Byrne has joined with the Public's Oskar Eustis and an altogether impressive production team to turn Here Lies Love into -- what? A musical? A disco musical? A theatrical extravaganza? All three jumbled together.

Last night Bette Midler made a triumphant return to Broadway for the first time in 30 years, playing the brash superagent Sue Mengers in John Logan's one-woman show I'll Eat You Last. It was a bravura performance.

In North Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, two young men live in a rundown house, Phillip, an agile shut-in, and Treat, a menacing low level thief, in Lyle Kessler's Orphans at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

Overwrought and odd, the Broadway revival of Orphans, a 1985 off-Broadway play by Lyle Kessler that was overrated by a lot of otherwise intelligent people, including director Alan J. Pakula, who turned it into a 1987 movie with Albert Finney, has gained nothing from time passed. If anything, it is odder and more inconsequential than ever.

Alec really loves theatre. He had once challenged himself by starring as Stanley in a Broadway revival of Streetcar and he was swaggering, vulgar, and very, very funny, playing the character like a wiseguy and a baby.

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This play, is indeed cinematic in scope. 450 years later, the modestly equipped Lantern Theater and director Charles McMahon solve any issues of scale, with kinetic and fully engaged stagecraft. Theirs is nothing less than an intimate epic.

At the heart of Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson's gem of a play, is a variation on the eternal mystery of the egg, and Matt Friedman has driven from St...

David Mamet is so distinctive that his name became an adjective. So he'll survive this week in which his play The Anarchist immediately posted a closing notice for Dec. 16 and a revival of his Glengarry Glen Ross opened with a starry cast and less starry reviews.

Though the show is aesthetically pleasing in terms of lighting, set, and sound design, the script and the acting are simply not up to par. The show's best moments occur when actors are silent, as the design is able to express itself without the burden of slow-moving dialogue.

In Philadelphia, audiences have been waiting for Perestroika, part two of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America. Few plays with huge colliding social themes hold up as well as Angels, and few are as structurally solid and adventurous.

A fish-out-of-water literature professor finds himself among a quartet of curious women in Sam Shepard's frustratingly enigmatic and yet, fascinatingly dense new play Heartless, playing at the Pershing Square Center.

Like anyone else, the main characters want a meaningful relationship. The problem is, as this production nicely shows, it's impossible to have a meaningful relationship when everything around them is void of meaning.

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Along with 15 random theater enthusiasts, I settled into a stranger's apartment for "site-specific theater," which blurs the line between stage and seat.

As the cast of Tenderloin brings the show's characters to life, the nervous energy that is often found outside the theatre starts to seep inside its walls.

I hope enough time passes that every time I listen to the cast album that will accompany the revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's 1965 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever -- and I know I'll listen to it often -- I won't be reminded of the tackiness of the production itself.

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