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Mary Testa proves her greatness in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about Mary Edson Taylor.
Wendy Beckett's well-acted drama concerns an adolescent girl torn between her birth mother and adoptive mother.
Joel Rooks stars in this welcome revival of Rupert Holmes' smoothly entertaining play about the lives of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
Jay Hunter Morris distinguishes himself in the title role of Richard Wagner's third installment of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle.
A.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.
Alan Lester Brooks' thoughtful drama about the Holocaust is worth taking seriously.
Michael Grandage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's classic opera is mostly well-sung, but crudely directed.
Katori Hall's play about an encounter between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel chambermaid on the night before his death boasts award-worthy performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B…
Bruce Graham's troubling play examines the pragmatics of morality.
Sylvan Oswald's pretentious drama centers on an interracial lesbian affair in the 1960s.
Frank Langella gives an astonishing performance as a corrupt financier in the Roundabout's fine production of Terrence Rattigan's highly effective 1963 melodrama.
As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cab…
Danielle Skrasstad gives a superb performance in this powerful if far-fetched drama about a woman who worked as an interrogator at Guantanamo.
Anna Nebtreko gives her utmost as the doomed queen in the Metropolitan Opera's handsome production of Donizetti's 1830 opera.
A woman who scoured stores and the Internet for every type of utensil, Molly was unflaggingly eager to gather friends around her not only to feed them but -- as the devoted Sweets emphasizes…
In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wis…
Sharyn Rothstein's deliciously mean, smartly plotted play set in the financial world benefits from the work of a fine cast.
In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater cra…
Richard Nelson's new play is a cogent look at the nation's shared experience of life after 9/11.
Elevator Repair Service serves up an unconvincng adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel about American expatriates in 1920s Paris.
Rehana Lew Mirza's heartfelt, but often clunky drama addresses prejudices that fomented with ugly repercussions in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist-attack.
The Fiasco Theater's six-actor production of Shakespeare's crazy-quilt of a play is even pluckier and perkier than in its previous outing.
When it comes to typefaces, I've long been an Arial man. Still, I'm typing this on my aging Mac in Helvetica. Why? I've finished reading Simon Garfield's irresistible <em>Just My Ty…
This cabaret act at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room is a mixed bag of hits and misses.
Sung Hwa Chung delivers a strong performance as Korean national hero An Chunggun in this musically derivative tuner.
