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"As an actor, you're often the most visible part of a project while having the least amount of say over its final form,” James Franco said recently. Â Although at the time he was mak…
Last year, there were so many more bad shows on Broadway from which to choose. This year, I couldn’t bring myself to add some clear-cut flops that I considered well-intentioned efforts…
In looking over my top 10 New York theater list for 2014, and top 10 lists by other critics, I realized that most of the shows we favored have ended their runs. So here is another top 10 lis…
"There are plenty of unhappy people in the world, why should we be the ones who get to be happy?" says one of the ten characters in "Pocatello," the new play at Playwrights Horizons b…
All but three of the 35 Broadway shows currently playing are offering Monday night performances on Christmas week, and many have scheduled matinees on the Friday after Christmas Day. (Scroll…
"Every Brilliant Thing," a funny, fun and moving show about a boy who begins writing a list of "everything worth living for" to cheer up his suicidal mother, comes from Great Britain, where …
“I believe in the healing power of the theater,” actress Jane Summerhays has said, “that it is a place where we all come together, where we take refuge, where inexplicable …
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” is on most critics lists of the top 10 theater in 2014 so far, including mine. The second-most listed New York stage show: …
Sting, the composer of “The Last Ship” who took over the role of Jackie White in the musical on December 9th, will now stay through January 24th. Click on any photograph t…
An American in Paris, the musical based on the 1951 movie by Vincente Minnelli that starred Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly, opened yesterday at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris. This st…
My ten favorite shows on New York stages in 2014 were all plays, although one felt like a musical. They were mostly presented Off-Broadway, although one took place in a hospital.  Onl…
Almost every one of the performers pictured here was in the news this past week — this is not just a naked scheme for ratings, as some might accuse Peter Pan Live of having been. Below…
With scenes that recall hair-raising episodes from both "Homeland" and "Breaking Bad," Ayad Akhtar's latest play, which continues the winning streak begun with his Pulitzer-winning Disgraced…
On December 1, 2014, the Wall Street Journal published the following article by Joanne Kaufman, who “writes about culture,” in which she admits to having left at intermission at …
Bradley Cooper is shirtless and in boxer shorts when we first see him on stage as John Merrick in director Scott Ellis’s competent production of Bernard Pomerance's play "The Elephant …
During intermission for "The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible," which is a loud magic show making a six-week stop at Broadway's Marquis theater as part of a 32-city U.S. tour, I v…
Songs OVERTURE TENDER SHEPHERD I GOTTA CROW! NEVERLAND I'M FLYING! PIRATE MARCH VENGEANCE (a new song for Captain Hook) PIRATE MARCH (reprise) HOOK'S TANGO WENDY HOOK'S TARANTELLA I WON'T GR…
Scott Ellis, the director of “You Can’t Take It With You,” the soon to open “Elephant Man,” and the forthcoming “On The Twentieth Century,” is offer…
Two Broadway shows " The Illusionists and The Elephant Man " are opening in December, as are a handful of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals. (The bulk of the …
There’s been so much promotion for Peter Pan that it feels as if we’ve seen it already — and of course, we have, starting back in December, 1904, with the first stage Peter…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater this month? Take these dozen questions and find out.
Emma Stone is making her Broadway debut performing as Sally Bowles  in Cabaret thru February 1, 2015. Stone, 26, is best known for her movie roles in The Help and the Amazing Spider…
My Broadway gift guide has proven popular enough in the past couple years that I am updating it for 2014, with information on theater tickets, theater subscriptions, play scripts, cast re…
Broadway’s schedule is irregular this Thanksgiving holiday week. Below is the calendar, with links to my reviews. Only three shows will have a performance on Thanksgiving Day, but …
A week full of openings, Great Britain celebrated #LoveTheatre Day, Â Elaine Stritch remembered, Mike Nichols mourned, and I’ve given into the promotional fever and include trailers …
