Review

Solace

Presented by and at the WorkShop Theater Company, 312 W. 36 St., 4th fl., NYC, Nov. 13-22.

ALL MY SONS

Arthur Miller's post-World War II drama offers a still-resonant morality tale about our responsibility to humanity at large and the limits of familial loyalty. The white-picket-fence façade of capitalistic America comes tumbling down in Miller's shattering amalgam of Greek tragedy and an Ibsen-inspired message play. The Actors Co-op ...

CLOSER

There's a particularly haunting prop in this piece that, like the play itself, has something dark and true to say about human behavior. It's a desk toy—a set of metal balls suspended so that if you lift and release a ball on one end, the impact of ...

Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway

Once you tune into its mad orgy of disappointments and diatribes,Kiki & Herb:Alive on Broadway, at the Helen Hayes Theatre, becomes a gleefully subversive mixture of rant and camp, tragedy and trash.

REVIEWS

DANCE WITH

VAN GOGH

at the Chance Theater

Tranced

Layered with provocative ethical questions, the play leaves us thinking even after it ends. Its topicality engenders reflection, as good theatre should.

FANTASIA

at the Glendale Community

BED, BOYS, AND BEYOND

In the worst gay-theatre year within memory, the West Coast premiere of this classy 2000 Off-Broadway revue seems like a life raft amid a sea polluted with theatrical flotsam. Expect lines around the block. What this charming vehicle about gay male culture lacks in startling new insights, it makes up ...