Kevin Kline has chosen a subdued approach to his playing of Cyrano De Bergerac. The bigness is all in the nose, not in the fierce, forceful arc of his performance.

Everyone has a story to tell- and told well, we'll take the time to listen to it. Unfortunately, Steve Solomon's My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy doesn't pass the test. We keep waiting for the jokes to lead to something bigger. But they're just jokes.

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Reality takes a beating in Sarah Treems A Feminine Ending. Her script is so self-congratulatory, it ought to be highlighted.

Point a finger at Jack Klugman and Paul Dooley for making this revival of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys a laugh riot. The old shtick still works.

Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale is a heartfelt remembrance of a past life. So what if it verges on the sentimental, it's still the real thing.

Picture a subway at rush hour, sardine-packed with people and you have a rough approximation of what it feels like to be in the audience at Fuerzabruta. But the show dazzles and the cast is athletic and superb

With The Overwhelming, J. T. Rogers has written a political thriller, all too real about Rwanda, circa 1994. Can some horrors be so incomprehensible as to defy human understanding? Sadly, the answer seems to be yes.

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Tony Martin graced the stage at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency and gave a performance ( two, really), that younger performers could only envy. Not bad for a 95-year old.

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Doris Day may respectfully decline to appear in public. But the 83-year old legend has a wonderful substitute in the celebrated cabaret star Mary Cleere Haran. She's paying homage at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency

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The Ritz may be dated, The Ritz may be old news, but The Ritz is still very funny.