It's obvious what the secret sauce is in Daft Punk's mega-hit "Get Lucky": Nile Rodgers' fantastically infectious guitar riff. The masked Frenchmen know it, too, and they're returning the fa…
When people ask me if I have a pet, I say yes. When they inevitably ask whether it's a cat or a dog, I proudly answer, "Neither " it's a...
The new comedy "Verité" has a lot going for it, like an appealingly weird vibe and a very funny lead performance by Anna Camp (late of "Fever Pitch" and "True...
For months now, a deafening buzz has surrounded "Hamilton." Rumor had it that creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda " a Tony winner for "In the Heights" " would apply his...
Mass shootings have become tragically common over the past decade, but that doesn't make them any easier to understand. Claire (Neve McIntosh), a Protestant minister and the lead character o…
Sometimes you don't realize an unlikely combination will work until you try it. Chocolate and salt: Who knew? Same goes for the casting of Nathan Lane " one of his...
Pray you never get embroiled in an office war " stuck in a room with your foe, day after day, trying to figure out how to defeat them before they...
There’s the shabby-chic hipster New York we see on cable TV " and then there's Stephen Adly Guirgis' New York, the gritty place where the playwright grew up. The city...
Casting the perky, versatile Christina Bianco in the middling comedy "Application Pending" is like driving a Porsche around the block at 20 mph. What a waste of resources! While theatergoers…
The most wholesome musical in town happens to be about porn. Despite its explicit language (not to mention catchy ditties about things like "Waiting for Wood"), "Pretty Filthy" is winningly.…
"Texas in Paris" is described as a play with music, but the balance between the two parts is lopsided. The musical bits are strong " unsurprisingly, since one of the...
The Encores! series is famous for bringing back musical chestnuts that often haven't roasted on a New York stage in decades. Lo and behold, here comes Tommy Tune! While he's...
The title of this new play is a Syrian expression for a perfect dice roll in backgammon. The reference may be meant to suggest a taut battle between opponents going...
For every "The Office," there are five cases of "Gracepoint," or an American remake of a successful foreign show that inevitably goes down in flames. Actually, it usually goes down...
Every other year, Taylor Swift takes her magic wand and anoints the acts who will open her new tour. Now she's just announced that Haim, the LA rock band featuring...
More than its plot or score, what you'll remember from the Poe musical "Nevermore" is its look. Bretta Gerecke's costumes, makeup and props are part Edward Gorey, part Tim Burton...
As soon as it opened back in September, "You Can't Take It With You" became the funniest show on Broadway. The wildly talented ensemble took hold of Kaufman and Hart's...
There’s no way you'd confuse off-Broadway's new "Into the Woods" revival with the movie version. The latter boasts big-name stars like Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick, swelling musical …
Twisted head games, drinking and drugging, ugly crying: Halley Feiffer goes for melodrama at full throttle in her new play, "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard." One minute you're...
When Season 1 of "The Fall" debuted on Netflix last year, it pretty much flew in under the radar. Yet another moody BBC thriller? Ho-hum. Then word got around that...
Clint Eastwood isn't happy to see you " and yes, that's a gun in his pocket. His latest directorial effort, "American Sniper," is doing gangbusters at the box office. Granted,...
The making of a Thanksgiving feast is often compared to a marathon. For Kate Benson, it's more like a basketball game. Unfortunately, the playwright's whimsical new show can be as...
The rambunctious new musical "Honeymoon in Vegas" is old-fashioned and proud of it. A big orchestra pumps out a brassy, melodic score that nods to Sinatra's ba-da-bing days. The wacky...
Rarely has quantum physics felt as romantic, as lively as it does in Broadway's "Constellations." The lives of two people, beautifully played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson " who...
When candidates the for state's attorney, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) and Frank Prady (David Hyde Pierce), finally had their TV debate on Sunday night's episode of "The Good Wife," …