Hungry for clichés? "Airline Highway" is chock full of them. A hooker with a heart of gold, a gruff handyman, a sassy gender-bending African-American, a lonely stripper: Every character in.…
Broadway hits have a kind of white-hot energy: Everything from story to song clicks into place, the actors are firing on all cylinders " and the audience knows it's watching...
Fiery revolutionaries, overheated passions, power ballads belted to the balconies, an upstanding hero and a fanatical villain " hey, if it worked for "Les Misérables," it could work for "Do…
The new Broadway comedy "Living on Love" isn't just filled with clichés " it revels in them. This is a show that has its cake, eats it, and then rubs...
Enough already with "Game of Thrones," "Empire," "True Detective" and all those attention-grabbing shows! It's time to give props to the sturdy series that don't pretend to revolutionize TV.…
Don’t let its perky title and the cute children in its cast fool you: "Fun Home" isn't a show for tourists. Based on Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, Lisa Kron...
At the very beginning of "Orphan Black," it felt as if its appeal was in its concept. One word: clones. Really, how cool is that? But it quickly became obvious...
You can't overstate how stunningly beautiful, how achingly well sung this new revival of "The King and I" is. A lifesize ship gracefully moves over the orchestra, and a Siamese...
You'd think the role of the titular ruler of Siam in the musical "The King and I" wouldn't have much leeway in terms of casting, but consider that it's been...
Psycho Hamlet, qu'est-ce que c'est? The least you can say about Peter Sarsgaard's performance as Shakespeare's vengeful prince is that it's fully committed " in every sense of the word....
Forget that "Finding Neverland" is set in 1904 London and that Kelsey Grammer plays a theater producer rather than a pedantic shrink: The show muscles in a "Cheers" joke. Surprisingly,...
As far as comedy goes, the most rewarding wedding is the one that goes off the rails. And so Broadway's new musical "It Shoulda Been You" piles on the mishaps...
“I thought I had something to say, but I don't," says a character in "Iowa." The same could be said of Jenny Schwartz's new play with music, which strains so...
If you watched Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere, you may have noticed the camera lingering on Daario Naharis after some naked exertions with Daenerys. But a shapely behind...
"Ghosts" packs an astounding amount of drama into just over an hour and a half " cheating and lying, bitterness and hypocrisy, venereal disease and crushed hopes, and that staple...
Anna Chlumsky displays serious comic chops on HBO's "Veep," in which she plays Amy Brookheimer, the title character's perpetually harried chief of staff. Yet the actress sounds a little surp…
Turns out the dominant character in the Clinton administration wasn't President Bill or First Lady Hillary, but Kenneth Starr. At least that's how it seems in "Clinton " The Musical,"...
The bad news is that the two plays that make up "Wolf Hall" will set you back six hours. Even worse is that they feel even longer. It's amazing that...
Jackson is a Harvard-educated African-American lawyer who just bought a home in a rough, Brownsville-type neighborhood. He has a reason, though: He grew up there. "In 10 years, this whole...
How do you solve a problem like "Gigi"? At first glance the Lerner and Loewe musical seemed ripe for a revival: The movie won a whopping nine Oscars in 1959,...
Don’t let his big eyes, tuft of red hair and argyle sweater fool you: Tyrone is a profane, horny, violent little psycho " and funny as hell, too. He's found...
Watching a couple duke it out works only if you also understand what drew them to each other in the first place. But in the new Broadway revival of David...
For a show about rock 'n' roll, "The Undeniable Sound of Right Now" is a little too well-behaved. Admittedly, this new play by Laura Eason ("Sex With Strangers," TV's "House...
Showbiz isn't all glamour and glitz. In the sharply written, beautifully acted "Music Hall," an aging diva reminisces about her days touring her song-and-dance act. Sometimes the stage was s…
People always complain that theater is too expensive. And it is " if you're referring to Broadway, with its $150 orchestra seats and its overpriced Theater District restaurants. But the...