Charting the Path to Supreme By ERIC GRODE

Messrs. Stevens and Fishburne present an unsurprising but nonetheless bracing image: that of the robe-clad judge as war hero.

'Macbeth' Opens on Broadway by Eric Grode

The milk of human kindness, always a rare commodity in Shakespeare's spare but unsparing 'Macbeth,' is nowhere to be found in Rupert Goold's scorched-earth production.

'South Pacific' Lives On in Jazz By WILL FRIEDWALD

A Rose Past Her Peak By ERIC GRODE

In one of the more puzzling and dispiriting developments to reach Broadway in some time, Arthur Laurents's staging of the acidetched 1959 valentine to show business has managed to shed nearl…

Failing to Let the Good Times Roll By ERIC GRODE

"Via Galactica." "Rockabye Hamlet." "Dude." These names ring any bells?

Flimsy Feud By ERIC GRODE

Given Mark Antony's vainglory and Cleopatra's artifice-drenched histrionics in Darko Tresnjak's technically proficient but emotionally opaque "Antony and Cleopatra," this pair wouldn't be li…

John Waters's 'Cry-Baby' on Broadway By ERIC GRODE

This water is never still, and it runs pretty shallow.

A Stylish Spy Thriller By JOY GOODWIN

As the Mint's new production of "The Fifth Column" proves, Ernest Hemingway was an average dramatist at best. Nonetheless, Jonathan Bank's staging of Hemingway's Spanish Civil War espionage …

Brides-To-Be on a Bar Crawl By ERIC GRODE

And that's the weird and rather delightful thing about "The Drunken City": It is a lot of fun, and not in a chortling, gallows-humor sense.

Friendly Feud By JOY GOODWIN

Maggart Makes Her Own Meaning By WILL FRIEDWALD

Translations, and Mistranslations, in 'Damascus' By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

The Friendly, Funny Skies of Broadway's 'Boeing-Boeing' By ERIC GRODE

When was the last time so much physical prowess and comic savvy were brought to bear on material as undeserving as "Boeing-Boeing," a dismal 1960s sex farce receiving a dynamite revival?

Wicked Games, Watered Down, in 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' By ERIC GRODE

Paving the Way for Playwrights By TOM TEODORCZUK

Off-Broadway may not have the clout of its older cousin, the Great White Way, but it's not exactly no man's land, especially to emerging playwrights.

A Splendid New 'South Pacific' By Eric Grode

A Gem of a Debut By JOY GOODWIN

It's not often that an unknown, just-out-of-school playwright is introduced to New York with a full-scale production at the venerable Manhattan Theatre Club. But Liz Flahive proves that she'…

A Despot's Deathscape By ERIC GRODE

In Andrei Belgrader's respectable if occasionally overripe production of "Endgame," the blighted and unmistakably Beckettian deathscape on display offers little promise of new companionship …

Alvin Colt, 91, Doyen of Broadway Costumers By STEPHEN MILLER

A Roundabout Route to A Catered Affair, by Wendy Weisman

In 2004, composer John Bucchino received a fan letter from an unexpected source: the performer and polymath Harvey Fierstein. Mr. Bucchino, flattered by the attention, suggested they meet. L…

Elevator Repair Service's 'The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)'
Review By Eric Grode

Put simply, there is more to see and hear and think and process and experience in this production than in any other show in town. It is not an easy story to hear or an easy way to hear it, b…

Shining A Light On Apartheid, by Eric Grode

This vibrant two-week revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is said to be John Kani and Winston Ntshona's final engagement of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead.

Albee Revisits His 'American Dream' By TOM TEODORCZUK

An hour long, it provides a richer theatrical experience, and has more to say, than most plays that run twice its length.

Idi Amin Is Hogging the Couch By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

A Well-Manicured Meltdown By JOY GOODWIN

The play goes down easy, but its aftertaste is sharp.

Morgan Freeman Is Back on Broadway in 'The Country Girl' By ERIC GRODE

Top Marks for 'Top Girls' By ERIC GRODE

Drumroll, Please ... By ERIC GRODE

Short Slices of Life By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

Here's hoping that the marathon's series B and C are as good.

Tales From The Sweet Side By ERIC GRODE

This slight but comforting stroll down story hour in the Lithgow household, directed unobtrusively by Jack O'Brien, trades heavily on this avuncular image: The imprint of his reading glasses…

Above and Beyond Wedding Night Jitters By JOY GOODWIN

How marvelous, at the end of the theater season, to find a gem like "Rafta, Rafta ..." lying in wait.