Review

Manuscript

The key plot device in Paul Grellong's 2005 Off-Broadway play vaguely recalls Ira Levin's sprightly thriller "Deathtrap," but similarities end there.

Intimately Wilde

The plain facts of Oscar Wilde's life are a real-life morality play, about a man brought low by his own arrogance and foolhardiness.

School for Suckers

This ambitious sextet of 20-something USC graduates has done an admirable job of coping with its crash-landing from the cushioning protection of academia to face the "inevitable day a flashlight shines brightly in our faces," turning their separate life experiences into one collective night of performance art.

'Fifty Dead Men Walking'

Bottom Line: Docu-like film based on exploits of an actual Belfast hood turned informer against IRA terrorists is an explosive cinematic experience.

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Bottom Line: Brilliantly innovative animation gets lavished on a less-than-brilliant story.

The New Testament and Helter Skelter

Here's an interesting pairing of short plays by Neil LaBute. "The New Testament" is a world-premiere showbiz satire, directed by Bjørn Johnson

Union Squared

This deeply unfunny play is a muddled mess from beginning to end, thanks to a trite script and sloppy direction.

Greendale, G.P.

This day-in-the-life drama about doctors in small-town Ohio isn't compelling enough but does offer some good performances and observant writing.

Ukrainian Eggs: Terrible Tales of Tragedy and Allegorey

"Ideally, if anything was any good, it would be indescribable," the artist Edward Gorey once said. If Gorey is to be believed, then to describe "Ukrainian Eggs" is an impossible task.