REVIEWS
Hi Everybody!
By Robert Kent · Apr 11, 2000 · New York City
Last Friday night, the house manager at Dance Theater Workshop stepped onto the stage and asked theatergoers to turn off any beepers, cell phones, fax machines, pagers or microwave ovens they may ha...
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
By Michael Portantiere · Apr 11, 2000 · New York City
There's at least one reason why every musical theater aficionado should attend performances by the Village Light Opera Group. Where else in the modern world can one go to hear the brilliant orchestr...
Moving Bodies
By Kathryn Walat · Apr 10, 2000 · New York City
Sex and science don't mix. At least, that's what young Richard Feynman's dad keeps telling him. But this is just one of the many theories that the Nobel Prize-winning physicist--who once kept a topl...
B.J.: The Trail of a Transgender Country Singing Star
By Raven Snook · Apr 7, 2000 · New York City
Scott Hess is not transgendered, but he plays one on the stage. He is an actor who attempts to give a tour de force performance as multiple characters in his one man show B.J.: The Trail of a Tra...
Simone De Beauvoir: On Sex, Art & Feminism
By Shana Liebman · Apr 7, 2000 · New York City
Most people only know Simone de Beauvoir as the common-law wife of Jean Paul Sartre and as the author of The Second Sex. Emily Blake's one-woman show, Simone De Beauvoir: On Sex, Art & Feminism, att...
The Year of the Baby
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Apr 7, 2000 · New York City
On the way to your seat at The Year of the Baby at Soho Rep, you have to walk on the set, the floor of which is wall-to-wall dirt. If you're wearing good shoes, you'll wish you wore sneakers. Once the...
Vieux Carré
By Robert Kent · Apr 4, 2000 · New York City
Tennessee Williams in the French Quarter. Robert Kent reviews.
Animal Magnetism
By Jessica Leader · Apr 3, 2000 · New York City
If there were awards for Best Program for an Off-Off Broadway Play--or even Best Program for a Live Cartoon in Animal Drag, as Mabou Mimes's newest piece, Animal Magnetism, subtitles itself--this play...
Boy Gets Girl
By Jonathan Abarbanel · Apr 3, 2000 · Chicago
Jonathan Abarbanel studies this study of stalking, as dramatized by up-and-coming playwright Rebecca Gilman.
Voice of Good Hope
By Catey Sullivan · Apr 3, 2000 · Chicago
Catey Sullivan reviews this work about the triumphant, courageous Texas Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan.