TOTAL MISFIRE
The new musical using songs and poems from late rapper Tupac Shakur is a complete mess.
The new musical using songs and poems from late rapper Tupac Shakur is a complete mess.
Austin Pendleton s production takes some serious liberties, some of which will confuse the audience.
Steven Levenson’s sober-minded drama explores the personal consequences of white-collar corruption.
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Clifford Odets’ rarely seen 1949 drama is a complete misfire.
In Lucy Bailey’s excessively violent production, animalistic warfare is displayed from the very beginning.
This Pearl Theatre Company production of Chekhov, though uneven, is respectful of the text.
Stephen Spinella and Denis O’Hare alternate nights at the helm of this mesmerizing one-man riff on Homer’s 15,000-line epic poem.
It is surprising that this slow-paced, sentimental biography of Charlie Chaplin made it to Broadway.
A corny framing of the plot sets this eagerly anticipated musical up for a crash and burn that the actors have no chance to save.
Although the play runs out of steam at a point, this cast of three does a terrific job.
The past year s musicals have seen some quality cast albums, not only from the big Broadway productions but from some smaller companies as well.
Making a big-budget, large-scale musical based on a classic novel by no means guarantees success.
Donald Margulies’ three-act family drama comes across as muddled and predictable, not nearly as good as his other work.
David Mamet s painfully didactic The Anarchist makes theatergoers wonder what happened to the ink in his pen since his better plays.
Opera fans will hardly recognize Peter Brook’s bold adaptation.
The newly constructed, 230-ton, 975-seat theater reconstructs the original Globe.
Revivals of Tennessee Williams’ 1955 bedroom drama continue to fizzle, despite an excellent performance by Scarlett Johansson .
It was the second best moment of theater I've witnessed this entire summer, second only to Bernadette Peters' rendition of "Send in the Clowns."
Daniel Sullivan’s enjoyable but rather lackluster production takes place in the Old South.
Marin Mazzie, although an excellent actress and singer, is just plain wrong as a replacement for Ripley.
Cast albums from the past year capture some of the magical musical moments from Broadway.
In keeping with its practice, the Irish Repertory Theatre revives a rarely seen musical, with a few adjustments.
This Broadway revival of Godspell will feel to some as inauthentic as a plastic Jesus figurine stuck on a dashboard.
David Staller directs George Bernard Shaw s four-act play as a tight, singular piece of theater.