Cititour Review: Tick Tick…Boom
Reality inevitably intrudes on any production of "Tick Tick…Boom," now being given its first major Off-Broadway revival by the Keen Company at the Acorn Theatre.
Reality inevitably intrudes on any production of "Tick Tick…Boom," now being given its first major Off-Broadway revival by the Keen Company at the Acorn Theatre.
Mike Bartlett's often hilarious, ultimately troubling comedy "Love, Love, Love," now at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre...
"Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical" will absolutely chase your blues away for two hours, but it isn't quite good enough to warrant making a return reservation.
"The Encounter" a feast for the mind and the senses, and an exciting kickoff to the Broadway season.
Perhaps there should be seat belts installed at Second Stage, because Leslye Headland's dark-hued, thoroughly unsettling drama "The Layover" is full of turbulence, unexpected turns, and (sem…
If you're under 30, or work or play with people under 30, you probably know someone like Lauren, the heroine/anti-heroine of Lucy Teitler's incisive comedy "Engagements," now receiving its N…
Daniel Radcliffe returns to the stage in Privacy.
There's dancing in the streets of Manhattan again. 41st Street to be exact, the home of the Nederlander Theater where the crowd-pleasing "Motown the Musical" has resurfaced, 18 months after …
"Oslo," J.T. Rogers' dazzling drama about the back-channel peace talks that led to the groundbreaking (if short-lived) peace treaty between Israel and the PLO, now being given a 14-karat gol…
...William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," a raucous, if now very politically incorrect, comedy in which a free-thinking firebrand of a woman learns to submit to the whims of her ab…
Anyone familiar with the work of the prolific playwright Adam Rapp will hardly be surprised to learn there's profanity, vulgarity, and a shocking act of violence in his one-act "The Purple L…
Revel in the remarkable talent of Sean Hayes, in An Act of God, while you have the chance.
Usually, I only tell my enemies to go to hell, but I'm making an exception. Friends, countrymen, whoever "get thee down to New York Theatre Workshop where Anais Mitchell's remarkably diverti…
If reading the newspaper isn't enough to scare and remind you of the dangers of puritanism and censorship, one only needs to head down to the Vineyard Theatre to see Paula Vogel and Rebecca …
Do people " and plays " deserve a second chance? These thoughts ran rapidly through my mind while watching Neil Armfield's often stunning production of David Hare's "The Judas Kiss..."
George C. Wolfe's "Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," is a history lesson wrapped in a vivid theatrical entertainment wrapped in a rebuke.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson makes a winning return to Broadway for the first time since Modern Family thrust him into the sitcom spotlight.
"Tuck Everlasting," the enchanting new musical version of Natalie Babbitt's popular children's novel now at the Broadhurst Theatre, may not be the ideal date night fare for an adult couple o…
"Sugar. Butter. Flour." These are the necessary ingredients for a good pie, as we're constantly reminded in "Waitress," the remarkably appealing musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly's popul…
An explosive, resonant revival of The Crucible, Miller's 1953 drama about fear and persecution during the Salem witch trials.
Steve Martin is a man of many, many talents, but on the evidence of the Broadway's "Bright Star," now at the Cort Theatre, writing the book of a musical simply isn't one of them.
Charming. Enchanting. Endearing. It's almost a guarantee that these words will apply to any production of "She Loves Me," the 1963 musical about two shop clerks in 1934 Budapest who are unkn…
It can be hard to tell what piles up faster " the bodies or the belly laughs in Disaster!, the cleverly campy spoof of everything 1970s which has now landed at the Nederlander Theatre.
You can hear the echo of Death of a Salesman in Stephen Karam's outstanding family drama The Humans, and the best new work by an American scribe this season.
To the Westons of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" and the Blakes of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," let us add the Chinyaramwiras of Danai Gurira's "Familiar," now at Playwrights Horizons.