‘On the Town’ Theater Review: Sailors on Leave, Broads on the Make
In John Rando’s fun, new Broadway revival, everyone dances like there’s no tomorrow in wartime New York
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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
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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
