The Receptionist, Adam Bock’s dark satire about the dark Arendtian currents in American corporate culture, returns to Off Broadway nearly a decade after its premiere in a solid, suitably c…
It’s Tony time, all you Broadway babies! The season that just wrapped was notably thin — just 30 new productions, compared to 43 last year — but there was still plenty of drama. And ha…
Director Robert Hastie’s fresh update of Hamlet arrives at BAM’s Harvey Theater with visual flair, a first-rate cast at home with the Bard’s poetry, and a decidedly modern and upbeat a…
Off Broadway’s Bedlam troupe returns to its bare-bones theatermaking roots with a production of Othello that requires its four-person cast to double (and triple and quadruple) up to play 1…
Two men break into an abandoned house and soon wind up in a standoff with guns drawn. That’s the intriguing premise at the top of Ben Andron’s misguided and muddled three-hander Broken S…
A remarkable, and in some ways remarkably strange Broadway season is winding down. The number of musicals — new musicals in particular — has been remarkably light. I’ll bet that the pr…
The British actor Jack Holden is a good-looking guy with a profound ordinariness about him: a kind and expressive face, the barest hint of a paunch, and light brown hair combed up to suggest…
The creators of The Lost Boys, the new stage musical based on the cheesy 1987 teenage-vampire flick of the same name, know what you’re thinking. Early on, the owner of the local video stor…
August Wilson is arguably the greatest American playwright of the last century. In a remarkable career, particularly the 10-play saga set in each decade of the 20th century, he chronicled th…
Is there any experience quite as unsettling as a first date? Tom Noonan’s absorbing What Happened Was… captures the hopefulness, awkwardness, and gamesmanship of an evening spent by two …
There’s something almost quaint about The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical tribute to classic B-movies that had seemed like an outrageous one-finger salute to traditional mores when it …
More than a decade after its premiere at Virginia’s Signature Theatre, the stage adaptation of the 1988 big-screen melodrama Beaches has washed up on Broadway. Time and many years of devel…
Hell may be other people, but the most nefarious circle of Hades belongs to the neighbors who organize themselves into HOAs. David Lindsay-Abaire’s well-polished comedy The Balusters boast…
Schmigadoon!, a celebration and send-up of classic Broadway musicals that streamed for two seasons on Apple TV, has now made the inevitable if unnecessary transfer to the stage. Unlike last …
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Even after a century on the shelf, champagne doesn't always lose its fizz. Noël Coward's bubble-light 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, back on Broadway for the first time in 70 years, is a bit …
Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle are two of our finest screen performers, radiating an intelligence and likability that should serve them well in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Puli…
The latest film-to-stage adaptation to land on Broadway is a curious fact-based yarn about a Pennsylvania man unjustly convicted of a brutal rape and murder who sat on death row for two deca…
Elmer Rice, the grandson of 19th-century German-Jewish revolutionaries who wrote socially conscious plays in the early 20th century, is no longer the household name he once was. But you can …
TitanÃque, a sendup of the 1997 Oscar winner Titanic by way of the jukebox musical, shouldn't work. On paper, there's no reason to revisit James Cameron's bombastic big-screen blockbuster…
Some of our very best actors got their start in comedy " so it's only natural that sitcom veterans Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf should arrive on Broadway as that most deadly serious couple…
If there's any bygone hit musical that's ripe for reinvention, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic furball Cats " a 1981 musical megahit with mostly interchangeable characters crooning lite…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A narcissistic psychopath, an insecure dependent, a borderline, and a perpetual savior walk into a theater… and create one of the funniest and most…
Proximity to fame can do a number on one's self esteem. That's the big takeaway from Nicole Travolta Is Doing Alright, a gently comedic one-woman show by a personable and talented thirtysome…
Alexander Molochnikov was a rising theater director in Moscow until his outspoken denunciation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced him to flee to the United States. In Seagull: Tr…