165 stories from On Off Broadway
While Epic Theatre Ensemble's initiative is to be applauded, "Passion Play" ultimately comes off as a slow, disjointed and overwritten thesis project. While Ruhl's postmodern concept is intr…
Off-Broadway's New Group is giving birth, quite literally, to a fine new musical about a gay adoption. It's not quite ready yet, but the ultrasound shows that something special has been conc…
Unfortunately, Classic Stage's muddled and misdirected production is unlikely to bring Ostrovsky's body of work back into fashion anytime soon.
It is so uninteresting and moves so slowly that it's bound to put essentially any audience member to sleep. Should you stay awake, its 75-minute length feels like at least four hours.
Michael Mayer's 90-minute production, which incorporates a bizarrely diverse songbook ranging from "Get Happy" to "Killing Me Softly with His Song," makes for delicious entertainment.
By the end of Lynne Meadow's effective production, you've gotten hooked. But for the most part, "Collected Stories" feels too polite, underwhelming and small.
The play often strains as it attempts to condense an overwhelming amount of exposition and introduce complicated financial models. But for the most part, Prebble cuts a clear narrative throu…
Two very different shows are now playing at the Broadway Theatre: a mostly enjoyable revival of "Promises, Promises" and a Kristin Chenoweth solo concert.
Washington comes off not as Troy, but a charismatic movie star wearing an unglamorous sanitation jumpsuit as a lark.
"Sondheim on Sondheim" is polished and well-intentioned, but it leaves you hungry for something more substantial and involving.
I suspect that I will grow to really like "American Idiot" over time, which is essentially what happened to me with "Passing Strange."
Bottom line: this production of "La Cage" is probably meant for those who never liked the musical to begin with.
"Bloodsong" compares favorably with other silly musicals like "Rock of Ages" and "Spamalot." And just like at "Rock of Ages," audience members are encouraged to get drunk and stay drunk. Aft…
What exactly is it that makes the new musical "Million Dollar Quartet" so damn enjoyable and invigorating?
Five years from now, no one will be listening to Andrew Lippa's score of "The Addams Family." 50 years from now, people will still be listening to "Anyone Can Whistle," marveling at its ball…
Considering the insane amount of hype this show has received, "The Addams Family" would appear to be the biggest disappointment of the theater season.
Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, is portrayed as an angry, adolescent rock star in the hilariously satirical and relentlessly silly "emo" musical "Bloody Bloody An…
Perfecting the comic timing and broad style required to stage the play is no easy task, and it shows that Tucci may have a future as a director ahead.
Logan's play is intellectually stimulating and nicely condensed, overtly theoretical but not necessarily didactic.
"Come Fly Away," Twyla Tharp's new dance musical inspired by the vocal recordings and nightclub style of Frank Sinatra, would probably make ideal cruise ship entertainment. But if you are lo…
Unconventional staging concepts, no matter how clever or cute, can easily get lost in translation. Such is the case with Gordon Edelstein's flawed Off-Broadway revival of "The Glass Menageri…
"All About Me," the duo's mindless, dysfunctional 90-minute cabaret act, has turned out to be the biggest disaster of the Broadway season. It makes a typical Vegas act look like "Oklahoma!" …
