REVIEWS
Seussical: The Musical
By Michael Portantiere · Dec 1, 2000 · New York City
From its press presentation to its rocky pre-Broadway engagement in Boston to its troubled preview period at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, the travails of Seussical: The Musical have been ...
Book of the Dead (Second Avenue)
By Brooke Pierce · Dec 1, 2000 · New York City
John Moran's Book of the Dead (Second Avenue), a multi-media exploration of life and death in the modern age, opens with an overview of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and closes with excerpts from th...
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
By Ricky Spears · Nov 28, 2000 · New York City
I have this acute feeling of déjà vu every time I walk by the Booth Theatre on West 45th Street. There, big as life, is a marquee that heralds Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Inte...
Comic Potential
By David Finkle · Nov 27, 2000 · New York City
Calling a play Comic Potential is asking for trouble. You've got to live up to the title's implications. If you don't, it's bound to be noticed. With his skatey-eighth comedy, prolific Alan Ayckbou...
The Head ... A Disembodied Comedy
By Brooke Pierce · Nov 27, 2000 · New York City
In case you were in doubt, The Head ... A Disembodied Comedy is a farce. It takes place in 1930s London in the basement lab of two scientists, one of whom happens to be a disembodied head. Think...
A Class Act
By David Finkle · Nov 20, 2000 · New York City
Edward Kleban (1939-1987) is best known, where he is known at all, as having written the Tony-winning lyrics for A Chorus Line. But warm, witty, and amusing as his work for that masterpiece may be, h...
The Dinner Party
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Nov 20, 2000 · New York City
Neil Simon continues to wrangle with the meaning of love and marriage, finding parts of himself and his many wives in the six characters who comprise his latest play, The Dinner Party. Simon has previ...
The Rocky Horror Show
By Roger J. An · Nov 20, 2000 · New York City
Some people forget (or just don't know) that The Rocky Horror Picture Show started off as a small-scale stage production in London. Within the space of 18 months, Rocky time-warped its way to motion ...
The Light Outside
By Dan Bacalzo · Nov 17, 2000 · New York City
Light streams through the window, illuminating the large bed and casting shadows across the actors' faces. It's a literal interpretation of the play's title, The Light Outside. And yet, it doesn't...
La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez
By Jason Anthony · Nov 17, 2000 · New York City
Repertorio Espanol brings us La Pásion Según Antígona Pérez, an updating of the Antigone myth to Latin America of the 1960s. Here, Antigone--a young woman "of no age, of no country"--defie...
