What: "Ethel Merman's Broadway," at Queens Theatre in the Park.
Why: She's been singing the late musical-comedy star's songs for 17 years, but growing up, Rita McKenzie was no fan of the brassy Broadway legend.
How right it feels, finally.
Toward the end, "Rodney's Wife" comes dangerously close to a soaper at the melancholy villa (designed by Susan Hilferty), where the dark walls are the color of rust, and rainstorms never cle…
We don't know whom to believe in "Doubt," the important and engrossing John Patrick Shanley drama that the Manhattan Theatre Club opened last night in its Off-Broadway playhouse. How splendi…
You could call "Svejk" a shaggy- dog story, but that would be unfair to the canary and the cat.
At 53, Richard Thomas has left John Boy far behind; he's playing a German spy
Off-Broadway show returns 20 years later, recalling a gifted playwright
Dogugaeshi is a splendidly meta-theatrical form of Japanese puppetry.
'Democracy': a gripping look at a West German chancellor
Even before "Death and the Ploughman" begins, its three performers enact slow-motion tableaux
If a Martian were to come to Broadway this week and see "Whoopi" and Eve Ensler's "The Good Body," the alien would conclude that at least half the earthling population cannot see beyond thei…
There is a mawkishness to the unsentimentality. We feel more manipulated than devastated, more impatient than persuaded.
'Sopranos' star Dominic Chianese isn't taking a break from the family quietly. He's singing. And he's center stage as a 'seething man' in Woody Allen's new play.
Humor flows easily between Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn, stars of the revival of ‘night, Mother,’ a prize-winning play about suicide
An unofficial Shanley-palooza kicks off this week with "Sailor's Song."
If you want to see one of Matthew Broderick's hands pretend to eat his other hand and then throw it up, the Roundabout Theatre Company has some tiresome silliness for you.