John Patrick Shanley, author of the spellbinding "Doubt," and Henry Krieger, composer of the captivating "Dreamgirls," have banded together to concoct one of the most incongruous, foolish an…
Even as Broadway braces for the impact of the biggest U.S. financial crisis in decades, New York's largest nonprofit theaters are hewing to ambitious expansion plans. As they've grown, so to…
Though at least two of them are fine stage actors as well, there is something unmistakably TVish about this production at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Surely the ideal dining place before a performance of "The Lion King" is Braai (rhymes with cry, and is Afrikaans for "to grill"), a new hot spot for theatergoers.
Even aside from the obvious crowd-pleasing strategies, "All My Sons" leaves me with the oft-repeated feeling: What does it say about the American (or perhaps even world) theater that a playw…
Adam Rapp's "Kindness," running off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, is a four-character play with no stars but decent actors, questionable credibility but a good deal of slickness.
The Broadway revival that opened last night stars Frank Langella in a bravura performance that glorifies Langella as much as More. The Roundabout Theatre Company production, though wayward, …
Some of the 13 performers are actually 13; other may be old enough to know better. But 13 or not, they come across almost as juvenile as the perpetrators of this infantile concoction.
I'm not sure how many swallows it takes to make a summer, but I'm certain that one "Seagull" really well done would have been quite sufficient to establish Chekhov's genius and satisfy our h…
We cannot help recalling how good Michael Weller's youthful plays of the '70s were, as we sadly watch the second of his late middle-age ones come to grief.