Review: A Delicate Ship
"A Delicate Ship" navigates tricky if familiar waters, and does so with remarkable finesse and grace.
"A Delicate Ship" navigates tricky if familiar waters, and does so with remarkable finesse and grace.
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History is made, in more ways than one, in "Hamilton," the consistently thrilling, often groundbreaking new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda...
Not many new musicals come to Broadway with a title song that's been a classic for centuries. But it's one element the well-intentioned and occasionally evocative Amazing Grace has going for…
Among the most amazing feats the very gifted solo artist James Lescene performs in "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey" is turning the title character into flesh and blood, though we …
Watching "King Liz," Fernanda Coppel's ambitious if hopelessly muddled play about a high-powered female sports agent, is reminiscent of being at a recent Knick game.
Colin Quinn is extremely funny under Jerry Seinfeld's almost invisible direction.
Early on in "Ruthless!" Joel Paley and Marvin Laird's deliciously campy musical, now getting a superior revival at St. Luke's...
The laughs come as often, if not moreso, than the oohs-and-ahs at "Penn & Teller on Broadway...
Chris Noth is clearly attracted to playing men of power and arrogance. Noth is now making a return to the New York stage in the title role of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus."
No contemporary playwright has taken a scalpel to the so-called morality and hypocrisy of modern-day America with the same efficiency " never mind, glee " as Bruce Norris.
In many ways, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" has always struck me as sort of a fractured fairy-tale, with its magician/protagonist Prospero, at its center, shape-shifting spirits, gruesome mons…
Thank the comedy gods for Jim Parsons. The Emmy-winning sitcom actor turns frankincense into gold as the titular character in An Act of God.
Madness and mania seem to suit Mary-Louise Parker in Heisenberg.
It would be easy enough to call Jesse Eisenberg's new play "The Spoiled," instead of its actual title "The Spoils." For that adjective seems to perfectly fit its main character, Ben (played …
If you were looking for someone to play Cagney, you simply could not do better than Robert Creighton, the Broadway veteran giving a star-making performance in the title role of the York Thea…
Director Jim Simpson (the longtime artistic director of the Flea Theater) deserves kudos for trying to enliven Gurney's little-known coming-of-age piece "What I Did Last Summer" now being pr…
Nothing stinks in Something Rotten!, a delightfully irreverent mash-up of Broadway musicals and Shakespeare that should keep audiences laughing for many years to come.
Chita Rivera triumphantly returns to Broadway at an ageless 82 in The Visit
Oh, Gigi! What have they done to you?
Fun Home deserves to be the clear favorite for this year's Tony Award for Best Musical.
There's little doubt audiences who relish this kind of grand musical theater will give this outing of The King and I, starring Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe, a royal welcome.
While the show has been guided by the brilliant film mogul Harvey Weinstein and directed with care, it never really takes flight or finds its true voice.
Skylight remains as smart, stirring and knotty as the characters it depicts.
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