New reviews: Bride and The Four of Us

Have you checked out TONY's snazzy new theater web page? Layout is much better. Also, I control the content, pictures, placement, etc, which appeals to my megalomaniacal side. (Well, more than a side, more like 87% of me.) Anyhoo, this week I reviewed puppeteer Kevin Augustine's terrific new show, Bride. It's Terry Gilliam-meets-Brothers-Quay-and-goes-t0-theological-school. A bizarre and beautiful puppet fable about polytheism, monotheism, fathers, sons, dismembered mothers, the lot. Check it out. Also: fiendishly talented 30-year-old playwright Itamar Moses' frenemy-comedy-drama-metatheatrical romp The Four of Us. Jaime already enthused over it. Both of these are well worth your time. I had reservations about Moses' first NYC effort, the too-clever-by-half Bach at Leipzig, but the guy has got ideas and brilliance to spare.