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The period-piece costume drama gets yet another revival, well acted all around.
The period-piece costume drama gets yet another revival, well acted all around.
David Auburn crafts a bio-drama of scandal, sex and secrets around the life of influential columnist Joseph Alsop.
A 29-year-old man is torn between two lovers of different sexes in a bare-bones staging of Mike Bartlett’s new play.
Although Dave Malloy’s festive electro-pop opera has been transferred to a larger venue, the players still mix intimately with the audience.
This two-man slapstick retelling of the Harry Potter stories has a wholesome charm to it that may appeal to Potter fans and non-fans alike.
Someone needs to tell Ethan Coen to stop writing awful one-act plays.
Bill T. Jones’ explosive tribute to Nigerian icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti comes back to town for an encore.
Donna Murphy s comic delivery and powerhouse voice are on full display. Unfortunately the play as a whole is nothing to sing about.
Pam MacKinnon’s production savors all the intellectual vigor and black comedy of Bruce Norris’ play and makes for a successful upgrade to Broadway.
Despite a lacklusted Broadway season in some respects, this year s Tony nominations feature plenty of praiseworthy work.
While the plot of the musical moves backwards in time, the success of Merrily We Roll Along has gotten only better as time moves forward.
Director Karin Coonrod makes some odd choices in this rarely performed piece of Shakespeare.
Edward Albee’s sinister, surreal and altogether puzzling 1980 play The Lady from Dubuque gets an unexpected revival.
Most surprising at this year s awards was Kinky Boots winning Best New Musical over Matilda .
Jonathan Pryce plays an unpredictable homeless vagabond in Christopher Morahan’s spot-on revival of Harold Pinter’s 1960 classic.
It is truly our good fortune that the entire original English cast has traveled with the Max Roberts’ detailed production to Broadway. They are all individually excellent and make for …
An excess of new dialogue and sub-par singing make these four hours really drag.
The star power of Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t change the fact that this is a dull play.
Eric Simonson s latest sports tribute is just as uninteresting and unchallenging as the ones that came before it.
In keeping with its practice, the Irish Repertory Theatre revives a rarely seen musical, with a few adjustments.
Alisa Solomon’s book provides wonderful insight into the works of Sholem Aleichem and what Fiddler means to both Jews and non-Jews.
Julie Taymor she lets her imagination overwhelm a production that pleases the eye but may frustrate those who just want to see a Shakespeare comedy.
A bleak, bloodstained piece of gothic Southern pulp by Beth Henley inexplicably attracts a top-shelf cast.
Even those who find The Sound of Music to be too saccharine for their taste buds (and I proudly include myself in that category) are likely to be won over by the Paper Mill Playhouse's beaut…
Just a few weeks after the premature death of composer Marvin Hamlisch, New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse is paying proper tribute to him with a sparkling revival of his Pulitzer Prize-winn…