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The actor's career has been shaped as much by chance encounters with icons as by his roles on stage.
There's not a dud in the ensemble, from Sandra Oh's flushed and impulsive Olivia to a scene-stealing turn by initialized performer "b" as Antonio, the sailor who rescues Sebastian from drown…
Twenty-four years later, this show still has the emotional depth of a sugared-up fourteen-year-old.
It's not a disaster, but any play about Ava Gardner that is this dull is definitely a disappointment.
Under Meadow's leadership, Manhattan Theatre Club premiered dozens of landmark plays and earned Tony, Pulitzer and Obie honors.
Beyond its sociological themes, the show is a ton of stylish, well-crafted fun with top-notch acting and top-to-bottom earworms.
Conceived and directed by Punchdrunk's chief wizard Felix Barrett, Viola's Room is an audio-guided indoor son et lumière.
If you arrived late and left five minutes early, you might say it crackles along in a noirish vein, but taken as a whole, the drama leaves you hanging.
"It may be 400 years old, but it lasts! It's funny stuff," Linn-Baker, who worked with Jesse Berger on the project, told Observer.
Smart deserves roles that deserve her. Izzy is not one of them.
Penelope Skinner's provocative script explores the emotional weight of identity and the shifting terrain of gendered expectations.
This is how Broadway's elite celebrated the year's wins.
Both Simard and her co-star in "Death Becomes Her," Megan Hilty, are up for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony this year. "You must throw the ball to your playing partner and let them win…
A rare chance to see the movie star's relaxed natural charm up close in the Minetta Lane Theatre as he plays a professor entangled with a young woman in Hannah Moscovitch's engaging two-hand…
A respectful revival brings this play about the agonies of love and sex vibrantly to life.
Hundreds of arts and culture nonprofits are facing uncertainty due to the National Endowment for the Arts revoking awards that fall outside of its "new priorities."
The Tony award winning actress shines in the family drama 'We Had a World,' and has also written and directed a new film, 'The Grotto.'
Jonathan Groff delivers a whirlwind, show-stopping performance that redefines what a Broadway star can be. Though the musical's biographical details are thin, Groff's magnetic presence, athl…
This darkly exhilarating musical has what is easily the best new score on Broadway, written by by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and an irreverent yet wistful book by Itamar Moses.
A group of teenagers retreat to the woods to process their feelings in playwright Eliya Smith's thoughtful and elliptical dramedy.
National treasure and Broadway's last great hope Adam Guettel is back onstage"but not with something new. Rex Reed reviews the revival with a wince and a wish for Guettel to move on"to somet…
Four short works from England's greatest living playwright blaze forth in outstanding American debuts.
In the most energizing and emotionally wrecking drama this season a group of high school students is studying "The Crucible" and processing the #MeToo movement.
Loosely adapted from a short-lived television series, this musical comedy about the making of a musical is full of showstopping songs and powered by a phenomenal cast.
Leaden direction and limp gags almost derail 'Sondheim's Old Friends,' a tribute show that feels as uneven as it is ambitious. But with Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and a late-breaking jol…
