But some observers point to the comparative lifelessness of current staging as evidence that someone should be minding the theatrical side of the fence.

One long act, with some of the current staging's numbers trimmed or omitted, might have made an already exuberant ballet even livelier.

Susan Kikuchi, Yuriko's daughter, has superbly directed the young women from the Graham school in the current staging.

In the current staging by Billie Allen, noise is substituted for momentum, commotion for comedy.

Fabrizio Melano's current staging looks distracted, as if stagecraft had been more or less abandoned to the whims of its principals.

In two current stagings of Mozart operas the directors were allowed, it would seem, to indulge themselves.

Compared to the company's 1979, production, the current staging looks robbed of poetry, but also of provincialism.

The theater's current staging does have its own variations, one of which is amusing.

But there are bigger problems with the current staging.

In the current staging of "Streetcar," their sexual encounter has an ambiguity more evocative of the 80's than the 40's or 50's.