Would Showtime's "Episodes" have more traction if it didn't star Matt LeBlanc? Very likely. LeBlanc will never be cool. The show treads very similar ground as "The Comeback," from fellow...
It’s confirmed " the '90s are back! Exhibit A: The most anticipated show of the winter stars Courtney Love in ripped jeans and a plaid flannel shirt. Oh sure, some...
There may be a biting comedy lurking somewhere in "Dying for It," but it's really hard to find it in this adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's "The Suicide." British playwright Moira...
'WINNERS and Losers" starts off as innocuously as a fun parlor game, with its writers, James Long and Marcus Youssef, sitting on either end of a long table, debating what...
While Broadway sleeps through its holiday hangover, the cool kids are taking over the city. One relatively new member of the envelope-pushing derby is Prototype, dedicated to new music for...
A demonic hand puppet. Levitating beds. A live rat. Scandi angst rotating on a giant turntable. Theater didn't need big-name stars to blow your mind in 2014 " though it...
Get me the hell out of the frickin' woods! Who'd have thought Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" would become such a phenomenon? Hype around the starry movie adaptation, out Dec....
It may not be as famous as Harlem's Cotton Club, but Cafe Society made its mark on the New York jazz scene of the 1930s and '40s " not least...
When "The Last Ship" opened on Broadway a few months ago, many people were confused: Wait a minute " where's Sting? Though he wrote the score, Sting hasn't been onstage...
“Pocatello" is Samuel D. Hunter's first play since he was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant this year. So the expectations are now a little different than they were when Hunter...
Technically speaking, "Every Brilliant Thing" is a solo show. But actor Jonny Donahoe spends a lot of time chatting with various people " his character's parents, teacher and partner. You...
Persistence, thy name is "Soul Doctor"! Every time you think this good-natured but clunky biomusical about Shlomo Carlebach, the singing rabbi, is down for the count, it pops up again....
Viondra Denninger, the spaceship captain's wife in Syfy's new futuristic miniseries, "Ascension," is a handful " scheming, icy-blond and prone to bodacious butt cleavage. Clearly, this calle…
The best place to see "Christmas With the Crawfords" isn't a theater, but in the back of a small, festive bar. The show's campy drag humor and fleeting moments of...
The Park Avenue Armory's Drill Hall is gigantic " a 55,000-square-foot space that begs to be filled with awe-inspiring projects. Just last June the venue hosted a production of "Macbeth"...
“The Invisible Hand" gives us guns, terrorism, violence, hostages " even a daring escape attempt with nail clippers. But don't worry, there's nothing here to send your blood pressure s…
Bradley Cooper is currently setting Broadway on fire playing the title role in "The Elephant Man" " a deformed Victorian chap whom the erstwhile Sexiest Man Alive plays without makeup...
No wonder Bradley Cooper picked "The Elephant Man" for his return to Broadway. This is a labor of love for the star, who chose it for his acting school master's...
Truman Capote's 1956 short story "A Christmas Memory" is one of his most popular works " it's been made into TV specials, radio plays, an opera and this musical. But...
Nothing went horribly wrong during NBC's live telecast of the musical "Peter Pan." Allison Williams didn't embarrass herself in the cross-dressing title role. The wires held up during the fl…
“The Illusionists" seems so much like a Vegas revue that you half expect that it comes with an all-you-can eat buffet. And when we say Vegas, we mean something old-school...
When "Cabaret" opened in April, Alan Cumming dialed it up to 11 as the provocative Emcee of the show's seedy Kit Kat Club. He was the production's darkly charismatic guide,...
Warning: Spoilers ahead Was anybody really surprised that Beth (Emily Kinney) went down in the midseason finale of "The Walking Dead"? That poor waif has had a target on her...
Annaleigh Ashford is funny as hell. The gifted comedienne brought down the house nightly (and netted a Tony nod) in Cyndi Lauper's "Kinky Boots." She's even more hilarious in her...
Lypsinka has been a New York icon for almost 30 years. And she's never uttered a single word. Not that the flamboyant, highly theatrical redhead has nothing to say. It's...