New York Notebook: Only a few sparks in the fall theater season

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NEW YORK — Although the power stayed on all through the topsy-turvy weather patterns of the fall, the city's theater district has found a key ingredient in the making of plays and musicals in perilously short supply this season: electricity.

Only in the guise of a crowd-drawing Aussie star and his giddy show-tune revue, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway," has there been any genuine megawatt surge on the stages of this town. A few other nights among the ones I sampled over the past few months have set off some sparks: the Kennedy Center's revival of "Follies," finishing up a run at the Marquis Theatre as an odds-on Tony nominee; Jon Robin Baitz's smashingly composed political family dust-up, "Other Desert Cities," at the Booth; actors Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, cavorting ably and mischievously in the Manhattan Theatre Club's staging of David Ives's theater game "Venus in Fur" (a version of which was produced at Studio Theatre last spring).

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Peter Whoriskey 27 Dec, 2011

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