There must be something in the cultural moment because two major and starry revivals of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" are opening this week. On Broadway, Roundabout's production is helmed by…
There are no guarantees of success when attempting to stage ambitious new work. If one were seeking proof that the theater can be a fickle muse and that past accomplishment is no insurance a…
The layered and strategic structure underpinning Heidi Schreck's "What The Constitution Means To Me" could easily be underestimated. That is because the wacky and warm Schreck, who describes…
Much has been made of "Be More Chill's" unusual path to Broadway. Originally produced to middling response at New Jersey's Two River Theater, the resulting cast album fueled a large cult fol…
Spiraling in the light, fog stealthily transforms schoolboys in their locker room into living sculptures, accompanied only by the insistent atonal plinking of dripping taps in the offstage s…
"All rise!" is the exhortation upon which Aaron Sorkin's new adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" ends, and, sure enough, before the curtain could completely fall, almost all of the audienc…
The Vegas-style entertainment show "The Illusionists" has returned to Broadway in time for the holidays. Unfortunately this latest iteration, the group's fourth appearance on Broadway, offer…
"Make 'em laugh, then make a point!" Borrowing a cultural meme to describe the new musical "The Prom" seems fair game because the show extensively parodies multiple Broadway musical conventi…
In "The New One," which has transferred to Broadway after a sold-out run off-Broadway this past summer writer and comedian Mike Birbiglia improbably begins the evening by explaining that he …
Seeing the original "Torch Song Trilogy" off-Broadway in 1982 remains an indelible theater-going memory " so much so that I approached the current Broadway transfer after the acclaimed reviv…
Playing the great Belle Époque actress Sarah Bernhardt, who is herself, preparing to play Hamlet, Janet McTeer proves to be a woman not only for all seasons, but particularly and triumph…
"Da, da!" when translated as "Yes, yes!" is a fittingly celebratory salutation to greet the sparkling and incisive revival of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" which has arrived at the American Ai…
If massive success on Broadway could ever be a foregone conclusion, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" would indubitably be the show to bet on. The two-part play has arrived on Broadway aft…
The challenges that all of us must confront in order to achieve meaningful human connection is the central theme of Mark Medoff's play "Children of a Lesser God." How can we overcome the obs…
Life is never simple. Nor is trying to figure out what kind of lives we aspire to lead. Even if we can decide what it is we want to become, how to achieve that outcome remains an ongoing puz…
Jimmy Buffett believers, also known as "Parrotheads," are going to have a whale of a good time at "Escape to Margaritaville” which opened at the Marquis Theatre on Thursday night. More…
John Lithgow is a mighty fine actor, and an all-around decent fellow judging from two hours spent in his company at his solo show, "John Lithgow: Stories By Heart." In the show, Lithgow prov…
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." So wrote 17th-century playwright William Congreve. With that in mind, simply bundle up your cares and w…
A new kind of cockeyed optimist has arrived at the Palace Theatre in the form of SpongeBob SquarePants, the indefatigably cheery anthropomorphic hero of the globally successful Nickelodeon a…
In spite of significant limitations, it would be churlish not to acknowledge the ambitious aims and wide-ranging scope of "A Latin History For Morons", a solo show written and performed by J…
The opening of "The Band's Visit" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, after a triumphant off-Broadway run last spring, is very good news for many reasons. At its best, theater helps us fill a de…
"Anastasia," ("The New Broadway Musical" in this case) is a fictional reimagining of the fate of the youngest daughter of the last Czar of Russia. Bolsheviks executed the real Anastasia, alo…
What a peculiar piece of confectionary is the new musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne on Sunday night. Allegedly, the mu…
It is astonishing that the most recent opening at the Cort Theatre, "Indecent," marks the Broadway debut of its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Paula Vogel. A new play based on real events, "…
Leaving Lincoln Center on a beautiful spring Sunday afternoon after a performance of "Oslo," I was surprisingly engulfed by an uneasy disquiet. My reaction, I should hasten to make clear, is…