Donald Lyons
The Archive
A BAD 'DREAM' AT BAM
March 22, 2004 | 5:00amA MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMAt the BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St., (718) 636-4100. Through Sunday. --- 'A Midsummer Night's Dream" now at BAM is performed by the all-male troupe Propeller....
'KITCHEN' A DELECTABLE TREAT
March 19, 2004 | 5:00amMY KITCHEN WARSAt the 78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 W. 78th St. Smart Tix, (212) 868-4444. ---- 'MY Kitchen Wars," which just bowed at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, is...
CHARMING PERSONALITIES SOUL OF 'HEART'
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amOPEN HEARTAt the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St. Through April 25. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- REMEMBER Robby Benson? He was the cute teen idol in such late '70s films...
STRANGE 'EMBEDDED' FELLOWS
March 15, 2004 | 5:00amEMBEDDEDAt the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., AT Astor Place. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. --- IN "Embedded," the satirical, anti-Iraq-war revue that opened last night at the Public Theater, Tim Robbins...
IT'S A 'TRAGEDY' INDEED
March 12, 2004 | 5:00amSMALL TRAGEDYAt Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. Ticket Central, (212) 279-4200. Through March 28. ---- IF you're going to attempt to show how real life eerily parallels the story...
SNOW-BORED 'WINTERTIME'
March 5, 2004 | 5:00amWINTERTIME At the Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St., (212) 246-4422. 'WINTERTIME" is like a Mozart opera minus the music and without the lyrics. Charles L. Mee - known...
LESS SHARP THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH
March 5, 2004 | 5:00amKING LEAR (two stars) At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 W. 65th St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. Through April 18. HE'S a seemingly strong, sensible man, this haughty monarch of pagan...
LOON SERVICE
March 4, 2004 | 5:00amBUG At the Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- SHANNON Cochran makes a very sexy desperado. At the start of Tracy Letts' "Bug," Cochran, as the...
PROBLEM 'CHILD'
February 26, 2004 | 5:00amBEAUTIFUL CHILDAt the Vineyard Theatre, 108 E. 15th St.; (212) 353-0303. Through March 28. . ---- A proper drawing room invaded by scarcely utterable atrocities has become a fairly familiar...
'BILL' AN ACE
February 23, 2004 | 5:00amBIG BILLAt the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 W. 65th St. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- 'BIG Bill" is A.R. Gurney's impressionistic, jumpy, jaunty biographical play about Bill Tilden, the first...
'ROULETTE' CAN'T SPIN
February 23, 2004 | 5:00amROULETTEAt the John Houseman Theatre, 450 W. 42nd St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. --- A zany, surreal comedy needs to observe the world from an odd vantage point. In "Betty's...
DAZZLING LIVE POETS' SOCIETY
February 20, 2004 | 5:00amBRIDGE & TUNNEL The 45 Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker St. Call Ticketmaster, (212) 307-4100. ---- THE brilliant poet- dramatist Sarah Jones delivers an exciting, explosive, funny evening in her...
'PRELUDE' OF NOTE ENDS 'SYNDROME'
February 17, 2004 | 5:00amTHE STENDHAL SYNDROMEPrimary Stages@59E59 Theaters, 59 E. 59th St. Through March 27. Call Ticket Central, (212) 279-4200. ---- TERRENCE McNally enhances his reputation as a light ro mantic comedian in...
'CAN-CAN' RENDERS COLE COMFORT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amCAN-CAN At the City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, through tomorrow. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. ---- COLE Porter's penultimate show, 1953's "Can-Can," is the latest musical to...
FEMINIST 'AGAMEMNON' A REAL TRAGEDY
February 13, 2004 | 5:00amAGAMEMNONAt the John Jay Theatre, 899 10th Ave., at 58th Street; call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. Through Feb. 22. --- ONLY "Macbeth" in the dramatic literature of the West brings the...
'WROTE' DONE BY ROTE
February 11, 2004 | 5:00amTHEY WROTE THAT? At the McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway. Through March 14. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. THE first time I purred in remembrance during "They Wrote That?" - the anthology...
'VALHALLA' HUMOR IS A BIT SKETCHY
February 9, 2004 | 5:00amValhalla At the New York Theatre Workshop, 79 E. Fourth St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200 There's a certain kind of quick, satirical laugh that's appropriate to sketch humor. Milton Berle...
PLENTY OF ON-TARGET THEATER OFF-BWAY
December 26, 2003 | 5:00amTHE dramatic event of 2003 was "I Am My Own Wife," Doug Wright's investigation (now on Broadway) of the incredible life of transvestite Charlotte von Malhsdorf in the Berlin of,...
JUNKIE BECOMES 'ADDICTED' TO LIFE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amADDICTED At the Zipper Theatre, 336 W. 37th St. Call (212) 563-0480. 'ADDICTED" is a one man's comic but brutal recounting of how he clawed his way up from the...
ANTI-WAR TALE A REAL 'LEMON'
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amAUNT DAN AND LEMON At the Harold Clurman, 410 W. 42nd St. Through Jan. 31. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. A PLAY about the makers of the Vietnam War, and human...