Review: Far from Heaven
If any questions remains why Kelli O'Hara has become musical theater's most sought-after leading lady, look no further than Playwrights Horizons, where the three-time Tony Award nominee is g…
If any questions remains why Kelli O'Hara has become musical theater's most sought-after leading lady, look no further than Playwrights Horizons, where the three-time Tony Award nominee is g…
It's not surprising that 22 years have changed Lea Salonga from the innocent ingénue who broke our hearts in Miss Saigon to the remarkably confident (and even more gorgeous) woman standing …
If you're in need of a good laugh, it would be unwise to skip Unconstitutional right now.
Douglas Carter Beane's profile of a gay burlesque star in 1930s New York has a case of dramaturgical bipolarity.
Motown's ambitions are as grand as those of the record label's founder...
The finest new musical of the 2012-2013 season!
Mothers are consistently celebrated for their deep, abiding love towards their children -- and perhaps no more so than the Virgin Mary. But in Colm Toibin's provocative and often searing mon…
Artistically, there's no really good reason to revive Jekyll & Hyde. This 1997 tuner is a shoddily plotted, musically bombastic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about a sc…
Bobby Cannavale has charisma to spare, which proves to be a good thing since he's on stage practically every minute of Doug Hughes' lavish yet leaden revival of Clifford Odets' melodrama, Th…
Even though he's a Broadway newbie, Tom Hanks gives the kind of meticulous, multilayered performance in Lucky Guy that we've come to expect from the two-time Oscar winner.
There may be awesomely flexible drag queens, six-inch stiletto heels, and even a hairy man in a t-shirt, but there is absolutely nothing in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots that will sto…
Not every story needs to be a Broadway extravaganza. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, which began life as lovely little 90-minute TV special in 1957, has been stretched an…
Cynical audience members can be forgiven for wondering if the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody will be, much like its subject matter, an endurance test. After all, just how interesti…
She may be iconic, but Holly Golightly is just one of many beautiful young women who come to New York seeking self-reinvention. Scores of TV and film stars arrive on Broadway each season, ho…
Cirque du Soleil has pitched its Grand Chapiteau in New York again " this time at Queens' Citi Field " and the result is...
"Make 'em laugh, Make 'em laugh, don't you know everyone wants to laugh?" sang Donald O'Connor over 60 years ago in Singin' in the Rain. Well, few people on the planet know how to make peopl…
Even if Marilyn Maye didn't ask the audience to shout a hearty "Hallelujah" during her rendition of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's joyous "Get Happy," part of her extraordinary new nightclub…
Ann Richards may have died in 2006, but the indomitable, inspirational spirit of this remarkable woman, is alive and well and living on the stage of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater …
Still jolly good fun after all these years...
When you've won a Tony Award for your Broadway debut " and you're one of Hollywood's hottest stars (in every sense of the word) -- what do you for an encore? If you're Scarlett Johansson, yo…
As long as big-name actors yearn to inhabit the bodies and souls of the colorfully crass, ethically compromised salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross, it seems producers will be happy to put up th…
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular was once the only major family holiday show in town. Now there's a flurry of them, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf and, new to the New York…
Think Annie is just for kids, do you? Then you might be surprised to know that the 1977 Tony-winning musical has a dark side, which is never more apparent than in this sterling-silver reviva…
The Heiress isn't widely regarded as a 20th-century classic. But director Moises Kaufman and the starry cast of this Broadway revival will have you reconsidering its merits.
Douglas Hodge embodies a larger-than-life persona to exquisite heights.