This Brechtian collage from the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre on a still-controversial American espionage trial so lacks insight and pulse that it soon devolves into a random, mud…
The gritty reality of these monologues sits uneasily with the basic jolliness of the music hall songs. These components often undermine each other, resulting in an odd theatrical tug of war.…
Hugh Jackman is ready to show he's more than just a pretty face.
If the Birdland folks are smart—and they usually are—they'll have Tunick and trusted colleagues back in order to keep this more than good thing going.
No story is played out if it's played right. Despite two years of having Ms. Rodham Clinton shoved in our faces at all times, Wendy Weiner's Mount Olympus spin on Hillary is cringingly, groa…
Unfortunately, the Metropolitan Playhouse's stripped-down production highlights the play's greatest faults, from the weak dialogue to the melodramatic plot.
An intriguing setting and a few good sight gags can't hide the fact that Cape Disappointment is all too aptly titled.
Sexual frustration and attempted murder are the big items on the holiday menu in Alan Ayckbourn's black farce, which is being given a spunky if not very sparkling revival by Hudson River Rep…
An androgynous emcee introduces inept chorus girls at a club in 1920s Berlin while a naive young journalist observes from the sidelines and tries to save a charismatic, self-destructive star from herself. But this isn't Cabaret, just a subpar carbon copy about a real-life star of Weimar Germany.
Under the brisk—you might even call it urgent—direction of Lucie Tiberghien, the intensity of Stephen Belber's writing is matched by the performances of a superior cast.
Adapter-director Peter Meineck's reductive and overly broad stage version of Catch-22 never succeeds in navigating the fine duality of Heller's original or certain satires that have followed.
Danny Hoch's solo show may predate the economic downturn plaguing the city, but that doesn't mean this provocative play exploring the gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is out of date.
After several regional productions, this lighter-than-tinsel ornament has floated onto Broadway, and it's as insubstantial as the sudsy snowflakes that fall on the audience during the grand …
The leads of 'Irving Berlin's White Christmas' make merry on Broadway.
Mitchell is so steeped in the irrepressible joy that used to be Bobby Short's sole domain that it infused his entire show-sometimes even to a fault.
Scott Siegel's Broadway Unplugged series is proving to be one of the most important annual events for anyone interested in how musicals are offered to the public.
Putting their gracious theme and its songs across, Fasano and Comstock were their usual appealing selves.
It's not a good sign when the overheard comments of the senior citizens sitting in front of you are twice as engaging as the play you're reviewing.
"Sex and the City" meets "Six Feet Under" in the self-conscious solo comedy "The Funeralogues."
Danny O'Connor can do wasted like nobody's business.
The son of globe-trotting, award-winning feminist Perdita Huston, Pierre-Marc Diennet has a story to tell, and it is one most of us probably haven't heard before.
Blue skies and smiling faces. Open windows and open vistas. The whole world is out there - and we'll bring it to you. This is what tech advertising looks and sounds like. It's a promise of f…
On balance, this is a highly watchable "Macbeth," although the director's ambitions sometimes demand forgiveness from the viewer.
In its tour through the holy and the profane - not to mention the aerial space of the Minetta Lane Theatre - Clarke's "Garden of Earthly Delights" manages to evoke many of the same feelings …
It's delightful to hear Leonard Bernstein's score in a full setting. At once musically complex and pop-music accessible, augmented by the wit of Betty Comden and Adolph Green's lyrics, this …