REVIEWS
Snuffhouse Dustlouse
By Jason Anthony · Sep 15, 2000 · New York City
Snuffhouse Dustlouse was first performed in 1990 by Gavin Glover and Liz Walker, the brains and hands behind Faulty Optic puppet theater. Since then, the show has toured worldwide, becoming a sign...
Coriolanus
By David Finkle · Sep 15, 2000 · New York City
If Coriolanus had decided to do what George W. Bush has vowed--to go out and ask the "real people" for their votes--William Shakespeare wouldn't have had much call to write Coriolanus. But since the ...
Blithe Spirit
By Charles Wright · Sep 13, 2000 · New York City
"I shall ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war," Sir Noël Coward recalled long after the fac...
Anything Goes
By David Hurst · Sep 12, 2000 · New Jersey
To say that Chita Rivera defies all the laws of nature and the passage of time could well be the understatement of the new millennium. All of this seems to be the case based on her dazzling performanc...
Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill
By David Finkle · Sep 6, 2000 · New York City
When Kurt Weill came to America from Germany in 1935, he changed the pronunciation of his surname; what had been a homonym for "vile" became a homonym for "wile." Maybe the composer was being deliber...
The Cradle Will Rock
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Aug 30, 2000 · New York City
There was a time in New York when theater really mattered. Plays reverberated with the life of the city, its passions, its politics, its hunger. During the 1930s and 1940s, productions ran the gamut...
High Infidelity
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Aug 29, 2000 · New York City
The only true infidelity in John Dooley's new play at the Promenade Theatre is that of the author breaking the bond with his audience. Dooley's High Infidelity is billed as a comedy, but the laughs ar...
Don Juan in Hell
By David Finkle · Aug 22, 2000 · New York City
The late actor and playwright Robert Morley once defined good theater as four actors sitting on a divan, talking. By this measure, he must have counted as heavenly, despite
its title, George Bernard...
Cyrano de Bergerac
By Charles Wright · Aug 22, 2000 · New York City
Halfway through Act I of the first press preview of Aquila Theatre Company's vigorous new production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Anthony Cochrane, as the homely title character, began losing his long fal...
