The program for "Colin Quinn Unconstitutional" claims the show is "a new comedy." That's a bit misleading. Sure, there's a director (Rebecca A. Trent) and basic staging: a lectern, a kind of…
Last fall's most exciting sensation wasn't a big Broadway musical but a scrappy outsider sneaking in under the radar. At first glance, "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" looked lik…
Nomi Malone is back! In the 1995 camp classic "Showgirls," Elizabeth Berkley's psycho stripper climbed to the topless top of the Strip. Now at long last, Nomi's made her way to a pole near u…
Immersive and site-specific shows are hot right now, and "City Council Meeting" hits both of those sweet spots. Devised by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay and Aaron Landsman " all regulars on t…
The last time Philip Seymour Hoffman teamed up with playwright Bob Glaudini, they scored an unlikely hit with 2007's "Jack Goes Boating" " an affectionate depiction of so-called losers looki…
Broadway these days is specializing in famous people played by even more famous people: Tom Hanks as the tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, Bette Midler as super-agent Sue Mengers and Holland T…
Life and showbiz got uncomfortably close in "Bunty Berman Presents . . .," a likable but overlong new musical set in the demented world of Bollywood movies. As it happened, Erick Avari, the …
According to current conventional wisdom, 1936's "On Your Toes" could never cut it again on Broadway. After all, it features a goofy fun plot, songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and l…
There's no right or wrong way to approach "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)." Since the late 1960s, Richard Foreman has been creating cryptic, bizarre shows that can be compared on…
It's not fun being the newbie at a party where the other guests already know each other. You watch them chat about their jobs, laugh at old anecdotes, exchange updates about relationships " …
Drag queens and female impersonators have always had a place in theater. Just look at this year's Tonys, where several Best Actor nominees " Billy Porter in "Kinky Boots," Bertie Carvel in "…
In Mike Bartlett's off-Broadway hit "Cock" " alternatively titled, for weaker hearts and newspapers, "The Cockfighting Play" " a man couldn't make up his mind between his boyfriend and his f…
The Transport Group has had great success matching shows with unusual settings " placing the basketball musical "Lysistrata Jones" in an actual gym, letting the gay-male bitch-a-thon "The Bo…
Talk about going out with a bang! Broadway's ending its season with a sensational revival of "Pippin" " a thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle filled with daredevil acrobatics. Steph…
For her first Broadway appearance since "Clams on the Half Shell" 38 years ago, Bette Midler split the difference between playing it safe and taking a risk. Instead of trotting out her hits …
David Byrne and big-beat master Fatboy Slim's new musical, "Here Lies Love," owes less to the Great American Songbook than to the disco. With their booming bass and propulsive rhythms, the s…
Few shows are as deceptively simple as "The Trip to Bountiful." Horton Foote's play is about an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, who's dead set on seeing her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas, …
The narrator in Broadway's "The Testament of Mary" didn't have the easiest relationship with her late son " she can't even bring herself to call him by his name. He tended to ignore her and…
A word of warning before you sit down for this latest version of "Macbeth" on Broadway: read or reread Shakespeare's tragedy, or at least the playbill's synopsis. Because if you're not famil…
The climax of "Jekyll & Hyde " The Musical" is the infamous "Confrontation" scene, the peak of the evening-long battle between good Dr. Henry Jekyll and evil Edward Hyde. The trick, of cour…
Considering its agitated gestation, it's amazing how smooth "Orphans" is. During rehearsals, actor Shia LaBeouf had well-publicized " by himself " arguments with co-star Alec Baldwin and dir…
The downtown actress Hannah Cabell is a whiz at physical comedy, especially when it's driven by manic desperation. This comes in handy in Allison Moore's new play, "Collapse," in which her c…
If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you may see Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties" as warmly catering to the Manhattan Theatre Club's audience. If your glass is half-empty,…
Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is about disillusion and compromise, but it's not a pity party. Fueled by Odets' loathing for Hollywood, this hard-boiled 1949 play packs a wallop. At least i…
If your public personality is the same as your personal one, you can safely be yourself, right? Not so for Nathan Lane's character in Broadway's "The Nance." His Chauncey Miles, a burlesque …