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New York Times

Whips and Scorns of Time, Stinging All They Touch
As played by Michael Stuhlbarg, Hamlet is unavoidably watchable and on occasion quite entertaining, but never for an instant moving.

A Two-Man, One-Woman Crime Wave
Ron Fitzgerald’s play feels familiar, a “Bonnie and Clyde” plus one.

Dominance Struggles That Don’t Include Men
This lopsided program of two one-acts starts with a fizzle and ends with a bang.

A Broadway Debut for Neil LaBute
Neil LaBut’es “Reasons to Be Pretty” will begin previews on Feb. 13 at a Broadway theater to be named.

New York Daily News

Not-so-great Dane for 'Hamlet'
Can a show be both fevered and flat? Yes. That's clear in the Public Theater's high-strung but stubbornly uninvolving "Hamlet" in Central Park, writes Joe Dziemianowicz.

Newsday

Review: Public Theater's 'Hamlet' in Central Park
Oskar Eustis is doing a spectacular job as the head of the Public Theater. In the three years since he succeeded George C. Wolfe in the cauldron created in 1954 by Joseph Papp, the multiple theaters have been bursting with a breadth of interests, passions and intelligence.

New York Post

Sorry, Tony, I'm Traveling
Where was Steve? Broadway was a little surprised that Stephen Sondheim didn't show up Sunday night to claim his Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. Setting aside the fact that the award is a nice capper to ...

Hamlet and cheese
The most interesting Hamlets convey an air of mystery, of ambiguity, that keeps us guessing: Just how crazy is he? Sadly, there's no......

New York Sun

A 'Hamlet' With Bells, Whistles & Puppets

Village Voice

Elyse Singer and Neil LaBute Take On Prettiness by Alexis Soloski

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival Explores the Celluloid Boundary by Garrett Eisler

Vincent River: No Kitchen, No Sink by John Beer

Too Much What-If in Series C by Rob Kendt

NY1

Review: "Body Awareness"

Hartford Courant

'Hamlet' An Odd, Touching Prince

Star-Ledger

A worthy 'Hamlet'? Not to be
A terribly significant concept, a dreary leading man and a performance that lasts way over three hours reduces an outdoor staging of "Hamlet" to a butt- numbing experience.

Arts notes
New Playwrights season - Playwrights Theatre will take its audiences in Madison to three distinctly different North American locales during the 2008-2009 season.

Bergen Record

Review: 'Hamlet'
It’s hard to figure the “why” of the “Hamlet” that opened Tuesday night at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

Princeton Packet

Review: ‘Wonder of the World’
When you mention the word “farce” in the theater, it usually brings to mind a set with lots of doors which you know will be opened quickly and slammed frequently. It might also suggest girls in scanty attire, and perhaps the lads as well.

Review: 'Arcadia'
Almost as soon as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia hit the stage — 1993 in London, then two years later on Broadway — the critics agreed to disagree. About half considered the work Stoppard’s finest, but the other half insisted that the playwright was trying to show off his intellect at the expense of characterization and motivation.