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If you arrived late and left five minutes early, you might say it crackles along in a noirish vein, but taken as a whole, the drama leaves you hanging.
"It may be 400 years old, but it lasts! It's funny stuff," Linn-Baker, who worked with Jesse Berger on the project, told Observer.
Smart deserves roles that deserve her. Izzy is not one of them.
Penelope Skinner's provocative script explores the emotional weight of identity and the shifting terrain of gendered expectations.
This is how Broadway's elite celebrated the year's wins.
Both Simard and her co-star in "Death Becomes Her," Megan Hilty, are up for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony this year. "You must throw the ball to your playing partner and let them win…
A rare chance to see the movie star's relaxed natural charm up close in the Minetta Lane Theatre as he plays a professor entangled with a young woman in Hannah Moscovitch's engaging two-hand…
A respectful revival brings this play about the agonies of love and sex vibrantly to life.
Hundreds of arts and culture nonprofits are facing uncertainty due to the National Endowment for the Arts revoking awards that fall outside of its "new priorities."
The Tony award winning actress shines in the family drama 'We Had a World,' and has also written and directed a new film, 'The Grotto.'
Jonathan Groff delivers a whirlwind, show-stopping performance that redefines what a Broadway star can be. Though the musical's biographical details are thin, Groff's magnetic presence, athl…
This darkly exhilarating musical has what is easily the best new score on Broadway, written by by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and an irreverent yet wistful book by Itamar Moses.
A group of teenagers retreat to the woods to process their feelings in playwright Eliya Smith's thoughtful and elliptical dramedy.
National treasure and Broadway's last great hope Adam Guettel is back onstage"but not with something new. Rex Reed reviews the revival with a wince and a wish for Guettel to move on"to somet…
Four short works from England's greatest living playwright blaze forth in outstanding American debuts.
In the most energizing and emotionally wrecking drama this season a group of high school students is studying "The Crucible" and processing the #MeToo movement.
Loosely adapted from a short-lived television series, this musical comedy about the making of a musical is full of showstopping songs and powered by a phenomenal cast.
Leaden direction and limp gags almost derail 'Sondheim's Old Friends,' a tribute show that feels as uneven as it is ambitious. But with Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and a late-breaking jol…
Two decades after the film first flattered Oscar voters, 'Good Night, and Good Luck' returns"this time as a Broadway spectacle, complete with chain-smoking nostalgia, McCarthy-era paranoia a…
Culkin leads a cast that includes Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean and Bill Burr in this latest Broadway revival of David Mamet's classic tale of trash-talking salesmen.
Snook gives a master class, playing 26 characters in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel that's hideously apt for our age of Instagram filters and social media.
The go-to singer for musical theater heroines talks about the Encores! revival of the Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner musical.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn't solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production.
Imported from London, this musical about a WWII counterintelligence operation is totally lovable and expertly zany.
A would-be white supremacist finds out his own identity isn't quite what he thought it was in this tragicomedy that registers closer to reality than fiction.
