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‘Outside Mullingar’ Theater Review: John Patrick Shanley Returns to ‘Moonstruck’ Turf Via Ireland
Compared to Debra Messing and Brian F. O’Byrne’s long courtship here, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s wait for Godot a few blocks away at the Cort seems comparatively brief in theater time
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‘Machinal’ Theater Review: Rebecca Hall Wins by Losing It in Her Broadway Debut
This dazzling Roundabout Theater production often recalls an urban contradiction that is a hallmark of Edward Hopper’s paintings: loneliness coupled with a total lack of privacy.
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‘Beautiful’ Theater Review: The New Carole King Musical Has the Guts to Play It Nice
Here is arguably the nicest, most normal, least eccentric personality ever to be at the center of a Broadway musical. “Beautiful” is the show for theatergoers who don’t like drama queens. Is there such an animal?
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‘Waiting for Godot’ & ‘No Man’s Land’ Theater Review: Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Lighten Up on the Angst
For sheer laughs per minute, these two stars deliver the goods as if they were instead performing a farce by Alan Ayckbourn or Christopher Durang
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‘Macbeth’ Theater Review: Ethan Hawke Stars in a Movie-Friendly Staging
Director Jack O’Brien lets us know that this is a very human-scale drama, but later in the play you may wonder who’s that horrible couple everybody’s gossiping about
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‘The Commons of Pensacola’ Theater Review: Blythe Danner Rocks, Sarah Jessica Parker Recyles
Amanda Peet’s “The Commons of Pensacola” belongs to that class of TV pilots that never get picked up and instead take up residence in Hollywood’s tiny store-front theaters
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‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ Theater Review: Broadway’s Tops ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’
Darko Tresnjak directs a compact, wickedly witty new musical. Especially delightful is the cheesy execution of the show’s hysterically funny murders
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‘Domesticated’ Theater Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays the Lowest of the Low
After taking on the racial divide in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Clybourne Park,” Bruce Norris returns to examine the war of the sexes in an equally funny and scathing comedy
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‘Betrayal’ Theater Review: James Bond’s a Loutish Cuckold
It’s a marvel of acting to watch Daniel Craig slowly bring the subtext of raging anger to the fore in scene after scene of this Harold Pinter revival
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‘The Snow Geese’ Theater Review: Mary-Louise Parker Gets Lost in the Weeds
The characters unburden themselves of so much complicated history in the first moments that you might consider retitling it “Autumn: Onondaga County”
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‘The Landing’ Theater Review: The New John Kander Musical’s for People Who Don’t Like Musicals
David Hyde Pierce stars in John Kander’s first musical without longtime collaborator Fred Ebb, and there’s not a showgirl or boy in sight.
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‘A Time to Kill’ Theater Review: John Grisham’s Tale Should Have Settled Out of Court
When you strip Grisham’s panoramic tale of racism and injustice down to a courtroom drama, there really isn’t much of a trial at the heart of it
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‘Big Fish’ Theater Review: It Sings, It Dances, but Wait — Isn’t That ‘The Little Mermaid’?
The Tim Burton movie is now a musical, which is at its best when it thinks small and sticks to Daniel Wallace’s novel.
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‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Review: Ben Stiller’s Daydreamer Tries Too Hard
Stiller’s “Mitty” tries so hard that his adventures — both real and imagined– are neither intriguing nor amusing
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‘The Glass Menagerie’ Theater Review: Zachary Quinto Goes for the Jugular
“Star Trek” star segues from space to stage in a class-act “Menagerie”
