Tootsie review at Marquis Theatre, New York " 'superb performances, ho-hum score'
Despite a rather flavourless score by David Yazbek, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tootsie, the film that scored Dustin Hoffman an Oscar nomination
Despite a rather flavourless score by David Yazbek, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tootsie, the film that scored Dustin Hoffman an Oscar nomination
Taylor Mac, the radically subversive theatre artist, and Nathan Lane, America's stage comedy sweetheart, make an unlikely pairing. Lane is the star
Adam Driver gives a sublimely physical performance in this Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 play. As a piece of writing Burn
In 2016, Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to the stage in King Lear at London's Old Vic. Now, she plays the
Should the US constitution be abolished? Playwright and star Heidi Schreck debates this issue in her improbably funny and deeply felt play,
Scott Ellis' revival of the Cole Porter musical unites the effervescent Kelli O'Hara with the rakish Will Chase for a production that
Off-Broadway's National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene began a century ago by bringing international theatre to the Yiddish-speaking population. Today it brings Yiddish theatre
Nothing has dulled Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sharp-edged, caustic, comedic solo show, Fleabag, since it premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. What has
Leah Nanako Winkler knew she wanted to be a writer when she was about seven. The playwright had been underestimated in her
Fox's broadcast of Jonathan Larson's cult 1990s musical Rent: Live ended up being Rent: Pre-Taped due to the injury of Brennin Hunt,
Sam Shepard's play about brotherly animosity and the mythical American West returns to Broadway in a kinetic production by James Macdonald featuring
The new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Moonlight, is set in the Charles R
This tends to be the place where I've kept track of my yearly theater stats. And this year felt like a lot of work so I counted out what I did.203 shows seen (not counting duplicate visits)2…
Though the familiar characters and central romance remain in Amy Heckerling's musical adaptation of her hit 1995 film, Clueless, the nostalgia factor
It's all about the work for New York's Lark theatre laboratory, which has helped develop Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and the careers of
With nostalgic tunes, kitsch design, and oodles of Bob Mackie sequins, The Cher Show is a suitably dazzling new jukebox musical based
For its current shows, the West Village's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has radically redesigned its auditorium and ditched half the seats. Its artistic
This new musical version of King Kong, roaring its way onto Broadway, features some spectacular puppetry. But though the ape is great
This new play about a fact-checking dispute at a magazine feels incredibly timely. Exploring the relationship between fact and fiction, journalism and the
In his startling, minimalist reimagining of Oklahoma!, director Daniel Fish foregrounds the carnality and violence that has always formed part of this
Richard Bean's broad, and at times crude, comedy, The Nap, premiered in Sheffield, the home of UK snooker, in 2016. The play's plot
It would be a real thrill to see Janet McTeer do Hamlet. In Theresa Rebeck's new play Bernhardt/Hamlet we get glimpses, though
Sleight of hand: Vincent Gambini's magic show is an exploration of political deception. The post Edinburgh fringe review: The Chore of Enchantment at Underbelly appeared first on Exeunt Maga…
Writer-performer Molly Taylor unpacks the lives of the couple she grew up down the street from. A jumble of memories, objects and
Linking together several non-linear storytelling strands, Never Vera Blue by Alexandra Wood addresses the experience of domestic abuse and violence. From subtle