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Two plays by Mfoniso Udofia, part of a cycle about the members of a Nigerian family, track their migration to the United States.
What makes the insight fresh in Edward Einhorn's play is the absurdist language (and Dada style) in which it's told.
Encores! makes a marvelous if last-ditch case for the cult musical based on "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey."
In numerous subplots set against a vicious civil war, MartÃn Zimmerman's play explores the contagion of culpability.
Our new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, offers his take on Ms. Wiest's work in this Beckett revival. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
Our new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, makes his reviewing debut with this Sondheim musical. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
Offerings include a revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Venus," at the Signature Theater, and Robert Schenkkan's "Building the Wall," at New World Stages.
In order to explain what's good about Bandstand, a serious-minded original musical opening on Broadway tonight, it helps to know what's bad about some of its predecessors on the Boulevard of…
When it debuted in 1990, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation played like a satire of liberal values after the hugely disruptive confusions of a decade of Reaganism. The married couple at …
Many a Broadway musical adaptation seems like an Ikea product you're supposed to admire just because someone was able to assemble it. Anastasia, opening tonight at the Broadhurst, is that ki…
Though often described as confections, musical comedies have no known recipe. If they did, a show like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened on Broadway tonight, ought to have been…
Pre-production publicity for Annie Baker's The Antipodes, which opens tonight at the Signature, revealed only that it is "a play about people telling stories about telling stories." That tur…
The show curtain now in use at the Shubert Theatre, where the ecstatic revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler opens tonight, may be the reddest red-red I've ever seen. The beaded gow…
Lillian Hellman's breakneck melodrama The Little Foxes was written in 1939 on the Depression plan. It has one set, no more characters than it can use, and just enough plot to make it go. Yet…
One of the reasons Shakespeare's history plays are the greatest examples of their genre is that he took care to write about events no one could possibly remember. (They were set eons before …
Diplomacy is a lovely word, suggesting the idea that with tact and perseverance humans can accommodate one another. Yeah, sure. If that seems unlikely, so does the idea that diplomacy could …
The last half-hour or so of War Paint, the beguiling but frustrating new musical about beauty legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, is just about everything you could want from a Br…
Noël Coward described his 1939 romp Present Laughter as "a series of semiautobiographical pyrotechnics" " merely "semi," presumably, because the main character, Garry Essendine, though …
To my knowledge, Zeno's paradox has never been recruited as a plot point and thematic touchstone in a Broadway musical before Amélie, the wistful new show starring Phillipa Soo that o…
Farce is not an acquired taste; even babies laugh at pratfalls. Rather, farce is the taste you fail to grow out of " and thank God, because sometimes only the stupidest fun will do. If this …
There's something about our time that doesn't favor expressionism, especially in mainstream theater. The distortion of perspective and the inflation of emotional state that we may enjoy in p…
When a play's title is Latin History for Morons, you may not want to be one of the title characters. Nevertheless, that's what you are in John Leguizamo's new stand-up-act-posing-as-a-theate…
A spring theater preview mostly means a spring Broadway preview, since April is the month in which many of the year's biggest-ticket shows rush the end zone. (To be eligible for this season'…
You probably already know whether you like Miss Saigon, the pop-opera retread of Madama Butterfly set against the collapse of the American experiment in Vietnam. If you do like it, by all me…
Don't let the lovely silvery MGM draperies fool you, nor the silky gorgeousness of the orchestrations: The New Yorkers, the latest Encores! reclamation project, is a clumsy, instructive, dis…
