Belasco theatre, New YorkMitchell's extraordinary performance " a far cry from Neil Patrick Harris's crowd-pleasing turn " brings a darker edge to the role he created 20 years ago"How did so…
American Airlines theater, New YorkSet on a train, this musical boasts screwball gags and an alluring pair of leads in Peter Gallagher and Kristin Chenoweth, but lack of memorable tunes make…
Siblings spar about the fate of their neighborhood in New Orleans in "Brothers From the Bottom," a play at the Billie Holiday Theater.
This two-character show from Prospect Theater Company follows a couple from first date till death.
In Mr. Netanyahu's drama, a Jewish couple shies from recognizing just how much life is about to change as the Nazis rise in Germany.
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, New YorkCush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocation Continue reading...
This adaptation of Georg Büchner's challenging fragment of a play, by No-Win Productions, teeters between reality and fantasy.
Gerald Schoenfeld theatre, New YorkThe star shows dignity and grace in the lead role of Peter Morgan's play, directed by Stephen Daldry Continue reading...
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E Newhouse, New YorkAn actor with a face built for discontent animates a drama about a young interracial couple whose family keep butting into their low-w…
In this play at the Irish Arts Center, Mr. Murfi's cobbler has to deliver goods to a customer, and the audience gets to hear his internal monologue.
This experimental play by William Burke, whose cast includes dogs played by humans and real dogs, forces you to look at the nature of communication a little differently.
Chiara Atik's series of comedy sketches has a lewd title and a tender heart.
Ms. Barfield's new drama at City Center explores a long-term relationship from start to finish, but not necessarily in that order.
The actor once struggled to move on from American Pie-type roles, but now he is digging deeper as he costars in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles Continue reading...
Vineyard Theater, New YorkWith characters created by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, this show has good jokes for Brooklyn aficionados but never generates real heat Continue reading...
Ms. Moss returns to Broadway, portraying a successful professional wondering if she can have it all in this 1988 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The Pearl Theater Company's "The Winter's Tale" plays out as a tipsy dinner party that skids toward tragedy over dessert.
Marc Palmieri's half comedy and half tragedy, at Axis Theater, follows a landscaper turned playwright who hires some New York professionals to stage his work in his Long Island garage.
Trav S.D.'s play, at La MaMa, is based on the life of Adah Isaacs Menken, a flamboyant liar and theater star of the mid-1800s.
Public Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
A professor at Brooklyn College has helped to turn out some of the city's most wildly inventive young playwrights by shooing them out of their comfort zones.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkLaughter in the dark rings loudly in this uncut, immaculately cast and virtuosically staged five-hour version of O'Neill's excoriating drama Continue readi…
Sheila Callaghan's volatile new work touches on beauty and body image, intimacy and alienation, art and commerce, fantasy and reality.
"Josephine and I," Ms. Jumbo's new solo show, tells the story of Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born performer who became a legend in Paris.
At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O'Neill's bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can't resist " the playwright's work, he says, is 'like being…