219 stories from The Faster Times
An odd mash-up of a musical - somewhere between "Floyd Collins" and Harry Potter - that might have worked better had it stuck to one genre.
Professional wrestling has arrived back on the New York stage with a smack and a crack and a thud that could not be more eloquent.
This is the kind of show that is nothing if it's not funny...and I did not find it all that funny. Yes, I did laugh at least a dozen times, but I cringed almost as often.
I would love to have loved this play.
The singing and dancing of Scott and the two-person Mennonettes seem swallowed up by the larger stage, and ticket prices as high as $116 demand either the kind of huge star that Scott has no…
It is a strength of both the performances and the play that we don't wind up necessarily siding with either woman.
If changing times and the appearance of such shows as "Men Mad" have made "Promises, Promises" less than the priceless musical it was considered during its initial run, there is nevertheless…
Branford Marsalis has composed bluesy music for the beginning of each act. It's nice, but it's not necessary. This production of "Fences" fills the Cort Theater with music.
The King of Rock 'n' Roll, The Man in Black, The King of Rockabilly, and The Killer are now playing their early hits every night in "Million Dollar Quartet," a rousing entertainment that has…
But it is hard to judge the script alone when the production has so much going for it — the fine performances, a six-member cast that includes Estelle Parsons as Margie’s babysit…
To the extent that “Elling” works, it is not due to the wisps of plot, which are even more incidental than they are implausible. The entertainment comes from the well-pitched per…
If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
“Elf” the musical, a harmless and occasionally charming stage adaptation that has now opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and runs just until January 2, more or less replicates t…
Thanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
The only problem with “La Bete,” which has now opened on Broadway, is what certainly shot it down in 1991 — the play itself, an imitation Moliere comedy set in 17th century…
It is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
The timing seem ideal for a Broadway revival of "Annie,"  and director James Lapine is attempting a timely approach to this story of optimism triumphing in a bleak era. Lapine's "Anni…
