The man in black turns sunshine yellow in 'Ring of Fire,' the show that strings songs associated with Johnny Cash into an artificially sweetened candy necklace.

Everyone and everything winds up lost in this ... adaptation of Tolkien 's cult-inspiring trilogy of fantasy novels. That includes plot, character and the patience of most ordinary theatergoers.

Con's climactic metamorphosis into the man behind the aristocrat's pose is embodied with shattering, scary violence and precision.

The humor in the Odd Couple is rooted in watching ordinary guys equipped with an extraordinary arsenal of zingers, ... you wonder where the songs are.

You will gasp again and again at the inventive visual majesty.

The Invention of Love,