Archduke by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Darko Tresnjak, Laura Pels Theatre. L to R: Patrick Page, Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet, Jake Berne, Kristine Nielsen. Photo: Joan Marcus. The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke —just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre—is that the young men who sparked World War I by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand were actually starving, terminally ill consumptives bribed and duped into becoming suicidal terrorists. The

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, directed by Garry Hynes. A Druid Theatre production at the Irish Arts Center. Set by Francis O'Connor. Photo: Ros Kavanagh. With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot   sucking up so much oxygen on Broadway, it’s a delight and relief to see Samuel Beckett produced at the Irish Arts Center by gifted and steely artists with proven talent at plumbing his work. The indomitable Garry Hynes, a Tony-winner and leader of Galway’s Druid

Lacrima , written and directed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen. Set design by Alice Duchange. Photo : Jean-Louis Fernandez I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a major new work by the only woman with serious clout in the French theater (she is artistic director of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg). This much-acclaimed artist of Vietnamese, North African and French heritage wrote and directed Lacrima , a three-hour, inter