A Doll's House at BAM

By Henrik Ibsen
English language version by Simon Stephens
Young Vic
Directed by Carrie Cracknell

Hattie Morahan is incandescent in this faithful remounting of the classic. Ian MacNeil's revolving set is funny, smart and terrifying. 

Paul Taylor Dance Company: Diamond Anniversary

Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times

 A strange evening of somehow very American-feeling dance. Incredibly hunky, muscled-out dancers performing routines of extraordinary athleticism without even a whiff of sex in evidence. I think that must be very hard to do... it was like watching action figures come to life. Amazing.

Forbidden Broadway: Comes Out Swinging!

The inimitable Katie Vida needed a little cheering up. Let me say simply that I will never, ever, look at Mandy Patinkin the same way again.

What Is A Photograph? at the ICP

The Servant, dir Joseph Losey, at MoMA

Harold Pinter's 1963 adaptation of Robin Maugham's 1948 novella. Sex, friendship, desire, loneliness, apparent incest, good clothes, humilitation, domestic service, broken dreams and cocktails. What's not to love?