'Ulster American' Review: Matthew Broderick as a Star Blinded by Privilege
David Ireland's satire follows a Hollywood actor whose cluelessness leads to a combustible confrontation.
David Ireland's satire follows a Hollywood actor whose cluelessness leads to a combustible confrontation.
Joined by Daniel Radcliffe, Groff stars in the hit Broadway production of the Sondheim musical. And there are (count 'em) three productions of "The Importance of Being Earnest" this month.
Henry Darger, a recluse who left behind thousands of wild illustrations upon his death, is the subject of fascination in this one-man show.
Hugh Jackman returns in "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes," Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays Truman Capote, and Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub star in an "Antigone" riff.
Opening a decade after "Fun Home" debuted on Broadway, the new musical "Starstruck" has a lesbian protagonist and a female creative team. That still seems radical.
A strong cast stars in Lauren Yee's new play, part of a cycle of works about the collisions between 20th-century communism and pop culture.
This bio play about Marcel Marceau, which delves into his part in the French Resistance, stars Ethan Slater (yes, that's Boq from the "Wicked" movies).
Kathleen Chalfant, Elizabeth Marvel, April Matthis and other actors deliver top-notch performances in a play that leaves questions unanswered.
A revival of a 1964 musical, which puts a supernatural spin on a Noël Coward play, features a starry cast: Andrea Martin, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale and Katrina Lenk.
Opera Philadelphia's latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond.
She watched the movie as a teenager, now the star of "School Spirits" and "Cobra Kai" is playing the acid-tongued queen bee Heather Chandler onstage.
Other picks include "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and "Lazarus," featuring the music of David Bowie.
The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on "What to Wear" in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.
Several festivals run across New York this month, but none are as big and eclectic as Under the Radar, founded in 2005. Here are our picks for what to see.
Matthew Broderick plays Tartuffe and David Cross his naïve prey in this Lucas Hnath adaptation of a 17th-century French comedy classic.
June Squibb stars in the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison's meditation on grief and the nature of human and artificial intelligence.
Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.
"It's almost like a movie set," said the actor, now in the Christmas film "Oh. What. Fun.," "and I have to pretend I'm working, too."
James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of "Hedda Gabler." He told us about a week in his cultural life.
A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.
Adult actors play fierce middle-school spellers in a wonderful revival of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's musical.
This month's picks include a ravishing Nyong'o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff.
The Oscar winner takes on a lovely yet tricky role in a Stephen Schwartz musical that never made it to Broadway back in 1976.
Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.
The Off Broadway shows "Hannah Senesh," "Jewish Plot" and "Playing Shylock" take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.