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Ryann Redmond in Gigantic
(©Carol Rosegg)
Attempting to combine snark and silliness with sentimentality in a new musical is a dangerous proposition. Balancing the former two qualities…
Sydney Blaxill and Connor Johnston in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
(©Hunter Canning)
Something’s going very, very wrong in the suburban world where Jennifer Haley’s …
Kathleen Chalfant in Rose
(©Carol Rosegg)
Kathleen Chalfant has found a terrific showcase for her estimable talents in Laurence Leamer’s Rose, which opened last night at the Clu…
Todd Gearhart and Jean Lichty in Nora
(©Carol Rosegg)
Ingmar Bergman’s Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, can be an immensely moving experience as…
Clyde Baldo and Matt Pilieci in The Eternal Space
(©Mike Scully)
Generally words such as “soaring” and “majestic” do not spring to mind when theatergoers conte…
Raymond Crowe in The Illusionists
(©Photo used with permission of The Illusionists)
Last holiday season, aficionados of magic, sleight of hand, and derring-do got a special treat when …
Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra in On Your Feet
(©Matthew Murphy)
Will the rhythm get you at the new bio-tuner On Your Feet, which tracks Gloria Estefan’s journey from an or…
Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis in Misery
(©Joan Marcus)
At this juncture, a critical response to Misery, which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre last night, feels more than a little un…
Tasha Lawrence, Meghann Fahy, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Piper Perabo in Lost Girls
(©Joan Marcus)
In John Pollono’s Lost Girls, Linda, a fiftysomething grandmother, proudly tells …
Jordan Ahnquist, Lynne Wintersteller, Jeremy Kushnier, and Kate Middleton in Shear Madness
(©Carol Rosegg)
Interactive theater comedies don’t get much daffier or more featherwe…
Lea Salonga and George Takei in Allegiance
(©Matthew Murphy)
Based purely on the emotional resonance of its subject matter, the new musical Allegiance, which opened last night at Broa…
Gabriel Ebert, Matt Ryan and Keira Knightley in Therese Racquin
(©Joan Marcus)
The painterly precision of Evan Cabnet’s staging of Therese Raquin astonishes. Beowulf Boritt̵…
Daniel Jenkins and Thomas Jay Ryan in Travels With My Aunt
(©Carol Rosegg)
Auntie Mame meets The Third Man in Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt as Henry, a straight-laced ret…
Sarah Steele, Arian Moayed, Jayne Houdyshell, and Lauren Klein in The Humans
(©Joan Marcus)
The Blake family may be gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving in Stephen Karam’s richly…
Hasan Minhaj in Homecoming King
(©Andrew Kist)
The impish gleam that frequently crosses Hasan Minhaj’s face as he performs his solo show Homecoming King, which opened last night…
John Bolton, Cary Tedder, Eloise Kropp, Mara Davi, Danny Gardner in Dames at Sea
(©Jeremy Daniel)
Goofy and loveable, the musical Dames at Sea has been delighting fans of stage and sc…
Carly Tamer and Alison Fraser in First Daughter Suite
(©Joan Marcus)
Back in 1993, musical theater writer Michael John LaChiusa tickled audiences’ fancies and teased their ears …
Daphne Rubin-Vega in Empanada Loca
(©Monqiue Carboni)
One of the masterstrokes of the original production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd was the way in whic…
Gardiner Comfort in The Elephant in Every Room I Enter
(©Jenny Anderson)
Purposefully writing a one-man-show with a rambling, confused text sounds like a risky proposition. The Elepha…
César Alvarez (center) and company in Futurity
(©Ben Arons)
One of the most audacious concepts for a new musical can be found in Futurity, which opened last night at the Connelly…
Victoria Mack and Ian Kahn in Hard Love
(©Clark Kim)
Questions of faith complicate those of romance in Motti Lerner’s contemporary potboiler Hard Love, now playing at the Becket…
Julia Coffey, Christopher J. Hanke, Jennifer Van Dyck, Kevin O’Rourke, Robert Eli, and Kelly McAndrew in Perfect Arrangement
(©James Leynse)
As Topher Payne’s funny and th…
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in The Gin Game
(©Joan Marcus)
Scenic designer Riccardo Hernandez provides an exquisitely gritty backdrop for the new production of D.L. Coburn̵…
Christina Bennett Lind, Danny Bernardy, Ethan Slater, Nick Flint, and Sarah-Jane Casey in Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
(©Russ Rowland)
After taking in One Year Lease Theater Comp…
Sam Rockwell in Fool for Love
(©Joan Marcus)
Sam Shepard’s ability to channel a Greek tragedy--like sense of inexorable doom into the modern world never fails to impress. Last …
