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‘It’s Only a Play’ Theater Review: Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick Remain Broadway’s Funniest Team
A savvy director helps bring life to the scorched-earth approach to comedy
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‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Theater Review: Now on Broadway, Soon to Be a Movie
“War Horse” director Marianne Elliott embellishes Simon Stephens’ play with lots of razzle-dazzle lighting and videos, but Elliott tends to turn her minor characters into gross caricatures
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‘The Country House’ Theater Review: Blythe Danner Plays a Mommie Chilliest
After playing good cop to Robert De Niro’s bad cop in all those “Focker” movies, it’s fun to see Danner let go with a bad mother character
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‘You Can’t Take It With You’ Theater Review: Rose Byrne Debuts, James Earl Jones Floats
The light airiness of Jones’ performance provides just the right launching pad for others to soar and bring down the rafters
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‘Scenes from a Marriage’ Theater Review: Ingmar Bergman, Funnier and Even Bleaker Than Before
Ivo van Hove directs the first must-see event of the 2014-15 theater season.
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‘The Money Shot’ Theater Review: Neil LaBute Delivers a Poison-Pen Note to Hollywood
For anyone familiar with this playwright-director’s work, it will come as no surprise that a very good-looking, buff guy will be outmatched by the lesbian on stage
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‘Love Letters’ Theater Review: Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy Perform Postcards from Their Hedge Fund
There are no OMGs or WTFs in these missives, but Mia Farrow does elicit a few laughs with some well-placed expletives and a heartfelt performance
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‘This Is Our Youth’ Theater Review: Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin Get Serious in Broadway Debuts
Daring casting of the young actors pays off as Culkin delivers a performance with the surreal ferocity of Robert Downey Jr
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‘Poor Behavior’ Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck Scores a Real Smash Off Broadway
Director Evan Cabnet keeps the plot line crackling nicely, even delivering a Grand Guignol touch right out of “Wait Until Dark”
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‘The Maids’ Theater Review: Cate Blanchett Enters the Camp Pantheon Wearing Alexander McQueen
When the distraught actress looks into the bathroom mirror to reapply her makeup, nobody smears lipstick with the panache of Blanchett
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‘The Long Shrift’ Theater Review: James Franco Adds Another Credit to His Ever-Expanding Resume
Robert Boswell’s new play is not a comedy, but James Franco, making his directorial stage debut, goes for a few laughs that only expose the story’s flaws
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‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ Theater Review: Tupac Shakur Resists a Broadway Makeover
Todd Kreidler’s book can’t match the power of Shakur’s stark and bracing poetry
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‘Cabaret’ Theater Review: Michelle Williams Tackles Sally Bowles, Alan Cumming Auditions for ‘Hedwig’
Williams sports a Giulietta Masina peroxide job, and her first number is strictly geared for the pedophiles at the Kit Kat Klub
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‘Casa Valentina’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Lifts the Skirts of Hetero Crossdressers
In the Playbill, the playwright tells us not to call his characters “drag queens” or “female impersonators.” And that’s not the end of his sermonizing
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‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Theater Review: Neil Patrick Harris Crosses Over to the Glam Side
The star recalls Marlene Dietrich, Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz, in his role as Hedwig, an edgy, angry, bitchy transgender rocker
