Last Friday, we gushed all over the Absurd Reality Theatre's production of Peter Morris's , which starts the second week of its awkwardly scheduled run tonight at the Theatre off Jackson (409 Seventh Ave., 8 p.m., tix $15, $10 student). And we weren't the only ones--the reviews are in and A.R.T.'s play has pretty much swept the press. more ›

By the time actor Adam Standley's character starts explaining how he made Abu Ghraib-themed amateur porn, you realize that a play that (or is it?) Abu Ghraib are projected. But by that point, the form has come to fit the function, and the genius of this play has won you over. more ›

Eclectic Theatre Co.'s production of Henrik Ibsen's (@ Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave., Thurs.-Sun. until Dec. 20; tickets $20) is at best a mixed affair, not terrible but deeply flawed, and depressingly so since it fails in exactly the ways you expect a small theatre to succeed. Without money for big sets, fancy digs, and all that stuff, small "fringe" theatre companies are supposed to be about the acting and the story, but in this case the adaptation of a great play makes it just a bit too melodramatic, and the acting just isn't what it should be. more ›