The theater is something of a religion, and the venerable Belasco Theater does look a little like a church. So, professional kvetch Michael Moore and his savvy director, Michael Mayer, made a wise…
Didn't we already see "Groundhog Day" onstage this year? Or is "A Parallelogram" playwright Bruce Norris' private little joke? Just kidding. Both shows fiddle around with the concept of the…
Who'd have thought that the Rude Mechanicals would rescue a floundering production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and turn it into a giddy delight? Galvanized by Danny Burstein's open-hearted…
Oscar Isaac’s Hamlet is to die for, but director Sam Gold’s bizarre “Hamlet” is to shoot on sight. Shakespeare has always been an accommodating chap; whatever interpretative indignities directors…
Karen Pittman is giving a sensational performance in the new play at Lincoln Center Theater, "Pipeline," starring as a mother who fights tooth and nail to save her son from the “school-to-prison…
Bette Midler won our love in “Hello, Dolly!” just by wiggling her pinky finger. Donna Murphy, who has slipped into Dolly Gallagher Levi’s trim little boots while Bette is on vacation (and will…
It’s a good play. Honestly, it’s a good play. No, I really mean it. This mantra, or something like it, is necessary to keep your faith in “Marvin’s Room,” the mordantly funny play about life and love…
It’s been a busy, diverse spring both on Broadway and off, with a bumper crop of headturning musicals and ambitious plays. Here’s our picks for the best of the year so far, as chosen by Variety’s New…
The management of “1984,” the lauded West End import playing at Broadway’s Hudson Theater, felt it necessary to ban children under 13 from the stage production adapted by co-directors Robert Icke and…
Kirsten Childs’ high spirits are infectious. “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical folk tale having its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is her irresistible invitation to kick up your heels. Set…
Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearsome character in the show…
