A well-crafted, if depressing commentary on human nature, Stephen Adly Guirgis' "Between Riverside and Crazy" thrives on the strength of robust dialogue and complex performances.
The first mainstream musical based on the catalog of a rap star has a rich and vivid score, but a woefully thin story backing it up.
The lives of a sheltered teen and a fragile runaway intersect in Sarah Treem's new drama set at an underground shelter for abused women.
Playwrights Horizons offers an often magical, sometimes meandering musical with such a terrific cast you can overlook its shortcomings.
Bess Wohl's new work at 2nd Stage Uptown is a thought-provoking, but unevenly seasoned comedy about "sandwich artists" in a suburban strip mall.
The stellar "poperetta" conceived by one-time Talking Head David Byrne is a history lesson by way of Studio 54.
The Tony host and sitcom star is the reigning king and queen of Broadway, thanks to a dazzling turn as the transgendered East German rock star.
"The Cripple of Inishmaan" makes an appealing Broadway transfer, with the "Harry Potter" star as the wounded dreamer of the title.
Two gifted actors make memorable debuts in a brutal new staging of the American lit classic "Of Mice and Men."
The five-time Tony winner interprets more than a dozen classic recordings in a play that should appeal to even the casual Billie Holiday fan.
"Scrubs" star and screenwriter Zach Braff sticks to his guns as a proud playwright in the snazzy new Jazz Age-set musical.
Will Eno's frustrating new comedy illustrates that we can talk about our problems until the cows come home, but our mundane lives will still be there tomorrow.
The cult film about a gang of nasty high school girls incurs some damage in the leap from screen to stage.
Terrence McNally glances over his shoulder and then looks straight ahead in his 20th Broadway play, which features Broadway's first legally married gay couple.
There's no more turntable, but this is the same musical about salvation, romance and rebellion you already love"with a memorable Broadway debut by Ramin Karimloo.
The singer-songwriter dealt with her mother's descent into dementia the only way she knew how"she wrote songs about it.
The new musical starring Andy Karl and directed by Alex Timbers makes some missteps, but has plenty of heart"and a knockout finale.
You'll see shades of Walter White in the "Breaking Bad" star's salty 36th president, but Robert Schenkkan's cluttered political drama isn't for everyone.
Two actors with a romantic history are thrown together in an absurd comedy with a serious message from the two-time Pulitzer finalist.
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale will make you swoon and sigh in the Jason Robert Brown-Marsha Norman collaboration that first debuted in Williamstown.
Jonatha Brooke's heartfelt, often hilarious new play chronicles the "daily theater" of caring for a loved one with dementia.
Veteran TV producer recounts his experience at Ground Zero in the form of an epic poem inspired by Dante.
Yankees sports fantasy by "jock" playwright Eric Simonson gets a transfer to Broadway and a new leading man, but it's still the same heavy-handed story.
The "Will & Grace" star makes a winning Broadway debut in John Patrick Shanley's 10th play for the Manhattan Theatre Club.
The British film star plays a condemned woman in the Roundabout's dreary revival of the Expressionist drama by Sophie Treadwell.