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.

Welcome Back, Pee-wee, You Were Sorely Missed by Scott Brown

Is Pee-wee still “the luckiest boy in the world”? Or just a pop anomaly come round again, like some kandy korn comet, for another pass? Does it matter? Chillax. Pull up a Chairy.…

If You Transfer The Merchant of Venice, Does It Not Bleed? by Scott Brown

In transfiguring his near-perfect Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merchant of Venice for Broadway, director Daniel Sullivan has taken no big gambles, just a bunch of small ones. So…

A Perfect Michael Shannon in Mistakes Were Made by Scott Brown

Elf Is All Tinsel, No Tree by Scott Brown

John Guare's Wildly Ambitious A Free Man of Color by Scott Brown

It's a dazzling mess. But like all great, mad manifestos, there are sweet rewards for those willing to take the plunge.

The Low-Key Pleasures of Elling by Scott Brown

Even the fiercest Palinite will succumb to the charms of Elling, a bent little love triangle between two middle-aged, mentally ill men and a mildly exasperated European welfare state.

Californicated David Duchovny Denied True Schmuckery in Neil LaBute’s Break of Noon by Scott Brown

Two plays opening this week embrace the tradition of lily-liveredness, or try to, and both are comedies — though one of them doesn’t seem fully aware of it.

Theater Review: In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards, is Social Theater At Its Best by Scott Brown

Theater Review: From the Folks That Brought You Brief Encounter, a Gorgeously Underdeveloped Red Shoes by Scott Brown

A Sharp Pair of Pinters, at the Atlantic Theater Company by Scott Brown

Bracing revivals, brilliantly executed.

Stage Dive: A Bloody Week for Broadway Risk-Takers by Scott Brown

Back in July, a farsighted friend of mine summed up the likely news narrative for the fall theater season: "Small, quirky, risk-taking shows, however nobly conceived, however starrily stunt-…

Review: Heidi Schreck’s Untidy, Satisfying There Are No More Big Secrets by Scott Brown

Review: Next Wave’s Metamorphosis Is a Nightmare Worth Having by Scott Brown

Review: Artist Meets Artist in John Kelly’s Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte by Scott Brown

The Year in Theater by Scott Brown

Why smaller, stranger, angrier little shows had a powerful appeal.

Review: A Blind Date You Will Actually Enjoy by Scott Brown

Rebecca Northan has arrived at a remarkable insight: An unscripted comedy-hour is really no different than a blind date — right down to the two-drink minimum.

Review: Yes, I Am Recommending a Seven-Hour Play About Afghanistan by Scott Brown

'The Great Game' is seven mostly remarkable, nearly always riveting hours of docudrama--a download of Wikileaksian proportions

Edna O’Brien’s Haunted Is an Anglo-Irish Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Scott Brown

Breathless Countdown to Stephen Sondheim on The Colbert Report! by Scott Brown

Personally, I'm hoping for a incredible two-man version of "Another National Anthem" from 'Assassins.'

Review: Watch an Actor Commit Career Suicide in His Apartment. One-of-a-Kind Theater You Don’t Want to Miss! by Scott Brown

Ed Schmidt's haunting one-man show in his Brooklyn bachelor pad is about how theater has failed him in his hour of need.

Review: Three Pianos by Scott Brown

It's a relaxed-fit evening of hip musical scholarship and guys’-night-in yammering.

Stage Dive: A Weekly Roundup, This Time With Vampires and Hot Sex! by Scott Brown

Another vampire that sucks on Broadway, and two plays with amorous coupling for all ages!

Stage Dive: Freedom Club Is the Most Eerily Prescient Show of the Week by Scott Brown

This elaborate doomsday scenario about assassination, our ambient insanity, and its complex relationship with American politics was just a little too close for comfort after the events of th…

Stage Dive: An Absolutely Perfect (and Important) Earnest by Scott Brown

Review: Other Desert Cities Makes Rich Families Fighting Feel Fresh Again by Scott Brown

Stage Dive: Ethan Hawke Better Than Ever in Blood From a Stone by Scott Brown

The play is flawed — a majestic wallow set to the music of blue-collar despair — but the voice of playwright Tommy Nohilly is very promising.

Stage Dive: Fiona Shaw and Alan Rickman Rip Into Ibsen by Scott Brown

And who doesn't want to see that? Ibsen's nasty John Gabriel Borkman is at its black-comic best when these two bite into it.

Stage Dive: I Will Review Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on February 7 — Here’s Why by Scott Brown

Stage Dive: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church by Scott Brown

Review: Cymbeline Revitalizes Shakespeare’s Much-Mocked Epic by Scott Brown