Donald Lyons
The Archive
HEARTY HELLO FOR 'BYE BYE BIRDIE'
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amBYE BYE BIRDIEAt City Center, West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. Ends today. ---- 'BYE Bye Birdie," revived at Encores! this weekend, is pure...
GIVING US THE CREEPS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE DISTANCE FROM HERE At the Duke, 229 W. 42nd St. Through June 5. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. NEIL LaBute specializes in edgy, nasty, mean struggles between the sexes. In movies...
COMEDY TAKES A WALK ON THE WILDE SIDE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amENGAGEDAt the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St. Through May 16. ---- WE know W.S. Gilbert as one- half of the team that gave us the wittily immortal "Gondoliers" and...
A REALITY SHOW ONSTAGE
April 23, 2004 | 4:00amBETWEEN USAt the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Phone CityTix, (212) 581-1212. --- LIKE the best kind of TV writing, Joe Hortua's new play, "Between Us," gets its...
'HEART' ATTACK STILL POLITICAL & PERSONAL
April 22, 2004 | 4:00amTHE NORMAL HEARTAt the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- NEARLY 20 years after it first played there, Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" returns to the...
TOO MUCH TO 'BARE'
April 21, 2004 | 4:00amBARE At the American Theatre of Actors, 314 W. 54th St.; (212) 239-6200. 'BARE" may sound like a nude revue, but it's actually about gay students in a Catholic high...
SURE AND ALL'S WELL IN GLOCCA MORRA
April 19, 2004 | 4:00amFINIAN'S RAINBOWAt the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 W. 22nd St. Through May 30; (212) 727-2737. ---- BY paring down the book, speeding up the action and emphasizing those luscious E.Y....
'PART' WITH PAINFUL PAST
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE TRICKY PART At the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway. Through May 30. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ONE needs only to hear Martin Moran reflect on his Catholic youth to realize how...
'INTIMATE APPAREL' A FITTING DRAMA
April 12, 2004 | 4:00amINTIMATE APPARELAt the Laura Pels Theatre, 111 W. 46th St. Through June 6. Roundabout Ticket Services, (212) 719-1300. ---- VIOLA Davis reminds us why theater exists - as does "Intimate...
PROMISING 'ROAR' WHIMPERS OUT
April 9, 2004 | 4:00amROARAt the Clurman Theater, 410 W. 42nd St.; (212) 239-6200. Through May 8. ---- THEATER, like film, can open corners of experience at once strange and familiar. In "Roar," young...
NOVEL LOOK AT PRES. BUSH A CLASS ACT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMRS. FARNSWORTHAt the Flea Theater, 41 White St. Through May 8. Call Theatermania, (212) 352-3101. ---- JUST like the campaigns themselves, political play writing - even in a comic vein...
PREZ WIVES' CLUB A FUN FANTASY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFIRST LADY SUITEAt the Connelly Theatre, 220 E. Fourth St.; (212) 868-4444. Through April 18. ---- FIRST ladies used to provide excellent opportunities for fantasy. At least they did in...
ENGAGING 'SARAH' BREAKS UP
April 2, 2004 | 5:00amSARAH, SARAH At the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Through June 6. Citytix, (212) 581-1212. FAMILY - it's the theme of many plays lately, from "Well" to "From...
TRIVIAL INTERRUPTIONS TAINT PUBLIC'S 'WELL'
April 2, 2004 | 5:00amWELL At the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., at Astor Place. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. FAMILY is at the root of theater. Think Shakespeare, O'Neill . . . and Lisa Kron,...
'EARS' CONSPIRACY THEORY LOSES SENSE OF DIRECTION
March 29, 2004 | 5:00amEARS ON A BEATLE At the DR2 Theatre, 103 E. 15th St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. IMAGINE two FBI agents shadowing John Lennon through the tumultuous l970s. It's their experience...
'ENGLISH' REVIVAL TOWER OF BABBLE
March 27, 2004 | 5:00amPARDON MY ENGLISH At City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. CityTix, (212) 581-1212. Through tomorrow. NOT even the Gershwins could save "Pardon My English," the 1933 musical...
TREK FROM SHTETL: 3 GENERATIONS SHOW METTLE
March 26, 2004 | 5:00amFROM DOOR TO DOORAt the Westside Theatre, 407 W. 43rd St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- 'FROM Door to Door" is a tale of progress from shtetl to suburbia, a story...
'FROZEN' LEAVES YOU COLD
March 25, 2004 | 5:00amFROZENAt the East 13th Street Theater, 136 E. 13 St. Through April 10. Ticket Central, (212) 279-4200. --- 'FROZEN" deals with three people who have become, in the judgment of...
'JOHNNY' ON THE SPOT
March 24, 2004 | 5:00amJOHNNY GUITARAt the Century Center for the Performing Arts, 111 E. 15th St. Telecharge, (212) 947-8844. ---- THE 1954 film "Johnny Guitar" was known in old Hollywood circles as a...
THERE'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH OF 'MORE'
March 23, 2004 | 5:00amMOREAt the Union Square Theatre, 100 E. 17th St. (212) 307-7171. ---- ONCE again, a talented person tortures herself with the eternal worry, "Why not more?" Now Yeardley Smith reflects...