Aristophanes

The Theatrical Universe Crowds Webster Hall for the 58th Annual Obie Awards

Free Will Astrology: March 14-20, 2012

Lysistrata Jones Is Greece, The Musical

A new Broadway show gives Aristophanes some hoop dreams

Lysistrata Jones--Blue Balls and Basketballs

Aristophanes hits the court in the Transport Group's new musical adaptation

HOOP DREAMS

A production of Lysistrata Jones

Go Back to Where You Are's Double Diva Diversion

In David Greenspan's new play, The Seagull meets metaphysics

Michael Feingold Bemoans "Village Idiocies"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 30, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 39 Village idiocies By Michael Feingold The triple bill at the Playbox Theatre, which I saw on a dank Sunday afternoon last week, reminds me that Eric Bentley used to say, when he was reviewing, that t ... More >>

What Does Barbie Have to Do With Playboy's Lesbian Spreads?

And a slice of wry from Douglas Carter Beane about Mr. and Mrs. Fitch.

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

Curious Frog stages Plutus

Interview: Woody Allen on Whatever Works, The Meaning of Life (or Lack Thereof), and the Allure of Younger Women

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works -- his 40th for those keeping count -- signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one. For starters, it is his first film to shoot on location in New York since Melinda and Melinda in 2004, interrupting a half-decade European vacation during which ... More >>

A Week in the Slow Lane

Nothing important to review? Try reviewing the rarity of that.

Unhinged, Unexpected Old Comedy sends America to Hell

Top Girls, meanwhile, channels pure acting power

Saturday 5.10

WANTED: A POET

A look at our own troubled times via Aristophanes

Spring Theater Preview: The Sound and the Fury, An Idiot's Tale

ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner

Mything Persons

Target Margin makes ancient Greek texts lively; Sarah Ruhl gives Eurydice the death blow

Vivid and Zesty: Old-School Feminist Emancipation

Hip Hoplites

Remixing Aeschylus, The Seven spills classic tragedy onto today's mean streets.

Starting Over?

If the new turns out to be just like the old, you'd better just stay where you are

Classics at Generation Gap

Downtown theater artists bend old plays to new purposes

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Al Carmines (1936–2005)

The Plot Thins

English majors! Christopher Booker's new study just made your life much easier—maybe

Books

Our 27 favorite books of the year

Grεεk Lovε

More timely than ever, Athenian classics storm New York stages

Self-Referential Breillat in a Midwinter Night's Sex Comedy

No Peace, No Sex

Lydia Koniordou lends Greek cred to classic anti-war farce

Faust Things First

Bilingual, time-jumping, and polycultural, John Jesurun scrambles Goethe's mythic egghead

Dueling Swamp Things Splash Around the Plaza at Lincoln Center

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The Illusion Fields

A lot of skill and talent has gone into The Frogs, but somehow there's no creative pooling

Tattoo You

Braut fishing in Japan: Takahashi unfair to Aristophanes!

Theater

DUMBO Bar Bucks Trends; Baudrillard, Aristophanes Approve

Aristophanes vs. Rumsfeld

THAW and the Lysistrata Project's Anti-War Fare

Unseasonable Reflections

Something Was Missing in the Theater This Year—Did Anybody Notice?

Waiting for Lefties

But Unseriously . . .

The Musical’s a Joke Again—But Is It a Good Joke?

After Night Falls

The Revival of Reinaldo Arenas

Home to Roost

Pro & Con Artists

Men Without Women

Solomon Wins Nathan Award

Sex Shirkers

Breath Trip

Had enough safe sex? Try safe psychedelia.