REVIEWS
Miss Lulu Bett
By David Finkle · Mar 27, 2000 · New York City
It's not every day the chance pops up to see a production of Zona Gale's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Miss Lulu Bett. In fact, as things currently stand, it comes around every 80 years, slightly m...
The Way of the World
By Josh Godfrey · Mar 24, 2000 · New York City
The Pearl Theatre is presently swamped with love, lust, jealousy, betrayal, and fashion in their revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World. With a plot that might as well have serves as div...
The Way of the World
By Josh Godfrey · Mar 24, 2000 · New York City
The Pearl Theatre is presently swamped with love, lust, jealousy, betrayal, and fashion in its revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World. With a plot that might as well have served as div...
A Moon for the Misbegotten
By David Finkle · Mar 24, 2000 · New York City
A Moon for the Misbegotten is Eugene O'Neill's prayer for the inconsolable. The title says as much, although the play could just as easily have been called Long Night's Journey Into Day for the way ...
Riverdance On Broadway
By Barbara and Scott Siegel · Mar 24, 2000 · New York City
A dance pageant that will likely be this year's guiltiest pleasure, Riverdance on Broadway still manages to shine despite having more flaws than a one-carat diamond.
The original Irish stepdancing ...
The Waverly Gallery
By Melissa Rose Bernardo · Mar 24, 2000 · New York City
After making his name as a playwright with the slacker comedy This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan ended up waiting a few years until his next theatrical venture. In the meantime, he's toiled away fo...
American Buffalo
By David Marcus · Mar 23, 2000 · New York City
Sizzling, ferocious, superb. These were the first choice words given to David Mamet's American Buffalo, which won the 1977 Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American play. The Atlantic Theater Co...
True West
By David Finkle · Mar 21, 2000 · New York City
Stand back, Sam Shepard fans. The print equivalent of those flying-food scenes the apocalypse-soon playwright likes to slot into his volatile works is about to take place. Some verbal tomatoes are t...
Splendora
By Leonard Jacobs · Mar 21, 2000 · New York City
One can't read or hear a name or title like Splendora and not quickly focus on the multiplicity of potential cultural references entombed in the name. Endora: Agnes Moorehead on television's "Bewit...
Hamlet
By Robert Kent · Mar 20, 2000 · New York City
"Brevity is the soul of wit," wrote Shakespeare. In the hands of director Ellen Beckerman, brevity is also the soul of drama. Beckerman's spirited, 90-minute adaptation of William Shakespeare's Haml...
