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You'd think the role of the titular ruler of Siam in the musical "The King and I" wouldn't have much leeway in terms of casting, but consider that it's been...
Psycho Hamlet, qu'est-ce que c'est? The least you can say about Peter Sarsgaard's performance as Shakespeare's vengeful prince is that it's fully committed " in every sense of the word....
Forget that "Finding Neverland" is set in 1904 London and that Kelsey Grammer plays a theater producer rather than a pedantic shrink: The show muscles in a "Cheers" joke. Surprisingly,...
As far as comedy goes, the most rewarding wedding is the one that goes off the rails. And so Broadway's new musical "It Shoulda Been You" piles on the mishaps...
“I thought I had something to say, but I don't," says a character in "Iowa." The same could be said of Jenny Schwartz's new play with music, which strains so...
If you watched Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere, you may have noticed the camera lingering on Daario Naharis after some naked exertions with Daenerys. But a shapely behind...
"Ghosts" packs an astounding amount of drama into just over an hour and a half " cheating and lying, bitterness and hypocrisy, venereal disease and crushed hopes, and that staple...
Anna Chlumsky displays serious comic chops on HBO's "Veep," in which she plays Amy Brookheimer, the title character's perpetually harried chief of staff. Yet the actress sounds a little surp…
Turns out the dominant character in the Clinton administration wasn't President Bill or First Lady Hillary, but Kenneth Starr. At least that's how it seems in "Clinton " The Musical,"...
The bad news is that the two plays that make up "Wolf Hall" will set you back six hours. Even worse is that they feel even longer. It's amazing that...
Jackson is a Harvard-educated African-American lawyer who just bought a home in a rough, Brownsville-type neighborhood. He has a reason, though: He grew up there. "In 10 years, this whole...
How do you solve a problem like "Gigi"? At first glance the Lerner and Loewe musical seemed ripe for a revival: The movie won a whopping nine Oscars in 1959,...
Don’t let his big eyes, tuft of red hair and argyle sweater fool you: Tyrone is a profane, horny, violent little psycho " and funny as hell, too. He's found...
Watching a couple duke it out works only if you also understand what drew them to each other in the first place. But in the new Broadway revival of David...
For a show about rock 'n' roll, "The Undeniable Sound of Right Now" is a little too well-behaved. Admittedly, this new play by Laura Eason ("Sex With Strangers," TV's "House...
Showbiz isn't all glamour and glitz. In the sharply written, beautifully acted "Music Hall," an aging diva reminisces about her days touring her song-and-dance act. Sometimes the stage was s…
People always complain that theater is too expensive. And it is " if you're referring to Broadway, with its $150 orchestra seats and its overpriced Theater District restaurants. But the...
Radio City Music Hall's "New York Spring Spectacular" is a lot of show " all for something that feels like the most expensive visitors bureau commercial ever made. For starters,...
Today, New York celebrates the Fall of the Dark Lord Sauron. What, you didn't know about the anniversary of the demise of the big baddie from "The Lord of the...
Like Batman reboots, but not quite as often as Dracula, "A Star Is Born" returns to movie screens with regularity. Now Bradley Cooper is meant to make his directorial debut...
Action generally speaks louder than words " but silence says even more in "Small Mouth Sounds," Beth Wohl's wonderful, perceptive new play. Six strangers meet at a spiritual retreat on...
Heidi Holland, the heroine of Wendy Wasserstein's hit "The Heidi Chronicles," firmly believes that "all people deserve to fulfill their potential." The whole point of the play, which premier…
You have to mine for them, but Lerner and Lowe's Gold Rush musical " now lovingly revived at Encores! " is rife with shiny nuggets. Even with Keith Carradine leading...
Some of the spring's hottest shows have been irreverent spins on history, like the hip-hop bio-musical "Hamilton" and "An Octoroon," an alternately hilarious and searing look at slavery. "Po…
Remember when the star of "Cabaret" was whoever played the role of Kit Kat Klub chanteuse Sally Bowles? Well, it isn't this time. It's Alan Cumming's Emcee who owns the...
