Portantiere · Feb 5, 2001 · New York City
One of the most wonderful things about Barbara Cook is that she has no problem in adapting her gorgeous, wide-ranging, technically perfect singing voice to suit the music and words of all sorts of com...
An Idiot Divine
By David Finkle · Feb 2, 2001 · New York City
Rinde Eckert is a large man with a wide oval face and heavy feet. He looks like someone who might show up to fix the washer/dryer or climb out of a UPS van with an armload of bulky packages. That's ...
The Play About the Baby
By David Finkle · Feb 2, 2001 · New York City
Let's hear it for Marian Seldes, ladies and gentlemen! No more than four months ago she made Theresa Rebeck's otherwise tepid Butterfly Collection worth sitting through. And now she's the one you kee...
Time and Again
By David Finkle · Jan 31, 2001 · New York City
Any New Yorker who has read Time and Again, Jack Finney's 1970 vibrant novel of time travel, romance and derring-do, will tell you it's one of the great books about New York City. Outfitted with grain...
Dido, Queen of Carthage
By Dan Bacalzo · Jan 29, 2001 · New York City
Cupid, god of love, sings without moving his lips. In the background, music played on a theremin is heard. Around Cupid, everyone is frozen in place, enraptured. Nearby, a woman kneels on the floor, ...
More Lies About Jerzy
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Jan 26, 2001 · New York City
It isn't just trapeze artists who walk the high wire. Storytellers do it all the time when they walk that fine line between fact and fiction. Lean too far in the wrong direction and the fall is fast...
Resident Alien
By Ricky Spears · Jan 25, 2001 · New York City
What an incredible, larger-than-life story there is behind Resident Alien, the heartfelt, one man show saluting the late, great writer-actor Quentin Crisp that is now playing at New York Theatre Works...
