1,308 stories by "Charles McNulty"
The lesson of "Waterfall," the ersatz new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, is that you can't judge a show by the resumes of the artists.
How can you not love a musical about a badly mistreated pint-sized prodigy whose passion for reading rescues her from the bullies and boors around her?
Critic's notebook on last night's awards
Broadway went big this year. Big box office, big attendance, big flops and big statements.
How do the voters make their Tony Award decisions? Here's the capricious breakdown.
The world isn't a meritocracy, the prize doesn't always go to the most deserving and Vincent van Gogh isn't the only artist to have gone to his grave unheralded.
"Murder for Two," a musical whodunit performed cabaret-theater style by two indefatigable actors, is part tag team, part tug of war.
The Public Theater's game-changing artistic director has been retooling the American musical
Who's the toast of Broadway at the moment? While fans of Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O'Hara duke it out, let's raise a glass to Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's game-changing artistic dire…
Of the 10 Tony Award nominees in the lead actor and actress categories for drama, five are English. We look at what the Brits have brought to Broadway stages over the past season, and why th…
This year, the discussion around the Academy Awards was all about the unbearable whiteness of being an acting nominee. The Tony Awards can hardly brag about diversity. It's never a good sign…
Time veils the past in mystery for everyone, but theater artist Lars Jan's case is exceptional. His late father, an enigmatic Polish-born Cold War operative, remains an elusive figure despit…
Deaf West Theatre has a way of reimagining musicals. The company's practice of assigning certain roles to two actors, one singing, the other signing, opens the art form up to deaf performers…
The musical theater stalwart casts herself as the victim and opens old wounds in recounting her life and career.
Dramatic adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work should carry a warning to audiences that the characters and situations they're about to encounter are likely to be disturbing in the extreme.…
Louisville's Marc Masterson will be taking over at the playwright-friendly venue, and he can't go wrong following these suggestions.
'The King's Speech' gives voice to a mature view of the affliction and those who struggle with it.
Before moving to L.A., I was on the faculty of Brooklyn College's MFA program in theater. If I were still there, I'd make "Just Kids" required reading.
Not a banner year by any stretch, but good work will always out. This year, the advantage fell decidedly to directors who weren't afraid to let their artistry show.
There's a perky ray of sunshine with gawky eyeglasses and a cautious smile brightening this agreeable adaptation from the Tony-winning team of James Lapine and William Finn (whose collaborat…
As anyone who caught “The Pain and the Itch” at the Theatre @ Boston Court a couple of seasons back can verify, Bruce Norris doesn't write plays to win popularity contests.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the prodigiously talented author of "The Brother/Sister Plays," has called August Wilson a mentor, though Wilson's stylistic influence hasn't been conspicuous.
Emily, the hands-on owner of a construction firm in Adam Bock's "A Small Fire," is never more at home than when barking orders to her workers at a building site.
Sometimes a musical finds its ideal home away from home.
Phylicia Rashad-directed 'Immediate Family' is often touching, amusing and means to do some good; review
