The center of this universe, and the only irresistible part of the play, is Wright - probably just the way he'd have liked it.
"The Fever" was amazing theater when Shawn first revealed his prescient monologue at the Public Theater, after having developed his 90-minute act of class subversion in the safety of friends' living rooms.
And it is absolutely amazing today.
Hynes' production helps us understand, but not quite care.
Many Long Islanders who were put in the "Grease" spotlight shared their memories as cast members in productions done during their middle or high school years.
For all the nuanced performances, Taichman's production allows a few too many sitcom double-takes and fails to secure the dramatic shape. We wish the script could have been run through anoth…
Tony Shalhoub, TV's 'Monk,' is unfaithful to Patricia Heaton in Off-Broadway 'Scene'
In a reality show twist, the public will pick the cast for the latest incarnation of this beloved rock musical
Jack O'Brien's astonishing, visually stupendous production has further tightened its grip with ever more engrossing tales of the privileged young Russian thinkers who began the sweep of mass…
The expert: John Tartaglia, Tony Award-nominated actor ("Avenue Q") currently seen on Broadway starring as Lumiere in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."
Director Bill Condon has fashioned the best movie "Dreamgirls" that the 1981 Broadway hit could hope to be, which is to say he has successfully shaken free from the shadow of Michael Bennett…
There is an expired sell-by date to this limited run - an inescapable sense that the sunny 1966 trifle by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick got stuck into this big dark theater as filler betwee…
Granted, not everything on the Great White Way is magnificent, but it nearly always offers something better than this.
"Spring Awakening" did not merely open at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre last night. The action was more like ripping open, more like breaking out, more like tearing into the pretend pop and reu…
Astoria-based John Gallagher Jr. is having the time of his young life as an angst-ridden German teen whose hormones are as wild as his hair in 'Spring Awakening'
Despite a likable performance by Will Chase in the role made droll on film by John Cusack, the show tries so hard to be hip and clever that even the effort feels square.