At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? by Scott Brown

The playwright behind “Ohio State Murders,” opening this month, has a theory as to why: “It’s because I’m a Black woman.”

Theater Review: A Born Yesterday for Today by Scott Brown

Citizens: Vote Nina Arianda!

Action vs. Jackson by Scott Brown

Benjamin Walker could have been a Hollywood superhero. Instead, he's at the Jacobs Theatre, rocking the man on the $20 bill.

The Mama Grizzly of The Little Foxes by Scott Brown

Van Hove has no interest in subtlety, but neither did Hellman, really, so the match is a good one, even when the show’s super-text starts to bray a bit.

A Spellbinding Six-Hour Gatz by Scott Brown

The Power of Just Words, in Lawrence Wright's The Human Scale by Scott Brown

Is Natasha Lyonne the Next Kathleen Turner? by Scott Brown

Review: What Do Charles Busch and Linda Lovelace Have in Common? by SCOTT BROWN

Downtown, two icons of the sexual revolution are reliving their glory days.

A Very Chilly Life in the Theatre by Scott Brown

David Mamet's play is performed, word perfect, by Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight. And that's the problem.

Andrew Jackson Is Bloodless on Broadway by Scott Brown

Your Comp-Lit T.A. Would Have Loved La Bête by Scott Brown

Not lucid enough to be middlebrow, even, but definitely muddled-brow. It’s to Warchus’s infinite credit that he can spin straw into gold.

Stage Dive: Did Philip K. Dick Dream of Downtown Theater? by Scott Brown

It's damned hard to resist deploying a "Blade Re-Runner" pun

Searching for Deep Meaning in The Language Archive by Scott Brown

The actors push and push, trying to get some momentum, but Cho, in trying to write a timeless fable, has instead created a paceless half-play.

Stage Dive: The Gathering of the Jackalos? by Scott Brown

So I’m at Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson last night, and in the row ahead of me, a long-haired gentleman (wearing what I believe was an “I’m Andrew $%#@ing Jackson” T-s…

Stage Dive: Alec Baldwin Must Return to Broadway, But in What? by Scott Brown

I woke up this morning thinking fondly of Alec Baldwin. As I often do. (This and so many other things set me apart from Kim Basinger and Roger Ailes.)

Lombardi’s Well-Worn Playbook by Scott Brown

The play belongs on a pageant wagon parked outside Lambeau Field; its presence on Broadway is, to adopt the parlance, a real ball-scratcher.

Stage Dive: There’s a Theater in Their Mouths, and Everyone’s Invited! by Scott Brown

Mark Rylance's goofy set of fake choppers in 'La Bête' are not alone on Broadway, and off.

Wings Soars With Jan Maxwell by Scott Brown

Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones Drive an Angrier Miss Daisy by Scott Brown

Watching director David Bjornson’s rickety read-through of a revival, I found Gaines’s performance to be the only indispensable one onstage — the lone breathing human up th…

Julia Stiles Leads the Jittery Collegiate Thrills of Persephone by Scott Brown

If Baz Lurhmann and Laurie Anderson got stoned listening to late-night college-radio electro-pop, Persephone is what they’d hallucinate. And whether or not you’ll dig it depends …

For Aching Male-o-drama, See Spirit Control by Scott Brown

The Spectacularly Overstuffed Angels in America by Scott Brown

A lusty, lumpy, lovably imperfect remount.

The Globe's Joyous, Buoyant Merry Wives of Windsor by Scott Brown

The Globe Theatre's Merry Wives of Windsor is a kind of juice cleanse for the theatrically besotted, overdosed, and/or toxified.

The Brilliant Blunt Force of The Scottsboro Boys by Scott Brown

Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, which turns a civil-rights parable into a minstrel show, is, on its own discomfiting terms, utterly successful.

The Vast Emptiness (With Punch Lines) of Middletown by Scott Brown

Will Eno's 'Middletown' isn't a play, it's a place. And there's nothing there.

Mark Rylance Unplugged by Scott Brown

With one breathtaking, breakneck 30-minute monologue, he steals the season.

Review: Women on the Verge Not on the Verge of Much by Scott Brown

The most startling thing about Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — the ambitious, addled, oddly enervated new musical from composer-lyricist David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundre…

Is Off Broadway Turning Into Post-Broadway? by Scott Brown

Is this the future of Off Broadway? Fun-size versions of Great White megahits?

For Colin Quinn, History is One Long Barroom Brawl by Scott Brown

In Long Story Short, Quinn skims thousands of year with an autodidact's stentorian emphasis and a drinking buddy's beer-breath bonhomie.

After the Revolution’s Hopeless Un-Hopefulness by Scott Brown

Review: Two Mind-blowing Shows (One Involving Charlie Chaplin — or Parts of Him) by Scott Brown

When a man eats a lightbulb for your wincing pleasure, you'll follow him anywhere.