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Oscar winner Marion Cotillard plays the title role in the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Arhtur Honegger's classic French oratorio.read more
Loudon Wainwright III's one-man show combines his own songs with spoken word excerpts from his famed magazine columnist father's writingsread more
Mary-Louise Parker and Dennis Arndt star in this new play by the author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,' about the unlikely romance between a free-spirited woman and a…
Jesse Eisenberg stars in his new play about a would-be filmmaker scheming to destroy the relationship between his grade-school crush and her new fiance. read more
This musical adaptation of the 1998 Drew Barrymore movie receives its world premiere at New Jersey's largest regional theater, featuring a first-rate cast of Broadway veterans.read more
Jim Parsons plays the Almighty, delivering a revised version of the Ten Commandments in former 'Daily Show' head writer David Javerbaum's comedy.read more
No one plays intense, irascible char acters better than Mandy Patinkin. The former "Criminal Minds" actor is perfectly cast in Rinne Groff's "Compulsion," inspired by writer Meyer Levin's o…
A mere 2,000 or so perform ances later, "Our Sinatra" has returned to the swanky nightspot -- the Oak Room -- where it began 10 years ago. This well-traveled musical salute to Ol' Blue Eyes…
Michael Shannon fans often have to settle for seeing him in small doses: his brief, Oscar-nominated turn in "Revolutionary Road," his supporting role in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." But the br…
A country racked by in tense division be tween the right and left; character assassination by a biased press -- and ruthless political figures willing to do whatever it takes to achieve the…
A canny pairing of early and late one-acts by Harold Pinter, "The Collection & A Kind of Alaska," makes it clear that the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's talents only deepened over the yea…
The slight new musical "In Transit" is best appreciated on an autumn week end, when the MTA is so plagued by disruptions that any trip can turn into a voyage of "Odyssey"-like proportions.C…
Combining men in drag with a spoof of cheesy '50s-era sci-fi movies, "Devil Boys From Beyond" is like time-capsule camp. A hit at last year's Fringe Festival, its familiar brand of kitsch s…
Jacobean drama is so rarely performed on these shores that any halfway decent production is bound to attract serious theatergoers. So it's doubly satisfying that the enterprising Red Bull T…
The brilliant Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce bring whatever comic life there is to this spoof of 17th century theatrical conventions.
The character at the heart of "Carnival Round the Central Figure" doesn't look at all well. Lying in a hospital bed, his mouth slack, he has a ghastly pallor and dark eyes that make him loo…
Anyone who's seen Carol Channing in one of her recent appearances -- say, at the Kennedy Center Honors -- knows that she's remarkably spry for an almost-90-year-old. But she's even more dyn…
�Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark� may never get around to officially opening on Broadway. But no fewer than three new Spider-Man musicals opening this week are willing to go where th…
Times being what they are, it's comforting to know there are other jobs out there for theater critics. If one is to believe the fantastical events in Conor McPherson's "St. Nicholas," one c…
Part "Stomp," part "Blue Man Group" and part "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," "Momentum" is as infectious as it is derivative. This kinetic production from the Israel-based company …
Any doubts that the Irish are in love with words are quickly dispelled by "Mimic." The sheer torrent of language that Raymond Scannell spews out in his one-man show will leave you numb and b…
You may want to have a study guide handy during the Irish Rep's "Banished Children of Eve," a swirling historical drama that often feels like homework.Set during the 1863 New York Draft Rio…
'Are there more plots to unravel?" complains the title character of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," and he might as well be speaking for the audience. Luckily, the Fiasco Theater's charming new p…
You might want to avoid "Notes From Under ground" if you're feeling out of sorts -- because this blistering adaptation of Dostoevsky's 1864 novella could send you over the edge. Adapted by …
Let's hope the Café Car lyle stocks up on smell ing salts: The sheer amount of swooning at Paulo Szot's opening-night set made it clear that a new romantic idol has arrived. Fresh off his …
