Hell may be other people, but the most nefarious circle of Hades belongs to the neighbors who organize themselves into HOAs. David Lindsay-Abaire’s well-polished comedy The Balusters boast…
Schmigadoon!, a celebration and send-up of classic Broadway musicals that streamed for two seasons on Apple TV, has now made the inevitable if unnecessary transfer to the stage. Unlike last …
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Even after a century on the shelf, champagne doesn't always lose its fizz. Noël Coward's bubble-light 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, back on Broadway for the first time in 70 years, is a bit …
Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle are two of our finest screen performers, radiating an intelligence and likability that should serve them well in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Puli…
The latest film-to-stage adaptation to land on Broadway is a curious fact-based yarn about a Pennsylvania man unjustly convicted of a brutal rape and murder who sat on death row for two deca…
Elmer Rice, the grandson of 19th-century German-Jewish revolutionaries who wrote socially conscious plays in the early 20th century, is no longer the household name he once was. But you can …
TitanÃque, a sendup of the 1997 Oscar winner Titanic by way of the jukebox musical, shouldn't work. On paper, there's no reason to revisit James Cameron's bombastic big-screen blockbuster…
Some of our very best actors got their start in comedy " so it's only natural that sitcom veterans Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf should arrive on Broadway as that most deadly serious couple…
If there's any bygone hit musical that's ripe for reinvention, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic furball Cats " a 1981 musical megahit with mostly interchangeable characters crooning lite…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A narcissistic psychopath, an insecure dependent, a borderline, and a perpetual savior walk into a theater… and create one of the funniest and most…
Proximity to fame can do a number on one's self esteem. That's the big takeaway from Nicole Travolta Is Doing Alright, a gently comedic one-woman show by a personable and talented thirtysome…
Alexander Molochnikov was a rising theater director in Moscow until his outspoken denunciation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced him to flee to the United States. In Seagull: Tr…
In his Broadway debut, Jon Bernthal struts and frets in a serviceable facsimile of Al Pacino in the new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon " but the new production joins a recent list of …
The program for Milo Cramer's new musical revue No Singing in the Navy includes a witty and well-researched note from the playwright suggesting that sailors are "*the* True Subject of the Am…
The collected works of William Shakespeare are studded with so-called problem plays. Few are as problematic as Titus Andronicus, the Bard's first tragedy and generally co-credited to his pla…
You've never seen a procedural drama quite like the one in Public Charge, a fact-based play now running at the Public Theater. The show, by former State Department official Julissa Reynoso a…
They say that you should never meet your heroes. Fans of the late British children's author Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach, are in for a very rude…
In her stunning playwriting debut, Korean American actress Jeena Yi has managed to create a masterpiece. Jesa, a Ma-Yi Theater Company production now playing at the Public Theater, is an ins…
In the 180 years since it was first published, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo has continued to cast its spell on readers and audiences. The French produced a pricey feature adap…
Musical theater can create stars in virtually no time at all. Consider the remarkable rise of Jasmine Amy Rogers, who scored a Tony nomination last year for her Broadway debut in the flawed …
The indie folk-rock duo known as the Bengsons have been a regular fixture on Off Broadway stages over the last decade (and even made an appearance on Broadway last year performing Stephen Me…
It's the early days of perestroika in St. Petersburg and Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat), the son of a local Communist Party boss turned budding oligarch, is struggling to please his dad with un…
David Ireland's Ulster American, now playing at the Irish Rep, is a well-crafted skewering of straight, white, male creative types of a certain age who are desperate to maintain their releva…
The theater can be like a campfire from childhood, a place where you gather in the darkness to listen to a story about things that go bump in the night. David Cale's The Unknown makes the mo…