Tony Award nominations will be announced Tuesday morning for what has been one of the busiest, best and most competitive seasons in recent memory. After 13 new musicals, five musical revival…
The whereabouts of Nora Helmer have been imagined, debated and even dramatized since 1879, when she shocked the Victorian world by slamming the door on her ostensibly happy marriage in Henri…
The title "Bandstand" is a curveball. So is the subtitle, "The New American Musical." For audiences of a certain age, the name of the season's final musical suggests those dopey and adored t…
When John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" opened in 1990, the scintillating tragic-comedy was scathing and wildly enjoyable, even though one of the targets -- New York's radical chic -- …
Every couple of years -- OK, two years ago and now -- Broadway producers have felt compelled to stage a big, bombastic, romantic musical about recent Russian history, preferably based on at …
For a musical about the wonder of pure imagination, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is bizarrely lacking in it.
If there were such a thing as a happiness meter at the Shubert Theatre these days, where, oh, where would that be placed? The obvious position is in the audience, where fans of "Hello, Dolly…
The next time anyone challenges the need to have nonprofit Broadway houses alongside the commercial theaters, I'm going to shout out, "The Little Foxes."
Andy Karl, who performed at the opening of "Groundhog Day" Monday and the following day despite a serious knee injury, has cut back his appearances this week to just Friday and Saturday even…
Has there ever been anything quite like "Indecent," a play that touches -- I mean deeply touches -- so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship,…
I saw Andy Karl in "Groundhog Day" on Thursday, and he was terrific. So, in fact, was the show, an ingenious, witty, dark yet joyously offbeat musical about Phil Connors, a snotty big-city T…
We don't often get the chance to think about Carol Channing and Eugene O'Neill's father in the same space. But here we are, pondering actors who famously made their careers with massively po…
Andy Karl, the star of the new musical, "Groundhog Day," injured his knee toward the end of Friday's performance, which may have jeopardized Monday's opening of the much-anticipated show.
Patti LuPone's voice glistens in many dark shades of steel -- shards with sharp points and astonishing smooth edges. Christine Ebersole sounds classy and creamy, but cream that bites and sti…
Kevin Kline has always struck me as a character actor trapped in a leading man's body -- too quirky and complicated to be satisfied as a romantic hero, but too great looking to simply play t…
We have learned many things about Harvey Fierstein since his breakout 1983 Tony-winning "Torch Song Trilogy" inspired him to declare himself the first "real-life, out-of-the-closet queer on …
The Broadway season has many openings left before the late-April cutoff, but it seems safe to say that none is likely to be weirder than "Amelie." Given the bushels of imagination in directo…
How many times must characters get smashed in the head with doors and other wooden planks before, I admit it, even the most farce-averse among us gets worn down enough to love it? Is there a…
When Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" opens on Broadway later this month, Laura Linney will crawl under the thick skin of Regina, the furious Southern wife cut out from her family inheri…
John Leguizamo is out to teach us something in "Latin History for Morons," but don't run for the door. He's wearing a professorial tweedy sport jacket and a tie, and is surrounded by books, …
For a brief moment before the November election, the news was filled with stories about disenfranchised blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt. At the same time, smack in the eye of the news cy…
Cole Porter wrote a lark of a racy musical called "The New Yorkers" to cheer people up during the financial panic of 1930. Three days later, the Bank of the United States failed. Twenty week…
Well, the helicopter has landed again and it's still very big. The mercenary Eurasian pimp known as The Engineer is bumping and grinding again on the hood of another Cadillac while singing a…
Off-Broadway's longest-running show closes at the Jerry Orbach Theater in Times Square.
What looks alarmingly like a dead, skinned goat hangs upside down from a hook at the start of Sarah Ruhl's "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage." A willowy woman enters, seems to whisper somet…