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

The Ultimate Sondheim Spoiler Alert: Seven Secrets From Look, I Made a Hat by Scott Brown

Does October 25 sound like “Soon” or "Later" to you, Sondheim fans? Whether it's sooner or later, it's certainly not now — but it is the earliest you'll get a peek at the s…

Stage Dive: The Sound and the Fury of Mandy Patinkin by Scott Brown

Mandy Patinkin's voice holds the same national-treasure/national-joke status as a Julian Schnabel plate-painting or a Keith Haring mural. It's a saccharine klaxon that can whipsaw from birdl…

Theater Reviews: Merrily We Roll Along Is Still Backing Into Greatness by Scott Brown

Are you okay, old friend?

Theater Review: A Wit That Still Crackles by Scott Brown

That real rare thing: a good, small play.

Theater Review: The Daisey-splaining of Yes This Man, Formerly Known As Yes All Women by Scott Brown

Yes This Man, the title of Mike Daisey's slender new monologue, has a kind of "Ecce Homo" quality to it, and Daisey, declaredly, plays his own Pilate here. As a white male monologist, monolo…

Steve Cosson Likes His Theater Dead -- Vulture by Scott Brown

New York's premier investigative theater company looks into death this weekend.

Weekend Theater: Tennessee Williams, David Morse -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Amanda Plummer makes existing look so hard in the Tennessee Williams revival.

The Five: Theater by Scott Brown and Rebecca Milzoff and Jennifer Vineyard

A particularly starry spring descends on Broadway.

The Les Miz Revival: Broadway Eats Its Own Tail -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh, friend of the working man, is bringing miserable back. All the miserables, in fact: Les Misérables " flush with brand recognition after its extreme close-up …

Stage Performance of the Year by Scott Brown

Shuler Hensley in The Whale.

Detroit's Finest by Scott Brown

Is Sarah Sokolovic theater's next great actress?

Theater Reviews: Forbidden Broadway, Mary Broome -- Vulture by Scott Brown

To the strains of "Brink of Doom" (à la Brigadoon), the parody institution Forbidden Broadway " skewering the Great White Way for 30 years now " reemerges after a three-year hiatus. And j…

Don't Cry for Them by Scott Brown

As two revivals arrive on Broadway, a critic revisits Lloyd Webber and Rice.

Theater Review: A Wit That Still Crackles by Scott Brown

Wit is in good health for its age (fourteenish, an awkward time for a revival) and risk profile (star-driven, midwinter Manhattan Theatre Club production).

It Ain't Necessarily... by Justin Davidson and Scott Brown

Musical? Opera? Rapture? Travesty? Two critics on the remade Porgy and Bess.

31. Because We Have Blood Feuds Over, Yes, Broadway Musicals. by Scott Brown

In an age of endless squabbles over nothing, from the debt ceiling to foreign aid, New Yorkers know whatÂ’s worth fighting over.

Theater Review: Once Turns Small-Scale Indie Romance Into Musical Theater -- Vulture by Scott Brown

There's much to love (along with a few choices that mystify me) in Once, a sweet mash of tuneful, youthful, beautiful blarney that's successfully leapt from screen to stage.

The Year in Theater by Scott Brown

Small-scale brilliance, a mystery hotel"and those singing Mormons!

The Off Brand by Scott Brown

Some of the best shows came and went in a flash.

Theater Review: Is Godspell Worthy? -- Vulture by Scott Brown

What's so wrong with an "updated" Godspell? Golly, aren't they all updated? Perhaps no other American musical cries out for retrofitting more than this one, with its strung-together parables…

O Brother by Scott Brown

The Ethan Coen"Woody Allen"Elaine May triptych Relatively Speaking nearly drowns in its own shtick.

Theater Review: Newsies' Time Is Now -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Print media, organized labor, and musical theater: Three institutions from Golden Age America so perennially beleaguered, they've more or less been reduced to camp. And really, what's so bad…

One Cheer for the Fringe Festival by Scott Brown

On hoping for the best, every August.

Theater Review: A Summer of Impressively Tough Gals, in As You Like It and MoLoRa -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Fond of women who don't " correction, won't " know their place, confine themselves to their appointed range, or answer to any authority other than their own instincts, even if it means their…

Theater Review: Familiar Stories Made Fresh, Just in Time for the Weekend -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Davis McCallum is a director to watch. Taking the reins of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents,, he turns a wet little Freudian nightmare into a muscular seriocomedy " one that (to th…

Theater Review: Shakespeare in the Park, Twice Over (Plus Once in Greenwich) -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Is there anything more glorious than an outdoor wedding in summertime? The bride blushing (and scheming and strategizing), the clueless horndog groom elaborately entrapped, and some fickle a…

Jason Sudeikis Impersonated Our Theater Critic Getting a Painful Foot Massage -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Last week, I took a break from critiquing Off"Off Broadway plays about naked hip-hop Serbo lesbian forest children struggling with father issues and consumerism to interview actor-comedian J…

How the Tonys Were the Anti-Oscars in the Best Possible Way -- Vulture by Scott Brown

I didn't attend the Tonys " I prefer to experience shared cultural moments (awards ceremonies, inaugurations, targeted assassinations) the way nature intended, via telecast " but so far, I'm…

Theater Reviews: The Not-Exactly-Lost Tennessee Williams Returns; Plus: The Tiny Thriller That Could -- Vulture by Scott Brown

One Arm, Moisés Kaufman's fast, fierce, brutally beautiful stage adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams, is more than a play: It's a time machine. Kaufman has retrieve…

Theater Reviews: Onstage Now, Bergman's Light and Kushner's Language -- Vulture by Scott Brown

What will Karin choose to believe? Does she even have a choice? Do we?