Index of New York & Environs Theatre Reviews

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(Note: Reviews of most current productions should appear in the AISLE SAY index no more than two weeks after their official opening dates. Barring any seasonal stretch of industry inactivity, and the occasional 'zine hiatus, the New York index receives additions and updates on a bi-weekly basis. Please also note: The majority of AISLE SAY's theatre reviews tend to be written in the wake of opening week performances. So, unless specifically indicated, transfer to another theatre, cast replacements, and the quality with which a long-running show is being maintained, will not necessarily be reflected.)

  • Slings and Arrows, Season One (A Review of the TV Series)
  • Slings and Arrows, Season Two (A Review of the TV Series)
  • Slings and Arrows, Season Three (A Review of the TV Series)
  • The Return of WEIRD ROMANCE
  • Sherry! The World Premiere Cast Recording
  • Theatre on Video (BroadwayArchive.com & Moon Over Broadway)
  • Can You Ever Know...?: a rumination

    • Broadway

  • A Chorus Line
  • Accent on Youth
  • The Addams Family
  • After Miss Julie
  • All About Me
  • All My Sons
  • The American Plan
  • American Idiot
  • August: Osage County
  • August: Osage County (Phylicia Rashad)
  • Avenue Q
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • A Behanding in Spokane
  • Billy Elliot: The Musical
  • Blithe Spirit
  • Boeing-Boeing
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • A Bronx Tale
  • Burn the Floor
  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • A Catered Affair
  • The Coast of Utopia, Parts One & Two
  • The Coast of Utopia, Part Three
  • Chicago
  • Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
  • The Color Purple
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • Come Fly Away
  • Company
  • Coram Boy
  • Cry-Baby
  • Collected Stories
  • The Country Girl
  • Cymbeline
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Curtains
  • Damn Yankees (at Encores!)
  • Desire Under the Elms
  • Deuce
  • Equus
  • Exit the King
  • The Drowsy Chaperone
  • The Drowsy Chaperone (Bob Saget & New Cast Members, 11/07)
  • Fences
  • Finian's Rainbow
  • Frost/Nixon
  • God of Carnage
  • Grease
  • Grey Gardens
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Gypsy
  • The Farnsworth Invention
  • Hair
  • Hairspray
  • Hedda Gabler
  • Hamlet (Jude Law / Donmar Warehouse Production)
  • Impressionism
  • In The Heights (The Broadway transfer)
  • In the Heights (The New Cast, 2009)
  • In the Next Room or: The Vibrator Play
  • The Homecoming
  • Irena's Vow
  • Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2008) Review by Richard Gleaves
  • Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2009) Review by David Spencer
  • Is He Dead?
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  • Legally Blonde: The Musical
  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • Les Liasons Dangereuses
  • Les Miserables
  • The Little Mermaid
  • A Little Night Music
  • Liza's at the Palace
  • Looped
  • Lovemusik
  • 110 in the Shade
  • The Lion King
  • Macbeth (Patrick Stewart)
  • Mamma Mia!
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Mary Stuart
  • Mauritius
  • Mary Poppins
  • Memphis
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Million Dollar Quartet
  • Monty Python's SPAMALOT
  • A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Next to Normal
  • 9 to 5
  • November
  • The Norman Conquests
  • Old Acquaintance
  • Oleanna
  • 110 in the Shade
  • Pal Joey
  • The Philanthropist
  • The Pirate Queen
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • Present Laughter
  • The Producers (Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick)
  • The Producers (Lewis J. Stadlen, Don Stephenson)
  • The Producers: The Film of the Musical (and its soundtrack album)
  • Promises, Promises
  • Pygmalion
  • Race (James Spader, David Allan Grier)
  • Race (Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert)
  • Radio Golf
  • Ragtime (2009)
  • reasons to be pretty
  • Red
  • Rent (Original off-Broadway review by David Spencer)
  • Rent (Broadway re-opening reviewed by Adasha Greenwood)
  • Rock 'n' Roll
  • Rock of Ages
  • The Royal Family
  • The Seafarer
  • The Seagull
  • Shrek: The Musical
  • Sondheim on Sondheim
  • The Soul of Shaolin
  • South Pacific
  • Spamalot
  • Speed-the-Plow (Jeremy Piven)
  • Speed-the-Plow (William H Macy)
  • Spring Awakening
  • The Story of My Life
  • Sunday in the Park with George
  • Superior Donuts
  • A Tale of Two Cities (a personal sidebar by David Spencer)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (full review by Adasha Greenwood)
  • Talk Radio
  • Tarzan
  • 13
  • 33 Variations
  • The 39 Steps (Spencer Review)
  • The 39 Steps (Greenwood Review)
  • Thurgood
  • Time Stands Still
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • A View from the Bridge
  • Waiting for Godot
  • West Side Story
  • White Christmas
  • Wicked
  • Wishful Drinking
  • Xanadu
  • Young Frankenstein

    Off- and selected Off-Off-Broadway

  • 2000 Years
  • The Accomplices
  • All the Wrong Reasons
  • Almost an Evening
  • Altar Boyz
  • Another Part of the Forest
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Back Back Back
  • The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (original limited engagement)
  • The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (off Broadway transfer)
  • Beyond Glory
  • Bill W. and Dr. Bob
  • The Black Monk
  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
  • A Body of Water
  • The Boys in the Band (2010 site specific revival)
  • Broke-ology
  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  • The Burnt Part Boys
  • Clay
  • Clybourne Park
  • Conversations in Tusculum
  • The Conscientious Objector
  • The Conversation
  • Crazy Mary
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Dead Man's Cell Phone
  • Dividing the Estate
  • Do Not Go Gentle
  • Don't Leave it All to Your Children
  • The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
  • The English Channel
  • Enter Laughing: The Musical
  • Equivocation
  • Extinction
  • Fair Game
  • Falling for Eve
  • The Fantasticks
  • The Fever
  • The First Breeze of Summer
  • The Four of Us
  • Frankenstein: The Musical
  • Freud's Last Session
  • Fuerzabruta
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • The Glorious Ones
  • The Goldman Project
  • The Grand Manner
  • Gray Area
  • Groundswell
  • Hair
  • Hamlet (Central Park, Summer 2008)
  • Happiness
  • A Hard Heart
  • Horizon
  • Idiot Savant
  • If You See Something Say Something
  • In the Heights (Original Off-Broadway Review)
  • Intimate Exchanges
  • The Irish Curse
  • The Joy Luck Club
  • The Kid
  • Kindness
  • Lansky
  • The Last Cargo Cult
  • The Last Word...
  • A Lifetime Burning
  • Looking for the Pony
  • Love, Loss and What I Wore
  • Lower Ninth
  • Make Me
  • Man of La Mancha (8 men, 2 guitars)
  • The Marriage of Bette and Boo
  • The Master Builder
  • The Merchant of Venice (Central Park, Pacino, 2010)
  • The Metal Children
  • Mindgame
  • The New Century
  • Next Fall
  • New Jerusalem
  • The Nibroc Trilogy
  • Night Sky
  • Nightengale
  • Occupant
  • Offices
  • Oliver Parker!
  • Opus
  • Order
  • The Orphans' Home Cycle (Parts 1 & 2)
  • Our Leading Lady
  • Our Town
  • The Overwhelming
  • Parlour Song
  • Passing Strange
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Port Authority
  • The Pride
  • Prisoner of the Crown
  • The Receptionist
  • Restoration
  • The Retributionists
  • Richard III (starring Michael Cumpsty)
  • Road Show
  • Romantic Poetry
  • Rooms
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Ruined
  • Safe Home
  • Saturn Returns
  • Scarcity
  • The Scottsboro Boys
  • The Screwtape Letters
  • Secrets of a Soccer Mom
  • See Rock City
  • Sive
  • Sleepwalk With Me
  • The Slug-Bearers of Kayrol Island
  • Some Men
  • Streamers
  • Still Life
  • Take Me Along
  • Taking Over
  • The Speed Queen
  • The Temperamentals
  • The Tempest (starring Mandy Patinkin @ CSC)
  • The Third Story
  • The Tin Pan Alley Rag
  • That Face
  • Three Mo' Tenors
  • Three Travelers
  • Tings Dey Happen
  • The Toxic Avenger
  • Trumpery
  • Twelfth Night (Delacorte in Central Park, 2009)
  • A Very Common Procedure
  • Uncle Vanya
  • Vanities: A New Musical
  • Venus in Fur
  • Viagra Falls
  • Wanda's World
  • What's That Smell?: The Music of Jacob Sterling?
  • White's Lies
  • The Winter's Tale (Central Park, 2010)
  • Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them
  • Yellow Face
  • Zero Hour
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    Environs

  • The Full Monty
  • Happy Days: The Musical
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Little House on the Prairie: The Musical
  • Lost in Yonkers
  • A Little Night Music (White Plains)
  • Master Class (Paper Mill)
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Oklahoma
  • Peter Pan
  • Disney's High School Musical
  • 1776
  • Take Flight (McCarter, Princeton NJ)

  • Gone, but not to be forgotten:

  • Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
  • And God Created Great Whales
  • Art (Original Cast: Alan Alda, Victor Garber, Alfred Molina)
  • Art (British Cast: Brian Cox, Henry Goodman, David Haig)
  • Art (3rd Cast: Judd Hirsch, Joe Morton, George Wendt)
  • Art (Current Cast: Buck Henry, Wayne Knight, George Segal)
  • Assassins
  • The Beard of Avon
  • The Belmont Avenue Social Club
  • The Big Bang
  • Brooklyn Boy
  • Cabaret
  • Cabaret (7/99 Cast)
  • Cabaret (1/02 Cast)
  • Captains Courageous
  • Chesapeake
  • A Class Act (Original off-Broadway review)
  • A Class Act (The Broadway Transfer)
  • Comic Potential
  • Contact With the Enemy
  • Deep Down
  • Different Fields
  • Dinner With Friends
  • Doubt
  • Edge
  • Fit to Be Tied
  • Floyd Collins
  • The Foreigner
  • Frank Pig Says Hello
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Nathan Lane) (Opening week review)
  • The Gathering
  • Golden Child
  • Good as New
  • Good Will
  • I Am My Own Wife
  • The Immigrant
  • The Laramie Project
  • The Last Session
  • A Lesson Before Dying
  • Lonely Planet
  • Mnemonic
  • A Night in November
  • Nine Armenians
  • Nocturne
  • Oblivion Postponed
  • Old Wicked Songs
  • Opening Doors
  • Orson's Shadow
  • Pacific Overtures
  • Paul Robeson
  • Polish Joke
  • Philemon
  • A Question of Mercy
  • Quills
  • Ragtime
  • Save It for the Stage: The Life of [Charles Nelson] Reilly
  • Rounding Third
  • See What I Wanna See
  • 1776 (with an afterword about the restored film)
  • The Skriker
  • Speaking in Tongues
  • Suburban Motel (Parts 1, 2 & 3 of Six)
  • Tabletop
  • Take Me Out
  • The Thing About Men
  • Tir Na n'Og Not to be overlooked
  • The Two and Only
  • Two Pianos, Four Hands
  • The Vagina Monologues
  • Venus in Fur
  • Via Dolorosa
  • Well
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Wit
  • With and Without

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