REVIEWS
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--...
Dirty Blonde
By Jeannie Lieberman · May 5, 2000 · New York City
Claudia Shear as Mae West
A true story, as related by Tony Award-winning musical director Don Pippin: "A young student pianist [Pippin himself] comes to meet Mae ...
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 ...
Uncle Vanya
By David Finkle · May 2, 2000 · New York City
Roger Rees, Derek Jacobi, and Laura Linney
In his major plays, Anton Chekhov assiduously demonstrates how much "anguish" there is in "languish." His world-weary ...
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
Paul Jones and Peter Byrne as McCartney & Lennon
How much must an artist sacrifice in order to fulfill his soul? Is there any distinction between one's art and one
A Bright Room Called Day
By Meg Donivan · May 1, 2000 · Los Angeles
Theatre of NOTE's production of an early Tony Kushner play leaves Meg Donivan in the dark.
Manchild in the Promised Land
By David Finkle · May 1, 2000 · New York City
Joseph Edward,co-author and star ofManchild in the Promised Land
Joseph Edward and Wynn Handman have turned Claude Brown's remarkable 1965 autobiography, Ma
Stones
By Jonathan Abarbanel · Apr 29, 2000 · Chicago
Jonathan Abarbanel gets rock-solid over a promising yet troublesome new musical at Bailiwick Rep.
