Tap-Happy 'Dames' Proves Seaworthy
A nod to the uncomplicated movie-musicals of the Depression, "Dames at Sea" makes waves with swell performances and a boatload of laughs.
A nod to the uncomplicated movie-musicals of the Depression, "Dames at Sea" makes waves with swell performances and a boatload of laughs.
David Lindsay-Abaire's uneven comedy is about two women of a certain age locked in a high-stakes battle over personal space. David Hyde Pierce directs.
Two entertainment industry giants reunite on Broadway in a heartbreaking update of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The Oscar winner ("12 Years a Slave") makes her New York stage debut in a textured war drama written by Danai Gurira, the actress who plays Michonne on "The Walking Dead."
MTC's revival of Sam Shepard's 1983 "Fool for Love" seizes you quickly and doesn't let go.
The "Bootycandy" author is back with a new comedy about family and truth. It sizzles in some places, but gets a little overdone in others.
A man and his wife reconnect with a woman from their past in Harold Pinter's abstract 1971 drama about the power of memory.
A one-time police officer has written an earnest original musical about young Englishman John Newton, who came of age as Britain sat atop an empire of slavery.
The illusionists return to New York for the first time in 15 years with a sincere and relentlessly beguiling show that includes classics from their repertoire and elements of their Vegas act.
Douglas Carter Beane's remembrance of things past has some solid one-liners and monologues, but he's left Patti LuPone to work without a net.
The author of "Clybourne Park" puts an eloquent gloss on familiar questions about monogamy and free love in the New York premiere of "The Qualms."
As Shakespeare's Prospero, the Public Theater vet is restrained and effective as he settles a score with the traitor brother who stole his dukedom.
Two Imperial soldiers are forced to perform an act of violence in a challenging and graphic new play by the author of "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
The "Big Bang Theory" star plays the almighty in an amusing, if inconsequential comedy by the writer behind @TheTweetofGod.
The two-time Tony winner returns to Broadway as the world's wealthiest woman, who will give the destitute people of her hometown a fortune"but there's a favor she asks in return.
A group of misfits assemble at a seedy hotel to bid farewell to an iconic burlesque performer, in a colorful character study by Lisa D'Amour.
The Bottom Brothers need to write a hit play, but they're stuck in the shadow of Renaissance rock star William Shakespeare in an over-the-top comedy from the director of "The Book of Mormon."
It helps to know a little about opera, but anyone will admire the spectacle of watching the great, celebrated diva in a send-up of great, celebrated divas.
A woman learns to see her parents through grown-up eyes in the achingly painful musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic novel.
An American veteran settles in France and meets a beautiful girl in a new musical inspired by the Gene Kelly-Leslie Caron movie.
The revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, set in 1860s Bangkok, has just opened at the Vivian Beaumont, with a cast of more than 50.
After very public growing pains, the new musical with a score by a pair of U.K. pop kings finally opens at the Lunt-Fontanne.
The "Frasier" star is behind-the-scenes for a musical farce that would fall flat if not for a cast that includes Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris.
The RSC's epic stage adaptation of the Hilary Mantel novels has settled into the Winter Garden Theatre, where its two parts are performed in repertory.
The endearing star of the "High School Musical" franchise catches the eye of "Sugar Prince" Corey Cott in a pleasing update of the Lerner and Loewe musical.