Sunday, December 4, 2011
Jim Brochu gives an ebullient portrayal of Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman and Hart's immaculately structured comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDes McAnuff's updated production of Goethe's opera is very well-sung but suffers from too many unhelpful directorial notions.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
This new Broadway musical about the legendary 1930s bank robbers rarely rises above mediocrity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's dance-theater piece takes a questionable view of life among the Shakers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, November 21, 2011
The two Broadway stars haven't fully lost their mannerisms in this often exciting show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 20, 2011
The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's history play is extremely well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross give splendidly sleek performances in this near-perfect production of Noel Coward's classic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
George Orwell's early novel gets an earnest story-theater adaptation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam's opera, centering on a Mormon community in the wake of a scandal, receives a moodily stunning production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Sam Waterston gives a disappointing performance in the title role of James Macdonald's misguided production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Mary Testa proves her greatness in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about Mary Edson Taylor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Wendy Beckett's well-acted drama concerns an adolescent girl torn between her birth mother and adoptive mother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Joel Rooks stars in this welcome revival of Rupert Holmes' smoothly entertaining play about the lives of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 28, 2011
Jay Hunter Morris distinguishes himself in the title role of Richard Wagner's third installment of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMThursday, October 27, 2011
A.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Alan Lester Brooks' thoughtful drama about the Holocaust is worth taking seriously.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Michael Grandage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's classic opera is mostly well-sung, but crudely directed.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Katori Hall's play about an encounter between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel chambermaid on the night before his death boasts award-worthy performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Bruce Graham's troubling play examines the pragmatics of morality.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 10, 2011
Sylvan Oswald's pretentious drama centers on an interracial lesbian affair in the 1960s.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, October 9, 2011
Frank Langella gives an astonishing performance as a corrupt financier in the Roundabout's fine production of Terrence Rattigan's highly effective 1963 melodrama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMThursday, October 6, 2011
As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cab…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Reports on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Man of Rock, and Madame X.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMSunday, October 2, 2011
Reports on Crazy, Just Like Me, The Big Bank, and Ghostlight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Danielle Skrasstad gives a superb performance in this powerful if far-fetched drama about a woman who worked as an interrogator at Guantanamo.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Anna Nebtreko gives her utmost as the doomed queen in the Metropolitan Opera's handsome production of Donizetti's 1830 opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMA woman who scoured stores and the Internet for every type of utensil, Molly was unflaggingly eager to gather friends around her not only to feed them but -- as the devoted Sweets emphasizes…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56AMMonday, September 19, 2011
In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wis…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:35PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
Sharyn Rothstein's deliciously mean, smartly plotted play set in the financial world benefits from the work of a fine cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater cra…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Richard Nelson's new play is a cogent look at the nation's shared experience of life after 9/11.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM 
