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Loosely adapted from a short-lived television series, this musical comedy about the making of a musical is full of showstopping songs and powered by a...
Culkin leads a cast that includes Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean and Bill Burr in this latest Broadway revival of David Mamet's classic tale of...
Snook gives a master class, playing 26 characters in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel that's hideously apt for our age of Instagram filters and...
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn't solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production.
Imported from London, this musical about a WWII counterintelligence operation is totally lovable and expertly zany.
Playwright Abe Koogler's portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that's a tasting menu of acting...
The coming season promises opera that draws on everything from Herman Melville to jazz and blues, and dance that flows from breaking to ballet.
Broadway has George Clooney and two different shows based on TV series. Downtown has space travel and T.S. Eliot. Brooklyn has Chekhov and an ant...
This two-hander about estranged half-brothers with a dying mother is painfully gorgeous.
Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.
Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?
The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an...
This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and...
Audra McDonald in Gypsy Julieta Cervantes At the end of, shall we say, a testing year, it seems perverse to cheer for a malignant narcissist, a...
Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz in Eureka Day Jeremy Daniel Manhattan Theatre Club’s new dramedy...
Shakespeare never lacks for juicy insults, and King Lear is especially thick with verbal abuse. The unhinged title monarch viciously curses his...
I have little appetite to spend the next four years gloomily referencing current events in my reviews, so let’s get this out of the way. It was a...
How sadly apt, to attend In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot the day after Jeff Bezos ordered The Washington Post to refrain from endorsing a...
Last time I reviewed a Shakespeare play staged by the daring and gifted Sam Gold, I led with a cheeky question about bowls of soup slurped by the...
The latest revival of Sunset Boulevard —glossily stark and aggressively meta—puts several shades of lipstick on a pig. “Shades” being black, white,...
Shameful confession: It took Laura Donnelly’s coolly stunning entrance in The Hills of California to finally acquaint me with the lyrics to “Gimme...
When I was a callow theater kid, I hated musicals: it was a bastard genre, inferior to the classics and modern drama. To be honest, I didn’t know...
Over the years audiences have seen many sides of magnetic powerhouse Kara Young. There was Troubled Teen Kara in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to...
A thought experiment: From these cherry-picked events by the city’s best opera and dance companies, choose two—one from each category—for a double...
Seasons don’t have themes. Scores of shows will open this fall from Broadway to Off-Off, but no shadowy organization meets to decree a season...
You may not believe it, but theater critics actually work . It’s not all plopping into an aisle seat, yawning, and scribbling in the dark. Perhaps...
Received wisdom says a play on Broadway will only turn a profit with a star (or two). Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello ? Get you...