Thursday, February 9, 2012

Look Back in Anger (Roundabout Theatre Company)

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By Harry Forbes This is not, as they say, your grandfather’s “Look Back in Anger.” Director Sam Gold has pared down the play, eliminating on...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Rose-Marie (Light Opera of New York)

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By Harry Forbes The Light Opera of New York launched its third full season of staged operettas with as ambitious a piece as they’ve attempte...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Richard Rodgers Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes First things first. This production, which hailed from the American Repertory Theater, is no desecration of DuBose Dorothy H...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Close Up Space (Manhattan Theatre Club)

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By Harry Forbes David Hyde Pierce is a highly adept stage actor and it’s a pleasure to watch him at full throttle in the opening moments of ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Neighborhood Watch (Brits Off Broadway)

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By Harry Forbes In his 75th play, Alan Ayckbourn shows that he is still very much at the top of his game (though when has that not been the ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Seminar (Golden Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes If “Seminar” offered nothing more than a chance to see Alan Rickman at his most sneeringly, witheringly sarcastic, that woul...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Private Lives (The Music Box)

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By Harry Forbes Kim Cattrall proves the real deal in Noel Coward’s classic “Private Lives.” As the mercurial, witty Amanda, there’s nary a t...