REVIEWS
Joe Fearless
By Josh Godfrey · Jun 19, 2000 · New York City
Off-Broadway has been host to a slew of popular, genre-busting shows in recent years, such as De La Guarda and The Bomb-itty of Errors. Even older standards like Blue Man Group and Stomp are still tes...
Fanny and Walt
By Jessica Leader · Jun 19, 2000 · New York City
It is always valuable to remember the women behind the famous men, the women whose revolutionary work and ideas preceded those whose names made it to the history books. It's also helpful to be remin...
The Poison Tree
By Dany Margolies · Jun 15, 2000 · Los Angeles
A cornerstone of American legal rights is the protection against unreasonable governmental search and seizure. Where evidence against a criminal defendant has been illegally obtained, for example, wit...
George Gershwin Alone
By Debbi K. Swanson · Jun 15, 2000 · Los Angeles
Breakthrough artists are often both revered and reviled for their work. And then there's the backlash effect: If an artist is known for one thing, he or she is often scorned for trying something else....
Current Events
By Melissa Rose Bernardo · Jun 14, 2000 · New York City
Has any playwright tackled as much in his first two plays as David Marshall Grant has? Give the man credit for taking a bite out of Big Issues: In Snakebit, his first play and an Off-Broadway hit,...
Syria, America
By Elias Wolfberg · Jun 14, 2000 · New York City
Syria, America is one of those plays that feeds you bits and pieces of wisdom when all you think you're digesting is an ice-cream cone. The play is nominally about what happens to four friends, al...
King Hedley II
By Iris Fanger · Jun 13, 2000 · Boston
August Wilson's ambitious undertaking of writing a drama for each decade of the 20th century about the African-American experience has taken on many of the attributes of Richard Wagner's Ring cycl...
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
By Michael Bettencourt · Jun 13, 2000 · Boston
Despite the waterfall of gay themes and references that sluices through Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, the "story" of the play has a quite traditional feel to it: In the end, only...
Romeo and Juliet
By Josh Godfrey · Jun 13, 2000 · New York City
It seems like it was only yesterday when the curious public flocked to see Baz Luhrmann's modern update of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the cineplexes. The over-the-top production va...
The Designated Mourner
By David Finkle · Jun 10, 2000 · New York City
Everything connected with Wallace Shawn's hypnotic play The Designated Mourner inspires a certain awe--even aspects over which neither he nor his director, Andre Gregory, would seem to have control. ...
