Broken Glass This well-meaning drama about a Jewish woman overcome by hysterical paralysis at the beginning of World War II is Arthur Miller's first Broadway outing in 22 years. It was hardly worth waiting for. But while Miller's play tries to decide what to say, Amy Irving, in the leading role, knows just what she's doing. B-
Carousel A thoughtful and highly hyped revival of a corny show that hasn't aged very well — with Rodgers and Hammerstein's beautiful score mostly rendered by performers who can't sing very well. Reminds one of a very fine episode of Hee Haw. B-
Damn Yankees This 1955 musical — about a middle-aged baseball fan who sells out to Satan for another swing at youth — has been knowingly updated to include jokes about J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson (billed as two of history's great lovers) and Joe McCarthy. Sexy, good clean fun, with pounds of cartwheeling beefcake and a slinky Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers) as Lola, the devil's concubine. B
Grease! Starring the vocally challenged Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo, Rydell High's lovable slut. There are worse things she could do, but not many. Director Jeff Calhoun (with some guidance from Tommy Tune) frames this simple, pretty show in an ugly, clumsy, and charmless high-school-caliber production. Rent the movie instead. D
Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect Mason's one-man show lives up to its title — and that's the nicest thing you can say about it. This borscht belt Andrew Dice Clay talks loudly and carries a mean-spirited shtick. C-
Laughter on the 23rd Floor Nathan Lane is simply great. Neil Simon's fictionalized account of his youth spent writing for Sid Caesar's 1950s TV show is simply grating. C+
Medea The most thrilling event on Broadway. Plotting to butcher her children as vengeance against her wayward husband, Diana Rigg (The Avengers) makes Zeus' ears ring. Director Jonathan Kent streamlines Euripides' horror story into a lightning-quick 90 minutes, and brings the great set of rusted metal walls crashing down. Bring your ear plugs, but try not to miss one overwrought word. A
Passion Stephen Sondheim turns Ettore Scola's over-the-top, oddball 1981 film Passione d'Amore — about an ugly woman's powerfully obsessive love for a handsome young soldier — into an over-the-top, oddball, monochromatic yet strangely affecting musical. B
Sally Marr...and Her Escorts Joan Rivers can talk and talk and talk. If only the play, which she cowrote, were half as interesting as Sally Marr, the gutsy mother of Lenny Bruce. We like Joan, but she fails to make us care much for Sally. C-
Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992 Poetry. Actress Anna Deavere Smith inhabits an endless supply of alternately amusing, sad, infuriating, and always very real characters shell-shocked by the Rodney King riots. The text is taken from Smith's own interviews with real-life subjects. A
