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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.
Danger comes knocking anew in Rebecca Frecknall's searing revival of Tennessee Williams's tragic play, starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran.
Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois and Paul Mescal …
Playwright Abe Koogler's portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that's a tasting menu of acting brilliance.
Broadway has George Clooney and two different shows based on TV series. Downtown has space travel and T.S. Eliot. Brooklyn has Chekhov and an ant invasion. This theater season, there's somet…
This two-hander about estranged half-brothers with a dying mother is painfully gorgeous.
Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.
Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?
