Bill Pullman and Holly Hunter are so intense, so scarily good in "Sticks and Bones" that at times it's painful to watch them " but it's impossible to forget them....
If you love Broadway's classic scores, there's no missing the New York Philharmonic's semi-staged versions. So while the new "Show Boat" doesn't always land, there are plenty of swoon-worthy…
Broadway has a spotty history when it comes to TV commercials " remember the howler for "The Bridges of Madison County"? It doesn't help that live theater can look awkward...
It’s a parent's worst nightmare " to have a child taken away. Yet the American mom in "The Oldest Boy" is kind of OK with the situation, once she's past...
To paraphrase Taylor Swift, haters gonna hate hate hate . . . and everybody else gonna buy buy buy. Surfing on a tsunami-size wave of hype, social-media hustle and product plac…
Marissa, the sassy daughter of Alan Cumming's Eli Gold, hasn’t been on "The Good Wife" all that much, yet she's become a beloved supporting character. Happily, the curly-haired s…
Tom Stoppard plays like "The Coast of Utopia" and "Arcadia" are reliably smart and witty, with intricate structures " parallel stories, jumps in time and place " that flatter audiences' e…
While "It's Only a Play" is breaking box-office records on Broadway " a textbook example of starry headliners trumping mediocre material " you may want to check out author Terrence...
The lead character in the drama "Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" is facing a tough choice: Should he join the Confederate Army or not?...
You want to love Sting's "The Last Ship." It's a serious-minded show with a new score, not a jukebox of musty hits. It even offers an original story, inspired by...
Fans of "The Good Wife" have a special fondness for the show's judges. Almost every Sunday night, the popular CBS series features a judge " and they're usually played by...
“Disgraced" was far from perfect when it opened off-Broadway two years ago, but it worked up to a point. Aasif Mandvi, of "The Daily Show," was astringently effective as a...
“The Fortress of Solitude" relies so much on musical pastiche that at times it feels like an old K-Tel commercial, this one pitching "The Super Hits of '80s New York."...
Unlikely as it may seem, off-Broadway's "Deliverance" is indeed a stage version of the original "Men vs. Wild" story, where four city slickers on a canoe trip end up battling...
For a textbook example of how to botch a great subject, see "Billy & Ray." It's not that the show's terrible. Rather it's dull. Dishwater dull. Stare-into-space-while-the-clock-ticks dul…
Quick: Who's one of the most produced contemporary playwrights in Europe? The answer is Sarah Kane, whose small output belies her iconic status in her native England and especially on...
The return of FBI Agent Lana Delaney (Jill Flint) on "The Good Wife" Sunday night brought out the best in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), as everybody's favorite investigator was back to...
In addition to its superb plotting and characterization, "The Good Wife" is justly famous for an exquisite wardrobe that helps tell the story. The Post continues to explore this side...
Chances are, the prospect of a two-hour-long, one-woman show about Emily Dickinson won't send your pulse racing. Nor, for that matter, would seeing "The Belle of Amherst" performed by "Nip/T…
Three excitable sailors enjoy a 24-hour leave in the beloved 1944 classic "On the Town." You know the score, literally: "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down," our seadogs...
Forget texting and Tumblr: The ebullient new musical "Found" is a throwback to the good old days when reminders were scribbled on scraps of paper, kiss-offs on Post-Its, excuses on...
Dave Malloy's pop-rock musical "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" was an unlikely hit, an adaptation of "War and Peace" that started in a tiny theater, attracted a...
Sometimes a set overshadows its show. That's the case with "Generations" at Soho Rep. The tiny Tribeca company is known for radically reconfiguring its space for every production, and this...
The male lawyers on "The Good Wife" may be aces on the stand, but none of them qualifies as hot. Seriously, who'd want to peel off any of those milquetoasts'...
"I've been waiting all my life for somebody to see me." "When you know better, you do better." "I needed to get connected to me." Lines like these belong on...