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Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night"
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
No wonder Il Divo's Broadway debut is subtitled "A Musical Affair": That refers less to their concert of show-stoppers than to the steamy relationship between the hunky quartet and their...
A friendly piece of advice: If you're ever invited to play poker with Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio . . . pass. In the hands of these sleight-of-hand magicians, a sim…
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight
(Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
Wallace Shawn's sexually charged, dystopian drama concerns a doctor who solves the world's hunger problem by inventing a substance enabling animals to eat their own kind.read more
Daniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
Fireworks figure prominently in "Luce," about parents who realize that the child they adopted from Africa a decade ago isn't what he seems. Sadly, JC Lee's new play fizzles out...
The sounds of an Irish jig fill the theater before the action starts " our first tip-off that this Culture Project revival isn't going to be your typical "Seagull." And it's...
Its title may be poetic " thank Robert Frost " but "And Miles To Go" begins with a profane tirade. From a NYC teacher, no less. After 40 years at...
Theater Review: Honeymoon in Vegas, 3 stars, Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ; 973-376-4343. Through Oct. 27. Running time: 150 minutes, one intermission.
The fun begin…
There’s no flying and not a treacly song to be heard in this Aussie take on J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan." Here at the New Victory Theater, the title character isn't played by a woman in g…
Dee Bridgewater plays the late, great Billie Holiday in this combined bio-musical/concert.read more
A lot of ground is covered, to increasingly diminishing effect, in "Bike America," Mike Lew's play about a young woman's search for identity on a cross-country bike trip. Although it makes a…
Anne Washburn's anarchic dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic future imagines the survivors reenacting a classic episode of "The Simpsons."read more
Playwright Horton Foote's Southern-drenched melodrama receives a posthumous, world premiere production.read more
Will Power's drama concerns the unlikely real-life friendship between Muhammad Ali and the controversial screen star Stepin Fechit.read more
The biggest name in new plays this season will be in the program, not on the stage.
It's John Grisham, whose legal thrillers and other works have sold a whopping 275 million copies worldwid…
The Savannah tourist board won't be endorsing "The Cheaters Club" anytime soon. Derek Ahonen's supernatural dark comedy portrays Georgia's famously haunted city as a hotbed of sin " but for …
'i'm sick to death of cleverness," exclaims a character in the cutely titled "The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway." But while the line comes from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being …
This new Broadway musical tells the real-life story of Shlomo Carlebach, the "Rock Star Rabbi."read more
Forty years after his death, Lyndon Johnson is suddenly a hot topic for the stage. "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston plays the late president in the bio-drama "All the Way," opening next mo…
Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" fame collaborate on this new musical based on the early Shakespeare comedy.read more
Zachary Levi of TV's "Chuck" and Krysta Rodriguez star in this Broadway romantic musical comedy.read more
A man and woman meet on a blind date. She's a struggling freelance writer, he's a struggling actor. Gradually " over potent cocktails and "Asian soul food" oddities like cornbread miso soup …
This wacky theatrical version of Kathryn Bigelow's cult film features its trademark silly dialogue and over-the-top action.read more
