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Theater Review | 'Quartett': A Minuet Between Sexual Predators

Passion burns cold in Robert Wilson’s trance-inducing production of “Quartett,” Heiner Müller’s ruthless reimagining of Choderlos de Laclos’s 18th-century novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Lights of many colors dye the all-too-mortal flesh of the ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Wilson,  Brooklyn Academy of Music,  Isabelle Huppert,  Irving Penn,  Stephen Frears

Theater Review | 'Idiot Savant': Still Bouncing Off the Fun House Walls

The disembodied voice, sounding like God with a hangover, lets us know in detail what we are about to receive. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the voice rumbles by way of a preshow announcement for Richard Foreman’s “Idiot Savant,” a play that is some kind of ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Foreman,  Willem Dafoe,  Jude Law,  Hugh Jackman,  Bob Fosse

Theater Review | 'Brighton Beach Memoirs': Neil Simon’s Jeromes, at Home at the Nederlander

There are many rooms, impeccably kept and waxed with nostalgia, in the wooden-frame Brooklyn house that has been built on the stage of the Nederlander Theater, where David Cromer’s soft-spoken revival of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” opened on ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Neil Simon,  Eugene O'Neill,  Laurie Metcalf,  Thornton Wilder

Theater Review | 'I Got Sick Then I Got Better': The Irritating Turns on a Road to Recovery

“You look great.” Now that’s a sentence, you would think, to warm the heart of a woman who admits that she is ever hungry for reassurance. But as Jenny Allen delivers it again and again, with a variety of inflections, this most customary of ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, International Herald Tribune,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: James Lapine,  New York Theater Workshop,  David Lander,  Susan Miller,  Julia Sweeney

Theater Review | 'After Miss Julie': Seduction by Class Conflict

Let me just say up front that I was rooting for Sienna Miller, who is making her Broadway debut in Patrick Marber’s “After Miss Julie,” which opened Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater. She has always struck me as a game, gutsy kind of gal, ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jonny Lee Miller,  Patrick Marber,  Sienna Miller,  American Airlines,  Kelly Reilly

Theater Review | 'Avenue Q': Pulling Heartstrings, Racy Puppets Return

They may have no legs of their own, but darned if those fuzzy creatures aren’t still standing, long after more full-bodied competition has bitten the dust. I mean the singing, occasionally foulmouthed hand puppets of “Avenue Q,” the “Sesame ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Lopez,  Jeff Whitty (actor),  Rick Lyon,  Gary Coleman,  George W. Bush

Theater Review | 'The Emperor Jones': Absolutely Corrupt

The fallen emperor has been returned to glory. John Douglas Thompson plays the title role in Eugene ONeill's "The Emperor Jones," at the Irish Repertory Theater. It’s not that things turn out any happier for the ill-fated title character of Eugene O’ ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Douglas Thompson,  Eugene O'Neill,  Irish Repertory Theater,  Alexander Woollcott,  New York Times Company

Theater Review: Music to Play, Places to Go, People to See

If you get a chance, send a few dozen get-well cards to Henry Miller’s Theater, the new, handsomely renovated outpost of the Roundabout Theater Company empire. Flu season has arrived, and an especially mean virus appears to have attacked the cast of ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Irwin,  Henry Miller,  Gina Gershon,  John Stamos,  Nolan Gerard Funk

Theater Review: His Streets, His Stories, His Life

Lemon Andersen says the word “drive” as if it were holy. Of course he doesn’t mean it in the sense of what people do in cars or on golf courses. “Drive,” a noun that stuck and grew in Mr. Andersen’s mind when he heard it uttered by a demanding teacher ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lemon Andersen,  Millie (musician),  Spike Lee,  Tony Awards,  Russell Simmons

Theater Review | 'Oleanna': He Said, She Said, but What Exactly Happened?

Here’s a little physics puzzle for John, the university professor from David Mamet’s “Oleanna” and a man who practically breaks his neck by bending it to consider questions from different angles: How is it possible that two productions of the same ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Mamet,  Bill Pullman,  Doug Hughes,  Julia Stiles,  William H. Macy

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