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Sharr White’s period piece lacks the urgency of the works it emulates.
Although the ingredients for this revival look good on paper, the product turns out to be an empty, glossy misfire.
You don’t have to be a Joplin fan to have a great time at this rock musical.
Terence Rattigan’s 1946 masterwork gets a well-acted revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company.
This 25th annual event is a unique chance to assess tomorrow’s hit shows in their earliest incarnation.
The musical s protagonist spins tales of fantasy that leaves one wishing they were a little more fantastical.
Joshua Harmon’s tight, neatly structured play is a highly entertaining dark comedy with well-shaped characters.
A casting mismatch mars this overly slick production.
The liberties taken in Phyllida Lloyd’s production, set in a women s prison, add to the play s effect in visceral ways.
Horton Foote s play sees its first-ever production, a half decade after the playwright began working on it.
The script could use trimming, but Dee Dee Bridgewater makes an excellent Billie Holiday.
Although Dave Malloy’s festive electro-pop opera has been transferred to a larger venue, the players still mix intimately with the audience.
John Tiffany and his cast have put their own beautiful stamp on Williams heartbreaking memory play.
High art and trashy entertainment get smashed together brilliantly in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s brave opera.
Broadway’s beloved triple-threat is not all sweetness and light.
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey has unearthed another buried treasure.
In his first year as artistic director, Anthoni Cimolino has produced a vibrant and eclectic festival.
This self-indulgent bio musical about Shlomo Carlebach suffers from haphazard storytelling and superficial sentimentality.
This self-indulgent bio musical about Shlomo Carlebach suffers from haphazard storytelling and superficial sentimentality.
An impressive number of new cast albums have been released over the past year – some worth singing about.
Purists may sniff, but this updated musical adaptation makes all the right moves.
Boy meets girl in the awkward blind-date setting, with guests in the restaurant cheering them on.
The late-70s light rock musical lacks the contemporary punch it had when it first came out.
Noel Coward s rarely produced comedy does better today than it did in 1925.
This is a dreary, downright incomprehensible play that lacks the drama of Tennessee Williams’ earlier works.
