Offstage Drama By Jeremy McCarter
Rabbit Hole would have made a fine screenplay-so why bother putting it on Broadway?
Rabbit Hole would have made a fine screenplay-so why bother putting it on Broadway?
Mrs. Warren's Profession makes one wonder: Why aren't New Yorkers crazy for George Bernard Shaw?
O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet examines our ability to delude ourselves-and what we do when we can't.
Sondheim killed as Broadway showed a taste for butchery-not to mention molestation. Cherry Jones flew high as a nun, while Ethan Hawke wallowed in self-destruction. Amid revivals and nostalg…
The Color Purple, polished too smooth, has nothing left but heartfelt uplift.
Jennifer Jason Leigh plays an extroverted striver in Abigail's Party. Now, that's a stretch.
The couples' relationships generate no emotional appeal, and the weighty subjects they throw around tell us little we don't know.
The Woman in White proves that minimalist Lloyd Webber is as problematic as overblown Lloyd Webber.
Jersey Boys, the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is surprisingly satisfying. You got a problem with that?
Sweeney Todd and See What I Wanna See pump some much-needed blood into an anemic season.
In The Odd Couple, Lane stretches, Broderick cramps up, and the audience gets pretty much what it paid for.
As an investigator puzzles out a black soldier's murder in the South in 1944, Fuller shows how all of us, individually and collectively, are prisoners of our history.
Any effort to make Broadway less a province of rich old white folks deserves applause.
The current revival of 'Absurd Person Singular' needs no help to seem clumsy and unconvincing.
Joe Brooks's vanity musical is not terrible enough to be campy fun, but it's pretty lousy all the same.
Sultry Idina Menzel heads back downtown and leaves her teenybopper fans behind.
How Sarah Kane's Life-and Afterlife-Made Her Plays a Sensation
In his first play, ex-con and country singer Steve Earle channels the voice of a famous woman on death row.
At this point, who isn't sick of puppets?
Richard Greenberg, warts and all, may be the best comic playwright alive.
In Fran's Bed and Colder Than Here, families that grieve together cleave together.