Index of New York & Environs Theatre Reviews

Copyright ©2012 by TheatreNet Enterprises

(Note: Reviews of most current productions should appear in the AISLE SAY index no more than three 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.)

2012-2013 Season

Broadway

Off and Select Off-Off Broadway

Environs


2011-2012 Season

Broadway

Off and Select Off-Off Broadway

Environs

Archive of Previous Seasons (Incomplete)

Broadway

  • A Chorus Line
  • A Life in the Theatre
  • Accent on Youth
  • The Addams Family
  • After Miss Julie
  • All About Me
  • All My Sons
  • The American Plan
  • American Idiot
  • Anything Goes
  • Arcadia
  • August: Osage County
  • August: Osage County (Phylicia Rashad)
  • Avenue Q
  • Baby It's You
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • A Behanding in Spokane
  • Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
  • Billy Elliot: The Musical
  • Blithe Spirit
  • Boeing-Boeing
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Brief Encounter
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • Born Yesterday
  • A Bronx Tale
  • Burn the Floor
  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • A Catered Affair
  • The Coast of Utopia, Parts One & Two
  • The Coast of Utopia, Part Three
  • Chicago
  • Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
  • Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
  • 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
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Equus
  • Exit the King
  • The Drowsy Chaperone
  • The Drowsy Chaperone (Bob Saget & New Cast Members, 11/07)
  • Elf: The Musical
  • Fences
  • Finian's Rainbow
  • A Free Man Of Color
  • Frost/Nixon
  • God of Carnage
  • Good People
  • Grease
  • Grey Gardens
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Gypsy
  • The Farnsworth Invention
  • Hair
  • Hairspray
  • Hedda Gabler
  • Hamlet (Jude Law / Donmar Warehouse Production)
  • The House of Blue Leaves
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • 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
  • Jerusalem
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  • La Bête
  • La Cage Aux Folles (Douglas Hodge, Kelsey Grammar)
  • La Cage Aux Folles (Harvey Fierstein, Christopher Sieber)
  • Legally Blonde: The Musical
  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • Lombardi
  • 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 Merchant of Venice (Broadway Transfer, Pacino, 2010)
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Million Dollar Quartet
  • Monty Python's SPAMALOT
  • A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • The Motherfucker With the Hat
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession
  • Next to Normal
  • 9 to 5
  • November
  • The Normal Heart
  • The Norman Conquests
  • Old Acquaintance
  • Oleanna
  • 110 in the Shade
  • Pal Joey
  • The Pee-Wee Herman Show
  • The Philanthropist
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Pitman Painters
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • Present Laughter
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • 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)
  • Rain
  • 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
  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  • The Scottsboro Boys (Broadway transfer)
  • The Seafarer
  • The Seagull
  • Shrek: The Musical
  • Sister Act
  • 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)
  • That Championship Season
  • Thurgood
  • Time Stands Still (original limited engagement)
  • Time Stands Still (open ended re-mounting)
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • A View from the Bridge
  • Waiting for Godot
  • War Horse
  • West Side Story
  • White Christmas
  • Wicked
  • Wishful Drinking
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Wonderland
  • Xanadu
  • Young Frankenstein

    Off- and selected Off-Off-Broadway

  • 2000 Years
  • The Accomplices
  • All the Wrong Reasons
  • Almost an Evening
  • Altar Boyz
  • Angels in America
  • Another Part of the Forest
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey
  • Back Back Back
  • Banished Children of Eve
  • The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (original limited engagement)
  • The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (off Broadway transfer)
  • Beyond Glory
  • Bill W. and Dr. Bob
  • The Black Monk
  • Black Tie
  • Blood from a Stone
  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
  • A Body of Water
  • The Boys in the Band (2010 site specific revival)
  • The Break of Noon
  • Broke-ology
  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  • The Burnt Part Boys
  • Cactus Flower
  • Capsule 33
  • Clay
  • Clybourne Park
  • Compulsion
  • 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
  • Devil Boys from Beyond
  • Dividing the Estate
  • The Divine Sister
  • 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
  • The Great Game: Afghanistan
  • 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)
  • The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
  • 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
  • Me, Myself and I
  • The Memorandum
  • The Merchant of Venice (Central Park, Pacino, 2010)
  • The Metal Children
  • The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
  • Mindgame
  • Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage
  • Mistakes Were Made
  • 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)
  • Other Desert Cities
  • The Other Place
  • Our Leading Lady
  • Our Town
  • The Overwhelming
  • Parlour Song
  • Passing Strange
  • Peter and the Starcatcher
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Play Dead
  • 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
  • A Small Fire
  • Some Men
  • St. Nicholas
  • Streamers
  • Still Life
  • Take Me Along
  • Taking Over
  • The Speed Queen
  • The Temperamentals
  • The Tempest (starring Mandy Patinkin @ CSC)
  • The Third Story
  • Three Men on a Horse
  • The Time Machine
  • The Tin Pan Alley Rag
  • That Face
  • Three Mo' Tenors
  • Three Pianos
  • The Three Sisters
  • Three Travelers
  • Through the Night
  • 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?
  • The Whipping Man
  • 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

  • Curtains (Paper Mill)
  • The Full Monty
  • Hairspray (Paper Mill)
  • Happy Days: The Musical
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Les Miserables (25th Anniversary Tour)
  • 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)
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

  • 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

    • Archive of Special Features


  • 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

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