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Sean Hayes is entertaining without pause in his sensational portrayal of Oscar Levant in one of the few Broadway shows that unimpeachably deserves its tumultuous standing ovation.
Comer's astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.Â
Alternatingly twee and berserk, Larissa FastHorse's work reaches a nadir when characters, in face paint and incongruous warrior costumes, start kicking around decapitated heads.
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons"from Monty Python to Mighty …
Doug Wright calls Sean Hayes "a national treasure." But at first he had trouble picturing him as the drug-driven, witheringly witty, piano-playing genius Oscar Levant.
This revival " with a new book by Aaron Sorkin " is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
As a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music approaches, the team behind shows like 'Ragtime' and movies like 'Anastasia' talks about their past, present, and future.
In this " wait for it " corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
The playwright explains how the new musical 'Shucked' started as a spoof of 'Hee-Haw' and blossomed into a corn-fed 'Brigadoon.'
Josh Groban is excellent as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, but the production is ugly and chaotic.
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it's TikTok meets gran…
Emerging from the pandemic, Christine Pedi discovered her vision had dimmed. But it hasn't stopped her from taking the stage Off Broadway in 'The Rewards of Being Frank.'
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
Director and choreographer Wayne Cilento " who was part of the original company of 'A Chorus Line' " on his life onstage and bringing 'Bob Fosse's Dancin'' back to Broadway.
Chekhov's 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover " those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store the…
Director Anne Kauffman says 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' touches on everything from history, philosophy and politics to interpersonal relationships and identity. "It's the kitchen-…
A single heartbreaking truth in both 'The Whale' and the newly revived 'A Bright New Boise' provided a pivot for the playwright turned screenwriter.
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British…
The Tony-winning director-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. explains how the '80s musical 'Baby' was reborn for a new era.
Sharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom " with laugh lines for Nathan Lane " and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes and …
The author of such landmarks as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "The House of Blue Leaves" recalls his long career, which started with two plays written at age 11.
White created 'Pictures from Home' from photographer Larry Sultan's 1992 memoir of the same name. "It's heartbreaking and also very funny."
