If you follow mainstream theater, you know that there's a lot of hoopla around "Love Never Dies."...
Read OnI know, the competition is stiff, but last week's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" -- which I just...
Read OnRounding up the reviews of "The Miracle Worker" today (mine is here ), StageGrade wonders "Was it...
Read OnWhen I saw the subject line "Salem witch trials in Park Slope," my first thought was that someone...
Read OnAn article in today's Times (front page!) talks about the unusually high number of plays about gay...
Read OnBy aggregating reviews in one handy package, the blog Critic-O-Meter was playing a very useful...
Read OnHot on the heels of Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" (which I really, really liked ) comes another...
Read OnAfter starring in "Medea" at UCLA Live back in October, Annette Bening is about to open in Joanna...
Read OnI've had a bit of time to digest the recent announcement that Lincoln Center Festival is bringing...
Read OnFeinstein's has just announced that it'll present Mitzi Gaynor and her act "Razzle Dazzle! My Life...
Read OnIt's hard not to feel nostalgic during "Top...
What else can they possibly do to top the...
"Brooklyn's Finest" gets rolling with an early...
Here's a way to get those "God of Car nage" grosses back up to $1 million a week -- an all-star, African-American cast. Yasmina Reza, zee French lady who wrote zee play, has OK'd the idea, and so the search is on for four major stars.... Read Full Story
It's hard not to feel nostalgic during "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," about the risky 1971 decision to publish the classified...
The first 45 minutes of Andrew Bovell's "When the Rain Stops Falling" are disconcerting. The play starts off with a lengthy monologue that...
The Met's new production of "The Nose" should be a hit with everyone except headline writers. Had the Shostakovich comedy bombed, they'd quip...
Christopher Walken has an eccentric charisma, his hangdog, sorrowful demeanor spiked with a twisted kind of charm. The mix is a perfect fit for...
How many times have we witnessed a tantrum and wished that someone, any one would intervene? "The Miracle Worker," which returned to Broadway last...
After the bungle in the jungle that was "Tarzan," the 3-day-old fish that was "The Little Mer maid" and the soggy umbrella that is "Mary Poppins," I...
William Shakespeare as a play wright? Brilliant. As a character in a play? Not so hot. So proves "Equivocation," Bill Cain's ambitious comedy...
It sounds like an old MGM musical: A girl singer from a small town is discovered, becomes a star, then drops out of sight, only to rise again years...
Right-wing ideas don't exactly run rampant on New York stages. So the prospect of a pro vocative drama about abortion issues by conservative...
Craig Wright, apparently thinking that we haven't gotten the message from Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," has taken it upon himself to clarify it by...
For his all-jazz program at the Joyce, Lar Lubovitch sticks to what he does best. But that's all he does. The American choreographer, who's made...
Bam's transatlantic Bridge Project got off to a shaky start last month, when director Sam Mendes sucked all the playfulness out of Shakespeare's "As...
Here's a way to get those "God of Car nage" grosses back up to $1 million a week -- an all-star, African-American cast. Yasmina Reza, zee French...