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Playful 'Tube' Considers the Human Need to Be Noticed

In “Tube,” from Incubator Arts Project, the Van Cougar ensemble brings charm and vulnerability to the Web generation’s favorite guilty pleasure, YouTube.

McNally's Bittersweet 'Golden Age' Fulfills Its Promise

Terrence McNally’s “Golden Age,” from Manhattan Theatre Club, offers Lee Pace, Bebe Neuwirth, and F. Murray Abraham in a winning meditation on the joys and costs of making art.

'Donnybrook!,' What Have They Done to Ye?

Irish Rep’s revised, pared-down version of “Donnybrook!,” the 1961 Broadway musical adaptation of “The Quiet Man,” lurches by in fastforward despite Johnny Burke’s lilting score.

'Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla' Is Crammed With Imagination

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s “Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla,” Adam Hahn’s wonderfully silly, delightfully bare-bones parody from SkyPilot Theatre Co.!

'On the Spectrum' Plants a Flag for Sensitivity and Hope

At the Fountain Theatre Virginia Newcomb and Dan Shaked sensitively portray two autistic people in Ken LaZebnik’s “On the Spectrum,” which owes a small debt to “The Miracle Worker.”

'Goldor $ Mythyka: A Hero Is Born' Is Undone by Its Chaos

New Georges’ ambitious “Goldor $ Mythyka: A Hero Is Born,” based on a true story of a “Dungeons & Dragons”–obsessed couple who knock over an armored car, feels more ADD than D&D.

Fractured Atlas Develops Site to Match Artist With Space

NYC Performing Arts Spaces launched Aug. 27, allowing theater makers an easy way to search for available venues that suit their needs.

‘The Best of Everything’ Recreates Pre-‘Mad Men’ Battle of the Sexes

Julie Kramer’s “The Best of Everything,” based on Rona Jaffe’s novel of the same name, avoids camp for an unflinching look at 1950s sexual mores.

Involving ‘Luck of the Irish’ Makes for Fine Drama

Kirsten Greenidge’s time-spanning “Luck of the Irish,” from LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, is an astute play about race and class in 20th-century America with top-notch performances.

Anne Bogart's 'Trojan Women (After Euripides)' Lacks Oomph

Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company fail to bring the necessary drive and energy to “Trojan Women (After Euripides),” at BAM, yielding a staid and artificial production.