Review

OF MICE AND MEN

George and Lennie are still fantasizing about "livin' off the fat a' the land" 68 years after they first drank from the banks of the Salinas River on their way to jobs bucking barley outside Soledad. After all these years, Steinbeck's timeless masterwork still evokes the loneliness and hardship ...

TEARING THE LOOM

Gary Mitchell's historical drama, set in 1798 Ireland, takes a little while to get going, but once it does it's a powerful experience. The Furious Theatre Company delivers a production appropriate to its name, a brutal look at the atrocities that can be committed in the name of ...

Cop-Out

Reviewed by Victor Gluck

REVIEWS: Theatre

Bruce Vilanch: Almost

A Question of Mercy

Presented by The Initiative Theatre Company at Altered Stages Theatre, 212 W. 29 St., 2nd Floor, NYC, June 6-24.

Othello

Presented by the Neolight Theatre Company and Penguin Productions at the Present Company Theatorium, 198 Stanton St., NYC, July 8-31.

PATHÉ X

The Zoo District continues its passionate pursuit of history and cerebral complexity with this tribute to surrealism and the importance of following one's own dream. Viewers familiar with novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's text of The Master and Margarita were especially impressed with the ZD adaptation's brilliant costuming and ...

Every Day a Visitor

Presented by the New Federal Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway (at W. 76 St.), NYC, May 24-July 1.

Rude Entertainment

Presented by the Drama Dept. at the Greenwich House Theatre, 27 Barrow St., Oct. 3-28.

Arabian Nights

Reviewed by Carolyn Albert