In the Broadway musical "Annie," the plucky red-headed orphan sings "Maybe." She imagines what it would be like to have a home and parents of her own. Then she finds out for real after Daddy…
"Giant." 4 stars. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Through Dec. 2. Tickets: $85-$95; (212) 967-7555. Gazing out at their vast Texas spread, cattle …
The reality about love triangles is that there's always more three people involved. Kids and spouses are often collateral damage. One o…
Where's the real Aimee Semple McPherson " the subject of the musical "Scandalous" " when you need her?
There are huge boobs in the porn-themed play "The Performers," which opened Wednesday at the Longacre. That's not only a reference to one character's Double-G fake jugs, but to all …
Change doesn't come easy " or without pain and a price. It's true for individuals. And nations.
Girls act like boys. Relatives double-cross kin. And a deadly puzzle stays unsolved until the audience gets in on the act. So it goes in Rupert Holmes' Tony-winning 1986 musical, "T…
3 stars 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Through Jan. 13, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65th St.) Tickets: $75-$85; (212) 239-6200 --- 3…
Leave me alone! The increasingly glum Russian at the center of Chekhov's "Ivanov" is constantly telling people to back off.
1. "Sorry" (Public Theater) On Election Day, a family takes stock and makes hard choices. …
It's been nearly three years " too long " since Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin ("Finian's Rainbow") has woven her silky voice around a new musical role in New York.
'I can only imagine what we must sound like," says one of the Apple siblings after a heated exchange in "Sorry."
New York can always use a dose of optimism. Considering current events, that goes double now. In that sense, the enjoyable new production of "Annie" at the Palace Theatre arrives on…
In "The Whale," Charlie's days are numbered because his weight is off the charts. He tips the scale at 600 pounds in Samuel D. Hunter's deeply affecting and piercingly amusing…
Boxers or briefs? Odd as it sounds, that nosy question resonates in not one but two politically and religiously charged new Off-Broadway plays that opened in the last week and a half.
Theater director Ruben Santiago-Hudson looked to a local sculptor versed in the intricacies of clay, bronze and black history to fine-tune his revival of "The Piano Lesson." "Ruben called me…
1. "The Performers" (Longacre Theatre) A new comedy about fantasies, friendship and, well, porn. 2.
Faye Dunaway's 1966 face, projected as big as a billboard, stares out, frozen, at the moment just before she's killed in "Bonnie and Clyde" as part of the scenery in "House for Sale."
"The Tempest" blew into the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday. From the get-go, it reminded us that a challenge of staging Shakespeare's tale of revenge and reconciliation is conjuring the furio…
Mourning becomes electric " and curiously amusing " in the small-scale comedy "Wild With Happy" at the Public Theater. Written by and starring Colman Domingo, the play concerns Gil,…
Pakistani-American author Ayad Akhtar follows his acclaimed novel "American Dervish" with "Disgraced," an intense and intelligent but inherently flawed drama. Spanning six months be…
Yesterday her life was filled with rain. Now Sunny " an irresistible shelter mutt who went from Death Row to a starring role on Broadway in "Annie" " is living it up in her airy Washington H…
1. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Booth Theatre) Scenes from a marriage, Albee-style, in a first-class revival.
Man up! That's Stephanie J. Block's job in playing a male impersonator and the title character in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," starting previews tonight at Studio 54.
It takes steel you-know-whats to write a comedy about terrorists determined to blow up the Empire State Building and NASDAQ. So give Jon Kern some credit for his intriguing but inco…