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‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Returns to the Stage
Even the star’s credible singing and dancing in “How to Succeed in Business” never brought to mind Hollywood’s great song-and-dance man. But in Martin McDonagh’s play, Radcliffe does a real James Cagney
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‘Violet’ Theater Review: Sutton Foster Headlines Broadway’s Latest Cinderella Story
Leigh Silverman’s direction puts the broad back in Broadway
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‘Act One’ Theater Review: Tony Shalhoub Does Triple Duty in Moss Hart Memoir
Former “Monk” star’s many physical transformations emerge as one of the production’s greatest pleasures and its major element of suspense
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‘Of Mice and Men’ Theater Review: James Franco, Chris O’Dowd Bring Vibrant and Poignant Life to Steinbeck Revival
Franco completely abandons any trace of the laconic slacker that’s defined his best-known screen portrayals
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‘The Library’ Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh, Scott Z. Burns Take Aim at Gun Violence
Chloe Grace Moretz is the bad girl in this scenario carried forth on nonstop cable news, and the actress’s fine performance, a stage debut, helps to keep us intrigued, if not always sympathetic
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‘Bullets Over Broadway’ Theater Review: Woody Allen, Zach Braff and Very Large Dancing Hot Dogs
Susan Stroman achieves a level of low vulgarity not encountered even among the non-stop obscenities of “The Book of Mormon” in her staging of the Woody Allen musical
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‘The Realistic Joneses’ Theater Review: Michael C. Hall Confronts Eternity and Owls on Broadway
Will Eno’s dialogue isn’t just off-kilter, it’s way off center, and both Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts handle the dazzling wordplay with great deadpan wit. But Toni Collette is left with one of the most thanklessly reactive roles in all of 21st century drama
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‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Theater Review: Denzel Washington Looks Back and Forward in Anger
With his bravura performance, Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction
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‘Heathers: The Musical’ Theater Review: Singing and Killing People All the Way to the Prom
Imagine the wound-up, overly fraught Ida Lupino trying to play a distressed teenager, and you have Barrett Wilbert Weed’s Veronica. At age 16, Winona Ryder never went there.
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‘If/Then’ Theater Review: Idina Menzel Lets It Go and Go
The switching back and forth in a film like “Sliding Doors” is easier to follow but it doesn’t have the pleasures on the stage, where the physical space never changes and the lead character goes to bed with one man but wakes up with another
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‘Breathing Time’ Theater Review: Beau Willimon Enters Mamet Territory
Willimon is especially good at having one of his characters drop a little bomb of information that takes the audience completely by surprise
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‘Mothers and Sons’ Theater Review: Tyne Daly and Frederick Weller Slug It Out on Central Park West
Tyne Daly gets some of the evening’s biggest laughs without even saying a word in Terrence McNally’s new play
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‘Aladdin’ Theater Review: Disney’s Animation Team Got It Right the First Time
Disney Theatricals turns the Genie into a big show queen in padded Broadway adaptation of the animated hit
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‘Rocky’ Theater Review: Sylvester Stallone’s Boxer Comes Out Swinging and Singing
The problem with the “Rocky” musical is that Stallone’s script was pretty sodden even back in 1976
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‘All the Way’ Theater Review: Bryan Cranston Brings His Wildly Funny LBJ to Broadway
Since much of what Cranston says onstage is delivered directly to the audience, it sometimes appears as if he’s auditioning to be a stand-up comic
