REVIEWS
L'il Brown Brothers/Nikimalika
By Elias Wolfberg · May 9, 2000 · New York City
There are so few plays around New York where the majority of the cast is made up of non-Caucasians that I really wanted to like L'il Brown Brothers/Nikimalika, playing at the Grove Street Playhouse. U...
I Wanna Be Adored
By Raven Snook · May 9, 2000 · New York City
Until last Friday, I thought I was the only loud, funny, Jewish Goth who listened to show tunes in New York City. Brilliant playwright Marc Spitz, whose new piece is titled I Wanna Be Adored, proved...
Abie's Island Rose
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · May 8, 2000 · New York City
Lovers of musical theater who are thirsty for great new shows have been wandering in a production desert for several years. No wonder, then, that even the slightest little sun shower of a show elici...
This Lime Tree Bower
By Lawrence Bommer · May 6, 2000 · Chicago
Lawrence Bommer weighs in on Conor McPherson's celebrated but mysterious triple-threat play.
Sweeney Todd
By Leonard Jacobs · May 5, 2000 · New York City
So richly textured is Stephen Sondheim's score for Sweeney Todd, his 1979 Tony Award-winning musical, that to hear it played by the New York Philharmonic--with Jonathan Tunick's lush orchestrations in...
Dirty Blonde
By Jeannie Lieberman · May 5, 2000 · New York City
A true story, as related by Tony Award-winning musical director Don Pippin: "A young student pianist [Pippin himself] comes to meet Mae West for the first time to audition as a replacement to perform ...
Backseats and Bathroom Stalls
By John DeVore · May 3, 2000 · New York City
Subtitled "a not-so-romantic comedy of bad manners," Backseats and Bathroom Stalls aspires to raunchy abandon but instead delivers an often inspired but ultimately tepid tale of troubled hipsters play...
Uncle Vanya
By David Finkle · May 2, 2000 · New York City
In his major plays, Anton Chekhov assiduously demonstrates how much "anguish" there is in "languish." His world-weary characters--insisting almost boastfully that they're bored, tormented, wretched--f...
Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back!
By Hoyt Hilsman · May 2, 2000 · Los Angeles
The latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running spoof of all things Broadway is reviewed by Hoyt Hilsman.
The Sacrificial King...a play for John Lennon
By David Marcus · May 1, 2000 · New York City
How much must an artist sacrifice in order to fulfill his soul? Is there any distinction between one's art and one's life? If so, what is it? These are the intriguing questions asked in World 3 T...
