103 stories by "SCOTT BROWN"
The playwright behind "Ohio State Murders," opening this month, has a theory as to why: "It's because I'm a Black woman."
Mandy Patinkin's voice holds the same national-treasure/national-joke status as a Julian Schnabel plate-painting or a Keith Haring mural. It's a saccharine klaxon that can whipsaw from birdl…
Citizens: Vote Nina Arianda!
Downtown, two icons of the sexual revolution are reliving their glory days.
Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, which turns a civil-rights parable into a minstrel show, is, on its own discomfiting terms, utterly successful.
Is Pee-wee still “the luckiest boy in the world”? Or just a pop anomaly come round again, like some kandy korn comet, for another pass? Does it matter? Chillax. Pull up a Chairy.…
The play is flawed — a majestic wallow set to the music of blue-collar despair — but the voice of playwright Tommy Nohilly is very promising.
Even the fiercest Palinite will succumb to the charms of Elling, a bent little love triangle between two middle-aged, mentally ill men and a mildly exasperated European welfare state.
Not lucid enough to be middlebrow, even, but definitely muddled-brow. It’s to Warchus’s infinite credit that he can spin straw into gold.
Is this the future of Off Broadway? Fun-size versions of Great White megahits?
It's damned hard to resist deploying a "Blade Re-Runner" pun
In transfiguring his near-perfect Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merchant of Venice for Broadway, director Daniel Sullivan has taken no big gambles, just a bunch of small ones. So…
Back in July, a farsighted friend of mine summed up the likely news narrative for the fall theater season: "Small, quirky, risk-taking shows, however nobly conceived, however starrily stunt-…
With one breathtaking, breakneck 30-minute monologue, he steals the season.
Personally, I'm hoping for a incredible two-man version of "Another National Anthem" from 'Assassins.'
The most startling thing about Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — the ambitious, addled, oddly enervated new musical from composer-lyricist David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundre…
Bracing revivals, brilliantly executed.
That real rare thing: a good, small play.
Van Hove has no interest in subtlety, but neither did Hellman, really, so the match is a good one, even when the show’s super-text starts to bray a bit.
Mark Rylance's goofy set of fake choppers in 'La Bête' are not alone on Broadway, and off.
