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Tracy Letts's '90s roadside psychodrama makes its Broadway debut.
Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug. © Matthew Murphy.
Bug, written by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, Samuel J. F…
What a misguided affair from such an accomplished team.
This production leans heavily on Williams to humanize a century-old script whose language can feel insistently blunt.
As humans are periodically replaced by eager and curious Primes, the audience tumbles headlong into the uncanny valley.
Diane Paulus is an old pro at taking theatrical IP and infusing wild, contemporary life into it. If only she'd done so here.
Fans of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure registered delight throughout the Hudson Theatre. Bogus? Not a jot.
Yasmina Reza's 1998 comedy abounds in witty chuckles and elegant structure, but it remains a slight boulevard comedy: three self-obsessed Frenchmen bickering over a pricey painting.
Right off, Tarell Alvin McCraney draws the ancient distinction between the vita activa and the vita contemplativa: the active versus contemplative life.
We're not just short-listing major Broadway shows, daring plays and musicals Off but also work by women artists we're excited to see.Â
There's not a dud in the ensemble, from Sandra Oh's flushed and impulsive Olivia to a scene-stealing turn by initialized performer "b" as Antonio, the sailor who rescues Sebastian from drown…
Twenty-four years later, this show still has the emotional depth of a sugared-up fourteen-year-old.
Beyond its sociological themes, the show is a ton of stylish, well-crafted fun with top-notch acting and top-to-bottom earworms.
Conceived and directed by Punchdrunk's chief wizard Felix Barrett, Viola's Room is an audio-guided indoor son et lumière.
If you arrived late and left five minutes early, you might say it crackles along in a noirish vein, but taken as a whole, the drama leaves you hanging.
A rare chance to see the movie star's relaxed natural charm up close in the Minetta Lane Theatre as he plays a professor entangled with a young woman in Hannah Moscovitch's engaging two-hand…
A respectful revival brings this play about the agonies of love and sex vibrantly to life.
This darkly exhilarating musical has what is easily the best new score on Broadway, written by by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and an irreverent yet wistful book by Itamar Moses.
A group of teenagers retreat to the woods to process their feelings in playwright Eliya Smith's thoughtful and elliptical dramedy.
Four short works from England's greatest living playwright blaze forth in outstanding American debuts.
In the most energizing and emotionally wrecking drama this season a group of high school students is studying "The Crucible" and processing the #MeToo movement.
Loosely adapted from a short-lived television series, this musical comedy about the making of a musical is full of showstopping songs and powered by a phenomenal cast.
Culkin leads a cast that includes Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean and Bill Burr in this latest Broadway revival of David Mamet's classic tale of trash-talking salesmen.
Snook gives a master class, playing 26 characters in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel that's hideously apt for our age of Instagram filters and social media.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn't solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production.
Imported from London, this musical about a WWII counterintelligence operation is totally lovable and expertly zany.
