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The groundbreaking 1990 musical humanizes the troubled souls who try to change history with a gun.
Playwright Dominique Morriseau' latest " and perhaps strongest work " "Pipeline," now being given an exemplary production at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre...
Meghan Kennedy's "Napoli, Brooklyn" is now premiering at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre under Gordon Edelstein's direction.
The timely terror of living in a fascist state " one where the government makes all the rules and controls all your thoughts " is likely the raison d'etre that the recent British dramatizati…
How fulfilled you will feel at the end of Abe Koogler's 90-minute drama, "Fulfillment Center," is likely a matter of pre-show expectations.
The Tony Awards were a less than glittering night for Broadway.
It could be easy enough to bury Oskar Eustis' Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar," now at the Delacorte Theatre, for being just a bit too heavy-handed.
To play a "mad scene" well, as numerous actresses who have been tasked with portraying Ophelia or Lady Macbeth have done, is one thing. To spend an entire 90 minutes on stage portraying a wo…
Since first-time writers are usually advised to tackle subjects they know, it's less-than-shocking that former "Friends" star Matthew Perry's playwriting debut, "The End of Longing," is choc…
Women have making tough decisions about the price of independence, financial and otherwise, for a couple of centuries, and this timeless topic is explored anew in Gina Gionfriddo's "Can You …
Everything revolves around Julie, both literally and figuratively, in Hamish Linklater's ambitious and moving new play, "The Whirligig," now being given a top-notch production by director Sc…
The Signature Theatre Company's exploration and re-examination of the career of Suzan-Lori Parks continues with director Lear deBssonet's striking revival of "Venus, which is dominated by a …
To paraphrase an old show-biz saying, the sequel is rarely the equal. So anyone expecting Lucas Hnath's "A Doll's House, Part 2," now at the Golden Theatre, to have the psychological power a…
Despite its two-dimensional characters, this is an old-fashioned musical with crowd-pleasing numbers.
What young girl (or grown woman) hasn't dreamt that she's actually royalty? That fantasy is one reason the story of Anastasia Romanov " the daughter of the last Russian tsar, and who may or …
Bette Midler delivers an all-stops-out, look-at-me performance for the ages.
In any theatrical season, a revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 family drama, "The Little Foxes," would be welcome. Hellman's play is a remarkably well-structured work, full of complex (if pri…
Paula Vogel's harrowing new work, "Indecent," is now at the Cort Theater. Its examinations of censorship, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are both brilliant and painfully timely...
Oslo is a dazzling 14-karat gold production, sets the bar for 2017.
The characters are two-dimensional, but the singing is through the roof.
Tony-nominated playwright Martin Sherman pulls off as many sleight of hands in 100 minutes as the most experienced magician in his affecting new play, "Gently Down the Stream," now at the Pu…
Phillipa Soo steals the show in Amelie.
Loud. Action-packed. Crude. No, I haven't switched careers and begun reviewing Marvel movies; these same adjectives apply (unfortunately) to Laurence Connor's bombastic revival of the 1990s …
A play that occasionally feels as unruly as its title, Sarah Ruhl's "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage" is both a very funny and decidedly rueful examination about the challenges of long-ter…
Danny DeVito and Mark Ruffalo star in Arthur Miller’s complex 1968 drama.
