If you think a dementia patient can be cheerfully ditsy and if you can laugh at the sight of an angry, nearly blind woman plotting to use her wheelchair-bound roommate as a tool for escape from their nursing home, then Tina Howe's latest play, Chasing Manet is a pill you can easily swallow.
"Rock of Ages" should satisfy nostalgists with a penchant for '80s kitsch, but its lack of depth makes it unlikely to impress a wider audience.
Nicholas Martin's job is to keep thing fast and light, even-perhaps especially-with Durang's "Why Torture Is Wrong."
This latest chapter is a more mature, more satisfying work about one man's decision to grow up and face the consequences of what he has done. His emotionally bruising journey to adulthood is…
You could feel the love at the 15th annual TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards
Tovah Feldshuh adds another indomitable heroine to an impressive pantheon in the Broadway hit "Irena's Vow."
The current off-Broadway revival of "Hamlet" is modern, streamlined and primarily black and white, but there is plenty of color, as always, in the centuries-old richness of Shakespeare's wor…
Threatened fare hikes. Possible service cuts. And now a pretentious new musical about folks trapped underground in a subway car for what could be an eternity. New York strap-hangers can't se…
Irena's Vow may be melodramatic and occasionally manipulative, but the emotions this stage biography stirs in theatergoers are genuine, a testament to the bravery and tenacity of the woman whose real-life story is being told.
We haven't seen a star turn like this in quite a while.
The daughter of the late Leonard Bernstein is taking after her father.
The cast gives an emotional portrayal of the effect on ordinary people of inner-city violence.
The talky, lifeless production, which opened Tuesday at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, has been directed by Jack O'Brien, who apparently has worked with playwright Michael Jacobs to w…
Zach Grenier holds his own as the irascible genius of "33 Variations."
The role of "Billy Elliot" 's coal-mining dad has been uniquely gratifying for Gregory Jbara.
Civility gets thoroughly trashed—along with a few other things—in Yasmina Reza's hilarious yet surprisingly thoughtful comedy.
Jane Alexander returns to the stage to play a feisty aging painter who's "Chasing Manet."
Light and airy requires heavy lifting—theatrically speaking. And for the most part, the starry cast of the latest Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit delivers the goods, artfully keeping the classic Noel Coward comedy spinning merrily.
In "Mandance Project," choreographer Eliot Feld explores the indigenous and courts imbalance.
How to interpret the fast, funny "Shrek" for deaf and blind audiences? It's all about set-up and punchline.
Tempers flare in "The Savannah Disputation," but Marylouise Burke stays stubbornly-and hilariously-sweet.
Director Des McAnuff has put together a perpetual-motion, high-concept, high-tech revival of Guys and Dolls. Unfortunately, the curiously bland results don't translate into high entertainment.