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&Juliet
Not every musical can survive the replacement of its Tony-nominated leading lady or feel fresh on its second viewing. But not every musical proves to be “&Juliet,” the thoroughly enchanting “jukebox musical” now at the… [more]
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Prepare to hear noise – and make noise – at “A Beautiful Noise,” the often exuberant if tonally confused biomusical about the legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, now settling in for what I expect to be… [more]
A Little Night Music
Even here in New York City, thousands of miles from Scandinavia, the sun did not set before the great orchestrator and conductor Jonathan Tunick led the 53-piece Orchestra of St. Luke’s into the opening notes… [more]
A Sign of the Times
There are probably big dollar signs in the eyes of the commercial producers of “A Sign of the Times,” the sometimes entertaining and often bloated jukebox musical – co-produced by the York Theatre Company –… [more]
A Streetcar Named Desire
Depending on how many trips one has taken to New Orleans’ Elysian Fields – through numerous Broadway productions, an Oscar-winning movie, and award-winning television productions of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” -- it’s logical… [more]
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Story
The 1928 standard “When You’re Smiling” tells us “When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.” And in the new bio-musical “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Story,” now at Studio 54, it’s undeniably… [more]
Aladdin
Casey Nicholaw has proven more than once over his career that he knows how to create a truly show-stopping moment on stage (just think of “Show Off” from “The Drowsy Chaperone”), but the talented director-choreographer… [more]
All In: Comedy About Love
"All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich”, a series of hilarious short stories about dating, heartbreak, marriage, and that sort of thing, is now playing at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre through February 16.
Directed by… [more]
All of Me
Possessing all the positive qualities of the classic film “rom-com,” Laura Winters’ winning new play “All of Me,” now being presented by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center, has its 20something main… [more]
Appropriate
Raucous laughs. Loud gasps. Stunned silence. All turn out to be appropriate responses to “Appropriate,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ provocative play, now getting a belated – and yes, excellent -- Broadway production via Second Stage at the… [more]
Breaking the Story
As Thomas Wolfe wondered, can you ever go home again? Even when you change your physical surroundings? It’s the major dilemma surrounding Marina Reyes (played by the stalwart Maggie Siff), a longtime war correspondent who… [more]
Buena Vista Social Club
In our topsy-turvy world, I am not sure I agree with the proclamation made in the “Buena Vista Social Club” that “there’s nothing a song can’t fix.” But should any question persist whether “music is… [more]
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
What good is sitting alone in your room when you can be ensconced at the Kit Kat Club, or more accurately the extensively renovated August Wilson Theatre, now home to Rebecca Frecknall’s reconceived version of… [more]
Cellino V. Barnes
Most Americans can name at least a few prominent lawyers: Clarence Darrow, Johnnie Cochran, Elle Woods. But who doesn’t remember Ross Cellino Jr. and Steve Barnes (even if you never knew their first names)? These… [more]
Chicago
For much of its 20+ year run, the Broadway revival of the brilliant John Kander-Fred Ebb musical “Chicago” at the Ambassador Theatre has attracted new audiences by bringing in a rotating series of superstars from… [more]
Clowns Like Me
If, like me, you’re still recovering from Eddie Redmayne suddenly emerging on stage dressed like Stephen King’s Pennywise in “Cabaret,” your natural inclination may be to stay away from a show titled “Clowns Like Me.”… [more]
Conservations with Mother
One of the consistent joys of New York theatergoing for the past 40 years has been watching actors taking material that in other hands might be downright weird of unbearably trite and performing a sort… [more]
Dakar 2000
If the phrase “liar, liar, pants on fire” suddenly became reality during Rajiv Joseph’s engaging new 80-minute play “Dakar 2000,” the entire stage of Manhattan Theatre Club Stage 1 at New York City Center would… [more]
Death Becomes Her
In a Broadway season where every current musical – even the best of then -- seems slightly unsure at times about what it wants to accomplish, “Death Becomes Her,” now at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, has… [more]
English
Many of us define ourselves primarily by our political beliefs, sexual orientation, race, religion or gender. But as we are savvily reminded in Sanaz Toossi’s oh-so-smart, Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English,” now at the Roundabout’s Todd… [more]
Eureka Day
Great theater is often meant to make us uncomfortable, which Chicago-based director Anna D. Shapiro knows better than almost anyone, having helmed such shattering plays as “August: Osage County,” “The Minutes” and “Pass Over,” all… [more]
Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole A Song
For over 40 years, dedicated theatergoers have relied on Gerard Alessandrini to deliciously skewer Broadway’s best and worst shows in his “Forbidden Broadway” series of musical revues. Considering the size of the target, it’s no… [more]
Ghosts
If you’ve never seen Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” you’re probably not alone. Despite the enduring popularity of the famed 19th-century Norwegian dramatist, the play has not graced a Broadway stage in five decades and has even… [more]
Good Bones
Just as we watch the slow unveiling of the dream kitchen being built by new homeowners Travis (Mamadou Athie) and Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson), the many layers of James Ijames’ new play “Good Bones,” now… [more]
Grangeville
In Don Henley’s classic ballad “The Heart of the Matter,” the heartbroken narrator concludes that he thinks everything is about forgiveness. Decades later, the same message ultimately emerges in Samuel D. Hunter’s extraordinary new play… [more]
Gypsy
As has been frequently noted, conquering the role of the domineering stage mother Rose in the 1959 Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical, “Gypsy,” now at the beautifully renovated Majestic Theatre, is the musical theater equivalent… [more]
Hadestown
Usually, I only tell my enemies to go to hell, but, right now, I’m making an exception. Friends, countrymen, whoever –get thee down to the Walter Kerr Theatre where Anais Mitchell’s incredibly moving and melodic… [more]
Hamilton
History is made, in more ways than one, in “Hamilton,” the consistently thrilling, often groundbreaking new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that has landed at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre after an award-winning run earlier this year… [more]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Yes, Virginia, there’s finally some real magic back on Broadway! Fear not, even in its “slimmed-down” one-part version, Jack Thorne’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a continuation of J.K. Rowling’s multi-book saga, still has… [more]
Hell's Kitchen
Being able to brilliantly straddle the line between (semi)autobiography and a universal coming-of-age tale is just one of the many achievements of the vibrantly exciting new musical, “Hell’s Kitchen,” now at the Shubert Theatre. Expect… [more]
Here There Are Blueberries
In theater, as in life, timing is often everything. Take the arrival of the Tectonic Project’s “Here There Are Blueberries,” now at New York Theatre Workshop. It’s a potent warning about how the Holocaust may… [more]
Home
The idea of home – as a safe place that one desperately wants to return to – is a powerful concept all-too-present currently on the New York stage, from “The Wiz” to “Breaking the Story.”… [more]
Job
It’s common parlance these days to tell people they have only one job to do, but that idiom has rarely applied to playwrights, who prefer their work to have a myriad of complexities. That’s undeniably… [more]
King Lear
Once more unto the breach my friends! I know the quote is from Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” but it’s the way I feel every time I step into another star-driven production of the Bard’s “King Lear.”… [more]
Kowalski
Gregg Ostrin’s new play “Kowalski”, about the first meeting between playwright Tennessee Williams and actor Marlon Brando, has officially opened and will now run through February 23 at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West… [more]
Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares
The title of Laura Benanti’s hilarious and touching new solo show, “Nobody Cares,” now at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, is the ultimate in self-deprecation, which is also a good way to describe this ultra-enjoyable 80-minute… [more]
Lempicka
Without question, the art of making art about artists – especially visual ones – has long proved tricky for theater makers. Stil, it’s clearly not fair for audiences to expect “Sunday in the Park with… [more]
Liberation
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Liberation, a new play by Tony Award® nominee Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons), directed by fellow Tony nominee Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding). This limited engagement is… [more]
Mary Jane
Seemingly designed as both testament to the human spirt and an examination of the status of women in today’s society, Amy Herzog’s autobiographically-inspired play “Mary Jane,” now making its overdue Broadway debut at Manhattan Theatre… [more]
Maybe Happy Ending
There are many secrets to crafting the successful rom-com, but none is more important than nailing the main couple’s initial “meet cute,” which is just one of the many things that Will Aronson and Hue… [more]
Merrily We Roll Along
How did it happen? How did British director Maria Friedman do what hasn’t been done before: Deliver a triumphant production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s short-lived 1981 Broadway musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” which… [more]
MJ
If there’s ever been any question that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest singer-dancers that pop music has ever produced, the new biomusical “MJ,” now at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre, simply refutes all doubters.… [more]
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
As any Francophile can tell you, red is the signature hue of the new Broadway megamusical “Moulin Rouge,” now at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. It’s prevalent in many aspects of Derek McLane’s extra-extravagant set, Catherine… [more]
Oh, Mary
If those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it, those who do learn it are able to create hilarious theater -- as is proven by “Oh, Mary!” now occupying Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre… [more]
Once Upon A Mattress
Hey, nonny nonny, is it you? Hey, nonny nonny, is it you? Well, in the case of the exceedingly frothy and excessively silly revival of the 1959 musical “Once Upon a Mattress,” now at the… [more]
Operation Mincemeat
Let’s face it: for decades, anything has been fair game these days as the source for a musical, from “Les Miserables” (based on Victor Hugo’s historical mega-novel) to “Heathers” and “Clueless” (based on “cult” classic… [more]
Othello
Two movie stars with significant stage experience. An experienced director who has helmed some of the greatest revivals of this decade. And, above all, a Shakesperean tragedy with the potential power to make one angry,… [more]
Purpose
Just as all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way, so are their houses, as proven by the ones for many recent shows at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater, from the semi-shabby Southern “plantation” populated… [more]
Redwood
Neither a giant success nor a giant flop, the new musical “Redwood,” now at the Nederlander Theatre, is more like a giant wasted opportunity for its star (and co-conceiver) Idina Menzel. Still, I suspect Menzel’s… [more]
Six
“Remember us from PBS?,” Catherine of Aragon (the excellent Adrianna Hicks) cheekily asks the audience early on at the extremely entertaining “Six,” even though I doubt if many of the folks sitting inside the Brooks… [more]
Stereophonic
“Art isn’t easy/Every minor detail/is a major decision/Have to keep things in scale/have to keep to your vision.”
Unsurprisingly, the late, great Stephen Sondheim summed up in mere seconds what David Adjmi takes over three… [more]
Sunset Boulevard
We’re back to that famed boulevard of broken dreams but things look very different today on “Sunset Boulevard” (now at the St. James Theatre) than they did in the last two Broadway incarnations of this… [more]
Table 17
Based purely on its plot synopsis, one might have reservations about seeing Douglas Lyons’ “Table 17,” now being presented at MCC Theater. After all, is there anything that special about a play concerning a former… [more]
Tammy Faye
“I couldn’t have done it without the gays,” says the television evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (a truly sensational Katie Brayben) as she awaits her heavenly ascent towards the end of “Tammy Faye,” the periodically entertaining… [more]
The Antiquities
"How did it happen, how did we get so far off the track?” Stephen Sondheim asked in “Merrily We Roll Along.” That query re-emerges, in far different language and with far more chilling implications, in… [more]
The Beacon
Nearly 50 years ago, Kate Mulgrew literally brightened our daytime TV screens for the first time as the fiery Mary Ryan on the ABC daytime soap “Ryan’s Hope.” Lucky for us, time has done nothing… [more]
The Book of Mormon
Traditional in form and style, but subversive in content, the new musical, “The Book of Mormon,” is a no-holds-barred extravaganza rife with irreverence. Its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of “South Park” fame, and… [more]
The Counter
Like me, many of us probably make up the conversations we see between two strangers – on the subway, in a hotel lobby, or in a restaurant. But one has to have the imagination and… [more]
The Great Gatsby
Just as Jay Gatsby, the millionaire at the center of F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” believes that an excessive show of wealth signals that he’s made it in 1920’s Long Island society,… [more]
The Jonathan Larson Project
In my early days as a cabaret reviewer, I would often chastise singers who used too many unknown songs in their shows, believing that those performers were often alienating audiences who traditionally preferred the tried… [more]
The Lion King
The most successful of Disney's screen-to-stage adaptations benefits greatly from Julie Taymor's masterful staging, complete with bigger-than-life puppets who bring the African wildlife to life. The story of the young lion cub who must succeed… [more]
The Outsiders
At the end of “The Outsiders,” both S.E. Hinton’s groundbreaking 1967 novel about teen class warfare in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the faithful and very satisfying musical adaptation now open at the Jacobs Theatre, there is… [more]
The Sabbath Girl
The perils (and occasional pleasures) of interfaith romance have been a staple of musical theater for decades, from “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Cabaret” through “The Last 5 Years.” While not in the same league… [more]
Titanique
With so much of today’s theater forcing us to reflect on our current-day society and its moral problems, no one can blame audiences for seeking a pure escape – perhaps just like the millionaires of… [more]
Water for Elephants
Throughout “Water for Elephants,” the crowd-pleasing new musical directed by the talented Jessica Stone at the Imperial Theatre, there are amazing displays of acrobatic ability (mostly performed by the astounding members of the Canadian-based 7… [more]
We Had a World
Early on in Joshua Harmon’s clearly biographical “We Had a World,” now debuting at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II at New York City Center, the onstage Joshua (played by a wonderful Andrew Barth Feldman, appearing… [more]
What Became of Us
A pair of characters listed in the Playbill simply as “Q” and “Z.” A set (by Tonya Orellana) consisting only of a large white projection screen and gray slab-like piece of playground or gymnastic equipment.… [more]
Wicked
This very entertaining if dangerously overstuffed musical tells the "true story" about how poor misunderstood Elphaba (Shoshanna Bean) became the Wicked Witch of the West, and how she and good witch Galinda (Jennifer Laura Thompson)… [more]
Woof
If there’s something we’ve learned through experiencing the work of the brilliant Australian stand-up comic Hannah Gadbsy – who skyrocketed to international fame with “Nanette” -- is that while you might come for the jokes,… [more]
Yellow Face
In his often-hilarious 2006 play “Yellow Face,” now getting a Broadway revisal at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre – yes, there’s been a lot of rewriting of this pointed comedy since it was last seen… [more]
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