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Nearly 70 years after an unrepentant cad named Joey Evans first graced a Broadway stage in "Pal Joey," he's back, with his ambition and charm intact.
If you want Stockard Channing eating out of your hand - and who doesn't? - just compliment her pipes.
If "Prayer for My Enemy" ultimately proves too unwieldy for its own good, there are still the pleasures of watching these actors work their way through Lucas' thicket of words - as well as t…
Still, there is an underlying nervousness among some producers about early 2009, especially if the economic situation remains stagnant and tourists, both homegrown and foreign, stay away fro…
There's a glimpse of redemption at the end, but one can only hope that humanity is not doomed to keep repeating Clarke's particularly grim cycle of life.
What "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert" has done is strip the show down to its essentials, primarily to showcase the glorious music by Bernstein, being celebrated now during what …
Nothing concentrates the mind like money - or lack of it. And money has provided the plot for more than a few plays, one good example being "Dividing the Estate," Horton Foote's hilariously …
Hallie Foote's personal life is hard to separate from her professional one.
They have put together a small show about big ideas, an intelligent, fascinating examination of the American psyche, both good and bad.
"It takes a village to put Edna together," says Harvey Fierstein, back on Broadway for the final weeks of "Hairspray."
"But the people who help put me together can now do it faster."
The four-letter words are intact but just about everything else is amiss in the slack, unsatisfying Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo."
It's not often that a musical comes along that is as ambitious as it is emotional - and then succeeds on both counts.
Even if you are exhausted after the recent never-ending presidential campaign - which seemed to have had a longer run than "Cats" - you will find yourself drawn into "Farragut North," Beau W…
The setting may be America of four decades ago but there is something eerily topical about the Roundabout Theatre Company's tough-minded, thoroughly engrossing revival of David Rabe's "Strea…
Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway production of a new political drama, "Farragut North."
Now 20 years old, the play, which opened Monday at Second Stage Theatre, still resonates as a witty, acerbic and compact (90 minutes) examination of why men do what they do, particularly whe…
... a strange, unsatisfying play that tries to connect two very different kindnesses and produces only middling dramatic fireworks with its contrived story.
It's unnerving in the extreme, which makes the evening's fleeting moments of human connection all the more potent.
