Review

Crowns

Presented by and at Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43 St., NYC, Dec. 3-Jan. 5.

Applause Theatre and Cinema

Applause Theatre and Cinema Books

Vincent in Brixton

Presented by Lincoln Center Theater, casting by Daniel Swee, at the Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45 St., NYC, March 6-May 4.

The Mother

Presented by and at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, 74A E. Fourth St., NYC, March 27-April 13.

JEWTOPIA

For anyone who can't wait for the new crop of mindless summer movies, this offering should nicely fill the gap. Taking a fairly intriguing concept—a Jewish man who only dates gentiles and a gentile man who obsesses about a Jewish wife—Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson, with the ...

LYSISTRATA 2003

Political satire can be tricky, as Aristophanes learned when in 411 B.C. he wrote the play upon which this adaptation is based. He was constantly in hot water for taking on the governing establishment of his day. However, Aristophanes—and countless playwrights after him—knew how to distance his ...

SB Dance: The Bucket

Self-presented at Williamsburg Art Nexus, 205 N. Seventh St., Brooklyn, NYC, Jan. 16-18.

Armitage Gone! Dance

Self-presented at the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., NYC, March 2-7.

SIX CHARACTERS LOOKING FOR A WRITER

There are two tacks one could take in reviving a revolutionary, challenging play. One could simply play the piece as originally written, inviting the audience to imagine itself visiting the material for the first time; or one could adapt the play for a modern audience in an attempt to recreate ...

THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

If the essence of drama is conflict, then this drama of a king driven mad by his own folly fulfills its parameters. Not only is there one determining conflict, there are several, all simmering at the same time, and evil and good are punished equally in this bloody history. The ...