Donald Lyons
The Archive
IT'S FRIGHT NIGHT DURING 'MYSTERY PLAYS'
July 1, 2004 | 4:00amTHE MYSTERY PLAYSAt the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Broadway and 76th Street; (212) 246-4422. 'THE Mystery Plays" - two tenuously connected short stage dramas by young and prolific playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa -...
TAUT MORALITY TALE VEILED AS COMING-OF AGE DRAMA
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amTHE STRAITS At the 59E59 Theater, 59 E. 59 St. Through Sunday. Call Ticket Central (212) 279-4200. FOUR army brats have a lifechanging summer at a military base far from...
KEEN TROUPE TAKES A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHORNTON WILDERAt the Connelly Theater, 220 E. Fourth St.; SmartTix, (212) 868-4444. Through July 18. THORNTON Wilder was a dazzlingly original dramatist who liked to take ordinary people on miraculous...
'BOISE' I DUNNO
June 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOISEAt the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. Through July 18. SmartTix, (212) 868-4444. 'BOISE" may call itself a comedy, but this unpleasant and implausible play about sexual dysfunction eventually...
'AFTERBIRTH' SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BORN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amAFTERBIRTH: Kathy and Mo's Greatest HitsAt the Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St. Through July 11. Call (212) 246-4422. IN "Afterbirth: Kathy and Mo's Greatest Hits," Kathy Najimy and...
CAST'S FAB IN 'RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE'
June 18, 2004 | 4:00amFABULATION OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINEAt Playwright Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. Through June 27. (212) 279-4200. YOU'VE heard of the prodigal son? Well, "Fabulation" is Lynn Nottage's version of...
DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO FIND THIS 'ADDRESS'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amADDRESS UNKNOWNAt the Promenade Theatre, 2162 Broadway. Call Telecharge (212) 239-6200. 'ADDRESS Unknown" is an absurd melodrama set in the early 1930s about Max, a Jewish art dealer in San...
'INVALID' WHAT DOC ORDERED
June 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHE IMAGINARY INVALIDAt BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn. Through tomorrow. Call (718) 636-4100. IT'S not often the Come die Francaise visits Brooklyn - so there's reason to cheer...
'OTHELLO' PUT IN BAD LIGHT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amOTHELLOAt the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street between Lexington and Third avenues. Through June 27. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. WHEN the Venetian army descends on Cyprus in the new...
'CHINESE' WATER TORTURE
June 7, 2004 | 4:00amCHINESE FRIENDSPlaywrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. (212) 279-4200. A man's estranged son, along with two college chums, drop in on the father, tie him up and make him answer...
PASSIONATE SPINNING 'JENNY'
June 4, 2004 | 4:00amHERE LIES JENNYAt the Zipper Theatre, 336 W. 37th St.; Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. Through July 24. 'HERE Lies Jenny," a dialogue-free, dazzlingly danced Kurt Weill affair starring Bebe Neuwirth, may...
THEATER'S HOT TICKETS
June 4, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BARD IN THE PARKS There'll be "Much Ado about Nothing" under the stars at Central Park's Delacorte Theater starting June 22. Jimmy Smits, Kristen Johnston and Sam Waterston star...
VENTRILOQUIST'S AUTO-BIO SHOW SPEAKS VOLUMES
May 28, 2004 | 4:00amTHE TWO AND ONLYAt the Atlantic Theater, 336 W. 20th St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. JAY Johnson has the world on his arm - or so it seems when the...
'ABSOLUTELY' EVERYTHING
May 24, 2004 | 4:00amABSOLUTELY FASCINATINGAt the 59E59 Theater, 59 E. 59th St. TicketCentral, (212) 279-4200. Through June 13. THERE'S "Absolutely Fabulous" - and then there's "Absolutely Fascinating," the new revue by the British...
'BOY' HAS A TOUCH OF THE POET
May 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOYAt Primary Stages, 354 W. 45th St. Through June 27. Call Ticket Central, (212) 279-4200. 'BOY" is a poetic, slightly incoherent mood piece about a mysterious 17-year-old Iowa boy and...
STRONG SHOW OF FAITH FOR MELODRAMATIC 'TRUST'
May 21, 2004 | 4:00amTRUSTAt the Kirk Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St.; (212) 239-6200. Through Sunday. OH, the troubles! Northern Ireland has been beset by an endless plague of violence and hatred. And it...
DELIVERED WITH FIRE
May 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECTAt Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St. Through May 29. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. ON March 25, 1911, fire ripped through the top three floors of the...
UNFULFILLING 'SEX'
May 18, 2004 | 4:00amTHE JOYS OF SEXAt the Variety Arts Theatre, 110 Third Avenue. Call Tele-charge (212) 239-6200. 'WHY do men work out and sculpt their pecs? Why do we [women] wear heels...
WAR IS STILL HELL FOR GULF VETERAN 'SOLO'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amGUINEA PIG SOLOAt the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. --- IT'S not surprising that wartime violence spills over into the private lives of soldiers even after they're...
'STORM': FLASH OF GENIUS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amSPRING STORMAt the Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 W. 46th St. Through May 29. Call Ticket Central.com (212) 279-4200. --- THE very early works of great playwrights are interesting, even...