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The show will prove a stretch for conservative Broadway tastes, but anybody desiring something more adventurous than the same old musical stuff should check out "Fela!"
Hot visuals and energetic staging bolster some so-so performances
A frisky new comedy equally naughty and nice in contents, In the Next Room or the vibrator play is Sarah Ruhl's thoughtful consideration of sex and the Victorian woman.
Wonderfully drawn from E.L. Doctorow's novel, this 1997 musical by Terrence McNally (book) and the team of Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) now triumphantly returns to Broad…
Major musical drawn from Doctorow novel triumphantly returns to Broadway
LCT3 series offers a first-class premiere for a $20 ticket
"The Understudy" is likely to be popular among regional stages in future seasons, but casting directors will be hard pressed to find other players so winning as this excellent threesome.
Actress-writer's latest solo show thoughtfully depicts a melancholy ancestor
Jersey clown Barry Lubin's Grandma lends extra laughs to the one-ring festivities
Fantastical musical mixes social satire with Irish whimsicality
Crafted by Neil Simon at his bittersweet best, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" returns to Broadway in a lovely new production at the Nederlander Theatre sure to beguile anybody partial to family st…
Unless someone is an unconditional fan of either Miller, there's little reason to see Roundabout Theatre Company's so-what production, which, considering the questionable necessity for reviv…
Bright new Broadway musical deals lightly with serious theme
More fizzle than sizzle in Broadway revival
Jude Law depicts the prince with methodical madness
Great drama? No. A hot show? You bet.
A drama crafted in a minor key, Lindsay-Abaire’s latest piece is a character study that proves to be small in scope but sharp in its emotional regrets and prickly conversation as McDor…
Shakespeare’s rarely-staged “Timon of Athens” looks mighty nice at the Public Theater in a crisp, smartly shaped production starring a well-cast Richard Thomas as a blissfu…
The current production at Hopewell's Off-Broadstreet Theatre shows that the work is far more than mere sitcom. True, the principal characters are a pair of spinster old ladies, and true, the…
Rich liberals spill their phony guts in a bogus new drama
Spending over two hours in the company of a raging monomaniac with an Anne Frank obsession is not my idea of a fun time, especially when he's played with all stops out by Mandy Patinkin blaz…
No question that Johnson is a talented writer — his plainspoken language sounds very natural — but his new play does not sufficiently develop its intriguing premise.
Kurt Weill musical mixes a powerful score with a sorrowful South African story
Red Bull Theater vigorously brings a 1621 British drama to life
