REVIEWS
Proof
By Melissa Rose Bernardo · May 24, 2000 · New York City
Director Daniel Sullivan has many talents: One need only look at the past few years, and his glorious productions of classics such as Ah, Wilderness!, and soon-to-be-classics such as Dinner With Frien...
Enter the Guardsman
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · May 22, 2000 · New York City
As Enter the Guardsman begins, The Playwright (Mark Jacoby) starts to seduce the audience with his tale of a play within a play. As his story about the romantic machinations of The Actor (Robert Cucci...
Falling Awake
By Roger J. An · May 22, 2000 · New York City
Death provokes a wide range of strong emotions; grief, hurt, and anger often follow its wake. But few realize that humor is also a frequent bedfellow. Come to think of it, a lot of the modern ritu...
Lucrece
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · May 22, 2000 · New York City
The rape of Lucrece is a true crime story, circa 500 B.C. It has been passed down through history primarily because the ravishment of Lucrece and her subsequent suicide brought down an emperor. The...
The Laramie Project
By Andy Buck · May 19, 2000 · New York City
The actors sit in rows on plain wooden chairs, staring out blankly at the audience. The specter of death hangs heavily in the air. This is not the graveyard scene from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, but ...
When They Speak of Rita
By Melissa Rose Bernardo · May 18, 2000 · New York City
Days after seeing Daisy B. Foote's somber, quietly affecting When They Speak of Rita at Primary Stages, I'm still torn over the play. Not over its merits--those are abundantly clear just a few minutes...
Hypatia
By Jack Savage · May 18, 2000 · New York City
While Mac Wellman's Hypatia is a triumph of small stage design and multimedia innovation, its script is frustratingly vague, underdeveloped, and at times, pretentious. And director Bob McGrath's ove...
Lydie Breeze
By David Finkle · May 17, 2000 · New York City
Some years ago, John Guare was included in the first group of New Yorkers declared "Living Landmarks." People who know him or know about him immediately understand why: Aside from having put himself ...
The Real Thing
By David Finkle · May 16, 2000 · New York City
Playwright Tom Stoppard has been getting a bum rap over the years. The conventional wisdom is that Stoppard enchants his audiences by stringing words in front of them like a hypnotist who slowly swing...
Joan of Arkansas
By Michael Bettencourt · May 16, 2000 · Boston
What would you call a musical production that has buckets of "finger-f**kin' fierce" fried chicken being handed around the audience, a score that sounds like Garth Brooks by way of Weird Al, a cast so...
