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Despite such attractive qualities, the show is repetitious. Despite the expertise, the evening feels amateurish.
Concluding the unofficial Irish portion of Broadway's spring season, we have "Shining City," a meandering footnote of a Conor McPherson drama that the Manhattan Theatre Club opened last nigh…
Summer stock came early last night, when Jerry Zaks' mechanical revival of Herman Wouk's World War II warhorse, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre with a TV l…
The revival that opened last night at the Booth Theatre is a peculiar but mesmerizing evening.
This remains good, smartly stupid fun, an unrepentantly violent, Grand Guignol bloodbath about splinter groups of nationalist splinter groups: a chop-shop of a world in which mutilated cats …
"Drowsy" - already buzzed about as the sleeper of the season - gets a little tiresome and, even at 105 minutes, a bit overextended. But it also is sweetheart of an escapist musical that cele…
There simply isn't enough charm in the story, narrative momentum in the music or individual voice in the choreography to feed the demands of a full-length dance musical.
Big changes are afoot for Sutton Foster as she gets ready to say 'I do,' and makes the transition from ingenue to adult in 'The Drowsy Chaperone'
The show that opened last night at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a good-natured, harmless, high-energy knockoff of the 1998 Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore romantic comedy about nuptial rituals o…
Despite those Rice credentials, the homoerotic/Oedipal potential and a score by the still-golden duo of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the show is dim, dumb and dreary. Considering that this …
Stephen Lynch tones it down to hit Broadway in 'Wedding Singer'
This is ebullient, crackling, miraculous theater - as moving as it is intellectually extravagant, as entertaining and humane as its description sounds Byzantine and overeducated.
The much-anticipated revival feels more like a postdecadence fashion show than Brecht's unsentimental satire about beggars and murderers, whores and rapists and the capitalists who outsleaze…
In her Broadway debut, Julia forsakes her Hollywood image and offers a lean, smart portrayal in 'Three Days of Rain'
Despite an intriguing cast, alas, Bartlett Sher's production is more conscientious than exciting, more respectful than galvanizing.
