278 stories by "Erik Haagensen"
Christopher Fry's blank-verse comedy-drama about the meaning and purpose of life won't be everyone's cup of tea, but this scrappy production succeeds in making a case for it.
David Zippel's beautifully structured, exquisitely executed revue is a dry-martini delight that should leave everyone, from aficionados of Broadway's coolest composer to the uninitiated, d…
While it's always a pleasure to encounter James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's woundingly beautiful, vibrantly theatrical meditation on mortality, director Eric Schaeffer's wham-bam-thank-…
This arty, misbegotten musical version of Bernard Shaw's "Candida" turns his sociopolitical romcom into a perfervid romantic triangle. The result can only be described as unbearably preci…
Tony Kushner’s latest is full of fascinating people and plenty of interesting story, but as absorbing as it is, the play could still use further refinement and focus.
Metropolitan Playhouse hits a high note with director Alex Roe's swift and vivid account of Arthur Arent's 1938 Living Newspaper play on the subject of substandard housing in America.
Clocking in at a bloated two and a half hours, this tribute to New York City nightclubs never manages to escape from meander mode, despite a few high points.
Laurel Haines' new black comedy about a dystopian future makes for a reasonably diverting 80 minutes, though one can't help noticing that the script is awfully thin.
Larry Kramer's towering American tragedy is getting a letter-perfect production from directors Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe. If you see only one play this year, make it "The Normal Heart."
The pugnacious Nina Arianda claims Billie Dawn for her own in director Doug Hughes' loving and intelligent revival of Garson Kanin's classic comedy.
If Alisha Silver's play has trouble connecting its dots and feels more like a series of characters sketches than a complete work, it still marks her as a writer to watch.
Jez Butterworth's play falls in the tradition of works lionizing the nonconforming outsider whose outrageous behavior masks a pure heart that by contrast proves the mendacity of the socie…
The talented Christopher Shinn seems to have set himself a difficult task with this irritating offering: writing a play largely devoid of dramatic conflict.
A ramshackle yet agreeable film comedy with plausibility issues has here become an even more ramshackle and outlandish musical comedy that consistently diminishes its source.
Stephen Schwartz's first opera, though not without its flaws, proves him to be a first-rate musical dramatist and is a welcome addition to the modern opera canon.
There are 20 names in the producing credits for Matthew Lombardo's poorly written drama, starring Kathleen Turner. All I kept thinking was, "Didn't any of them see 'Looped'?"
Gloriously theatrical and almost unbearably moving, this testimonial to the power of honest sentiment from Britain's National Theater is a never-to-be-forgotten theatrical experience.
David Greenspan's new play is a 70-minute slice of joy about the rebirth of the human spirit. I left the theater more than a little bit in love.
Finding no compelling reason for its characters to sing, this synthetic musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg's 2002 film ranks as the Broadway season's biggest disappointment to date.
This 2007 Olivier Award–winning play from Debbie Tucker Green is a thoroughly disquieting, relentlessly penetrating work of art. It's essential and stunning theater.
Carl Forsman's production of Michael Frayn's 1984 drama isn't perfect, but it's intriguing enough to hold your interest and keep you thinking.
Author-director Derek Ahonen and a dynamite four-person cast deliver this surreal black comedy of co-dependent lesbians and their teenage cannibal daughter with precision and panache.
Jeremy Lawrence seems born to play the great Tennessee Williams, but this one-man show stitched out of the playwright's journals and works is too diffuse and lacking in dramatic purpose.
Opera star Nathan Gunn is making his Café Carlyle debut with a beguilingly intimate set that feels as if you're sharing an evening salon of song in his home.
Sharr White's taut, incisive puzzle play, beautifully directed by Joe Mantello and featuring a raw and riveting Laurie Metcalf, tells a harrowing and moving tale.
