REVIEWS
Medea
By Josh Godfrey · Apr 21, 2000 · New York City
Long before there was Lorena Bobbitt or Amy Fisher, the world had Medea. When it comes to pure, unadulterated vengeance, no one can top her, and Euripides' version of her tale is by far the quintess...
The Green Bird
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Apr 21, 2000 · New York City
The Green Bird is a quirky bit of fanciful nuttiness. If you come to it with the right expectations--or none at all--you might well find yourself both charmed and amused. If, because this is a Julie T...
Our Lady of Sligo
By Andy Buck · Apr 21, 2000 · New York City
When nominations for best actress and best featured actress in an Off-Broadway play are announced later this month, at least two of them should be awarded to Sinéad Cusack for her performance i...
Jesus Christ Superstar
By David Finkle · Apr 20, 2000 · New York City
It may be the greatest story ever told, but it hasn't inspired the greatest commercial
musical ever produced--far from it. It may depict The Passion, but there is nothing
impassioned about it--on...
Rose
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Apr 19, 2000 · New York City
In the case of Martin Sherman's new play Rose, Gertrude Stein's oft-repeated phrase "A rose is a rose is a rose" is patently untrue. The character of Rose, as played by Olympia Dukakis in this flamboy...
Family Week
By Ward Morehouse · Apr 18, 2000 · New York City
Beth Henley's poetic and sporadically powerful new memory play Family Week receives the virtuoso performance it demands from Angelina Phillips, who plays Claire, a patient at the Pastures Recovery C...
Sunday on the Rocks
By Dany Margolies · Apr 17, 2000 · Los Angeles
Dany Margolies reviews Theresa Rebeck's play about four white chicks sitting around talking -- and drinking.
The Learned Ladies & Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards
By Jonathan Abarbanel · Apr 16, 2000 · Chicago
Jonathan Abarbanel reviews Court Theatre's annual two-play rep, one by Moliere and one by way of 18th century Japan.
Not Only Sleeping
By Lucia Mauro · Apr 16, 2000 · Chicago
Lucia Mauro reviews Beau O'Reilly's latest, presented by Curious Theatre Branch, an introspective fairy tale of love lost and hope harnessed.
Picasso's Guernica
By Tom Hawkinson · Apr 15, 2000 · New York City
Thalia Spanish Theater has been an institution in Sunnyside, Queens for the past 23 years. Over that time their raison d'être has been Zarzuelas, which are turn-of-the-century Spanish operettas. ...
