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Peter Morgan's facile script and Michael Grandage's slick production have the oversimplified distortions of a historical coloring book and the phony significance of a high-toned "Rocky" movi…
One recent evening, "Legally Blonde" actress punctuated her Broadway number with a spirited kick and her shoe went flying.
If you're going to grandstand in the theater, why not make a really grand stand? So it is with "Inherit the Wind," the creaky but still timely "monkey trial" melodrama that opened last night…
Comic and LI native John Fugelsang chronicles his life in a one-man show
Less imaginative than Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," less primal than "Lolita," "Blackbird" appears to be trying to send audiences away with more questions than answers about this l…
Weinraub makes impressive use of his reporter's talent for posing incisive questions. If only he felt less compelled to provide us with the answers along the way.
For anyone who appreciates the certainty with which O'Neill picks familiar scabs, this is well worth adding to your collection.
Kevin Spacey imports Eugene O'Neill's sorrowful gem, 'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' from London's Vic to Broadway
"The Pirate Queen" isn't an embarrassment like "Dance of the Vampires" or a vanity project like "In My Life." It just feels a little sad, as if a lot of people put a lot of time into somethi…
"The Year of Magical Thinking" is 90 minutes of spellbinding theater.
This apocalyptic Midwest-gothic semi-musical, co-produced by the Edge Theater where Rapp is playwright in residence, outlasts its material, loses its compass and doesn't add up to much it ha…
A commemorative quality hangs over "Some Men," as if Terrence McNally had been asked to piece together a summary overview for a gay counterpart to black and women's history months.
Joan Didion turns her memoir about coping with suffering, 'The Year of Magical Thinking,' into a one-woman show starring Vanessa Redgrave
"Curtains," which opened last night at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after a success in Los Angeles, is likable at best.
Without a distancing layer of camp to brighten the theater-world stereotypes and dogged sentimentality, the material isn't strong enough to be provocative or outlandish enough to be amusing.
Director Edward Hall has taken "Twelfth Night's" famed opening invocation to heart.
If Philip Seymour Hoffman and love stories feel like deeply incompatible systems, you have some hint of the unpredictable delights of "Jack Goes Boating," the original and almost shockingly …
The role of a vulgar producer in Curtains is close to Debra Monk's heart, as is the Tiffany locket given to her by lyricist Fred Ebb
The finest moment in Mike Batistick's kind little tragedy "Chicken" takes place in complete silence.
