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

Margaret Cho is never one to do things half-way. Her new show, The Sensuous Woman is uproariously funny-guaranteed to offend all those who need to be offended. 'Nuff said.

This is not your father's Misanthrope nor even yours, unless you have a strong grounding in the Moliere classic. If you do, you'll appreciate what director Ivo Van Hove's provocative style has done with the classic.

Who knew stamp collecting could be so exciting? Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius finds several people extremely interested in possessing some stamps from a faraway place

25 years ago, when A.R. Gurney wrote The Dining Room, the customs he portrayed were bordering on quaint. Today, those customs are positively antiquated.

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25 years on, Gerard Alessandrini 's Forbidden Broadway-this version called Rude Awakening- is still popping the bubbles of musicals on the Great White Way. If this incarnation is somewhat tamer, put the blame (for the most part), on the musicals being skewered

Kate Foydor's 100 Saints You Should Know is a well-made, but ultimately,forgettable, drama. That said, there is a moment of theater, that is truly cathartic.

Playwright Horton Foote is amazing: Here he is is 92-years young and instead of worrying about his own affairs of (e)state, he's conjured up Dividing the Estate, a richly detailed and absorbing work, smack dab about what its title implies.

The Atlantic Theatre Company has an excellent track record for coming up with entertaining plays. But, not so this time, with Scarcity. The show appears to exist solely to shock (us)...

Leo Tolstoy's most acclaimed work, The Power of Darkness, comes across more overwrought than transporting, in this Mint Theater production. Relentless could be its mantra