Two hundred and fifty years of American labor history makes clear the indispensability of bold and rapid adaptation to constantly changing conditions.

George Tabori's bold adaptation of the original text explicitly evokes Shakespearean verse, blank and rhymed, and neatly sets off the work's many references to tragedies from "Hamlet" to "Julius Caesar."

(Brantley) 'SPRING AWAKENING' Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's bold adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play is the freshest and most exciting new musical Broadway has seen in some time.