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Whether this show will succeed as well in the heart of the Theatre District is anyone’s guess, but it will roughly triple the area’s laugh quotient for as long as it’s able…
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular delivers this year as deliciously as it always has.
Weill is one of the few talents to emerge utterly unblemished from the City Center Encores! production, playing through Sunday.
Cole and Krane's chronicle of the whole affair, now playing at the York Theatre at St. Peter's, often seems to be in its own, incomprehensible language.
This adaptation, which has been directed by Bartlett Sher, may be many things — including inventively designed and spectacularly cast (at least on paper) — but exciting is not on…
Bock's latest play, A Small Fire, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, demonstrates that even when at his most realistic and affecting, his judgment is not always sure.
Whether the play is suffering from a shortage of darkness or light may be open for debate, but you never feel certain that Thurber knows which lamps should be off or on.
It’s flawless in every way except the one that counts most — its leading lady.
No, Charles Busch isn’t God. But as the Mother Superior in his new comedy, The Divine Sister, which just opened at the SoHo Playhouse, he may be the next best thing.
By sacrificing so much of the original script’s color and messy whimsy, Auburn has made The New York Idea into a play that doesn’t know what it is, and full of characters who no …
Abe Burrows’s 1965 farce, Cactus Flower, and by extension Michael Bush’s new revival of it, are together a 14-karat delight.
Through careful adjustments and retooling, Sullivan and his company have gone even further than once they did in showing how being so trapped can in fact sometimes set you free.
It is, in every conceivable way, better than Billy Elliot — and, until its last two or three scenes, pretty darn good in its own right.
Faith does not come easy to anyone, but Neil LaBute’s intricate and thoughtful new play, The Break of Noon, which MCC is presenting at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, asks whether the conv…
The Seventh President of the United States is making things look rather more effortful at the Bernard B. Jacobs than he did during his previous terms Off-Broadway.
The only thing certain in the pair of Harold Pinter plays that the Atlantic Theater Company is presenting at Classic Stage Company is that identity is never certain.
How, you may ask, can the sight of a man throwing a pie be not just insightful but also fall-down hilarious?
Without the right Daisy blossoming at its center, Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play greatly lacks drive.
When everyone speaks in the dissembling and disconnected thoughts that constitute their ongoing interior monologues, you get mostly a lot of nothing — none of which is worth listening …
