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Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp accept well-deserved applause for Movin' Out
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MOVIN' OUT
Director-choreographer Twyla Tharp's amazing dancers bring out all the spirit and energy of Billy Joel's music in an exhilarating dance musical. For Joel fans, a total delight; for anyone interested in new directions for the rock musical, a must. |
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THE GENERAL FROM AMERICA
Richard Nelson's play about Benedict Arnold, produced at Houston's Alley Theater and off-Broadway's Theater for a New Audience, is one of the rare dramas that makes historical characters actually live on stage. A complex, gripping examination of morality and politics that was, alas, largely dismissed by the critics. |
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THE EXONERATED
Stars like Richard Dreyfuss, Marlo Thomas and Mia Farrow are rotating in and out of this 90-minute docu-play, fashioned out of interviews with real death-row inmates who were exonerated. Righteous, harrowing theater. |
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FLOWER DRUM SONG
Playwright David Henry Hwang reworked the problem child in the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon and made its story of Asian-Americans in San Francisco palatable to a modern audience. Better than that, Robert Longbottom's slick, clever production made it look like a neglected classic. |
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AMOUR
What makes the French different? Look no further than Michel Legrand's charming little musical about a boring office worker whose life is changed when he finds he can walk through walls. The waiflike thing was a hit in Paris, a flop in New York. The French were right. |
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THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK
This early Arthur Miller play, about a fellow who finds nothing but success while everyone else around him goes down the tubes, returned to Broadway in a fine revival, starring Chris O'Donnell, showcasing a young playwright's already mature view of the human comedy shot through with pathos. |
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HAIRSPRAY
Ignore the over-the-top reviews, and you probably won't be disappointed by this cheery Broadway musical based on John Waters' film send-up of Bandstand-era Baltimore, especially the bright tunes by Marc Shaiman and the zippy direction by Jack O'Brien. |
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MOBY DICK
The White Whale on stage? Actually, no, but writer-director Eric Simonson managed to get an awful lot of Melville's towering novel into his brawny, theatrically inventive adaptation, produced at the adventurous Milwaukee Repertory Theater. |
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FAR AWAY
Caryl Churchill's apocalyptic fable about a future where animals make war, hatmaking is big and everyone's afraid, is a slight, Pinteresque fragment. But the off-Broadway production (imported from London) is hauntingly directed by Stephen Daldry, and Churchill has a voice like no other's. |
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DEF POETRY JAM
Even people who run away from rap will find something to like in the nine energetic young performers on Broadway who deliver their hip-hop verses on everything from bad relationships to Krispy Kreme donuts. |
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