Aisle View: Soggy Firecrackers by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Ace in the Hole by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Hearing Is Believing by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Nat Turner in Jail by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Richard Nelson, Back in the Kitchen by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Ramen And Pastrami by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Little Tin Music Box by Steven Suskin

On the Shelf: Mary Martin, Inside the Legend by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Riding the Rapids by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Connected In The City by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Revisiting <em>Small Mouth Sounds</em> and <em>Fun Home</em> by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: High-Powered Negotiation, High-Powered Drama by Steven Suskin

On the Shelf: Barbara Cook Tells All (and What a Tale!) by Steven Suskin

On the Shelf: A How-to Guide to Broadway Musicals by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Wiving It Wealthily in Central Park by Steven Suskin

Aisle View: Summer Idyll by Steven Suskin

Open your slice-of-summertime comedy with a near-doddering old man soliloquizing on a deserted Rhode Island beach, or a hopelessly out-of-place and abandoned sixteen-year-old boy sitting in …

Aisle View: Hospital-Room Family War by Steven Suskin

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play <em>War</em>, from Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3, begins in a hospital room, with two women sitting vigil over what seems to be a mannequin/patie…

Aisle View: Purple Blooms by Steven Suskin

Interview: Ivo van Hove Goes to Broadway by Steven Suskin

Ivo van Hove Photo: Jan Versweyveld Belgian director Ivo van Hove [pronounced EE-vo van HOE-va] made his Broadway debut...

Aisle View: Anna and the King by Steven Suskin

So many musicals to see, I know; but the show, which remains in exquisite condition, now strikes a tone -- emotionally, not just musically -- that has been absent in recent renditions.

Aisle View: Einstein's Brain by Steven Suskin

Heather Lind and Geneva Carr in Incognito. Photo: Joan Marcus Admirers of Nick Payne's Constellations,...

Aisle View: It's Hotter in Hades by Steven Suskin

Damon Duanno and Nabiyah Be in Hadestown. Photo: Joan Marcus When the trombone growls at the start of "The Road...

Interview: Joe Mantello Directs, Part 2 by Steven Suskin

Joe Mantello Photo: Brigitte Lacombe Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...

Interview: Joe Mantello Directs, Part 1 by Steven Suskin

Joe Mantello Photo: Brigitte Lacombe Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...

Interview: George C. Wolfe Makes a Musical, Part 2 by Steven Suskin

George C. Wolfe George C. Wolfe has directed such diverse productions as Angels in America, Caroline or Change, Elaine...