Review

TROJAN WOMEN AND IPHIGENIA IN AULIS

Adaptation at its best is like spirited debate, two viewpoints mingling in an act both collaborative and contentious. When less successful, it's more like mainstream political debate: watered-down, static, and polite. It leaves us asking, What's the point of arguing if we tend to agree? More specifically, what ...

Ballet Hispanico: NightClub

Presented by and at New York University's Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC, Nov. 11-16.

Tales From the Manhattan Woods

Presented by Writer's Stage, Opera New York, and William Holt at the Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St., NYC, Nov. 20-Jan. 17.

Blue Window

Presented by Barbara Ann O'Connor, Michael Rafael and Cellar Door Productions at the 28th Street Theater, 120 W. 28 St., NYC, July 2-28.

18 ARRESTS NO CONVICTIONS

Michael Drescher is the kind of guy you'd surely want to have a drink with. If you had known him in his youth, it probably would have been 10 or 12 drinks, followed by his getting arrested. This one-person show jumps chronologically, starting with Drescher's first brush with ...

Opening This Week - MESS APPEAL

"We live in a culture of accumulation, where to have more is better. But in the land of abundance and plenty, how do you stop?" asks playwright Mark Saltzman. It's a question that weighs heavily on his mind lately, with the opening of Clutter imminent at the Colony Theatre ...

The Lower Depths and Time to Burn

Presented by Resonance Ensemble at Manhattan Ensemble Theater, 55 Mercer St., NYC, June 4-27, performed in rotating repertory.

RESURRECTION BLUES

From the high perspective of his years and fame, Arthur Miller's view of mankind—ever deeply concerned and often classically tragic—has in his latest play moved into the realm of lofty laughter. Miller's profound preoccupation with the personal and collective follies of humanity finds its current expression ...

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

Almost a decade after his tragic death, critics finally woke up and proclaimed Joe Orton one of the greatest comic playwrights of the second half of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of Congreve and Wilde. Like both of those writers, Orton spoke for his age, with a glance ...

Lone Star Love

Presented by Amas Musical Theatre at the John Houseman Theatre, 450 W. 42 St., NYC, Dec. 8-Feb. 6. Casting by Barry Moss.