10 Worst Theater Productions of 2017: From Michael Moore to ‘Amelie’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Plus, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley continue to plummet
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‘Farinelli and the King’ Broadway Review: Handel Upstages Mark Rylance
The actor puts his full arsenal of mannerisms on display to prevent countertenor Iestyn Davies from stealing the show
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‘The Children’ Broadway Review: How to Cope After a Nuclear Meltdown
Lucy Kirkwood has written a Big Issue play that recalls Martin McDonagh and Rod Serling, but goes to a much scarier place
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‘Describe the Night’ Theater Review: Delivering the Putin Backstory in a Grand Fashion
A play about totalitarianism and thought control could be painfully dreary in a Soviet sort of way. Rajiv Joseph’s flair for grand soap opera makes his three-hour play anything but
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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Broadway Review: Bouncy Tunes Keep Soggy Book Afloat
New show takes a less literal approach to its animated source material than “Shrek” or other recent family musicals
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‘Once on This Island’ Broadway Review: A Middling Musical Revival About a Long-Suffering Woman
What this put-upon heroine really needs is a someone named Gloria Allred
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‘Downtown Race Riot’ Theater Review: Chloe Sevigny Mixes Heroin and Mother Love
Sevigny’s portrayal of an often outrageous mother slaps an otherwise flaccid drama into shape
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‘The Parisian Woman’ Broadway Review: Uma Thurman Stirs Up Political Trouble in D.C.
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon updates his 2013 play to the era of Trump. And once again, Trump overshadows everything else
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‘Meteor Shower’ Broadway Review: Amy Schumer Sizzles, Steve Martin Fizzles
Schumer and Martin are not a match made in the heavens
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‘Harry Clarke’ Theater Review: Billy Crudup Visits a Patricia Highsmith Landscape
With his very erotic new thriller, David Cale adds sex where the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” put murder
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‘The Wolves’ Theater Review: What Happens When Young Women Reveal Their Inner Animal
Teenage empathy and competition spill out all over the AstroTurf in Sarah DeLappe’s amazing debut play
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‘School Girls’ Theater Review: How Tina Fey Inspired a Play Set in Ghana
Jocelyn Bioh’s new comedy shows how students on the other side of the world garble and digest American pop culture.
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‘Latin History for Morons’ Broadway Review: John Leguizamo Explains It All
Leguizamo turns our perceptions inside out, whether it’s about a mother’s funky leftovers or a nation’s mass genocide
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‘The Band’s Visit’ Broadway Review: Tony Shalhoub Leads Egyptian Musicians Into Israel
David Yazbek and Itamar Moses take the unlikely source material of Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film to deliver 2016’s best new musical
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‘Office Hour’ Theater Review: Portrait of a Would-Be Campus Assassin in Under 90 Minutes
Dramatic license should be revoked in Julia Cho’s new trolling-for-victims drama
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‘Junk’ Broadway Review: Boesky and Milken, the Vampires of Wall Street, Are Back
Ayad Akhtar’s new play tackles insider trading and other financial misdeeds as if it were 1989 all over again
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‘Illyria’ Theater Review: Joe Papp’s Company Presents a Warts-and-All Look at the Man
Richard Nelson’s new play is a must-see for anyone who cares about the theater. Just make sure you rent a listening device
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‘M. Butterfly’ Broadway Review: Clive Owen Falls for Peking’s Victor/Victoria
The actor breaks through the revamped play’s straight-face problems to deliver a riveting, tortured portrayal
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‘People, Places & Things’ Theater Review: Great Acting Is the Best Kind of High
Drug withdrawal becomes a trip through a malfunctioning disco in Duncan Macmillan’s new play
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‘The Portuguese Kid’ Theater Review: Even John Patrick Shanley’s Trump Jokes Don’t Land
Jason Alexander finds himself caught between a cartoon character and a real midlife crisis in Shanley’s new play
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‘Oedipus el Rey’ Theater Review: What Happens When Sophocles Takes His Viagra
Incest is naked and center stage in Luis Alfaro’s riveting new adaptation of the Greek tragedy
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‘The Last Match’ Theater Review: Tennis Without the Suspense or Drama
Two women play second fiddle to their tennis-star mates in Anna Ziegler’s new play. Who did they think they were screwing? An accountant?
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds
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‘Time and the Conways’ Broadway Review: Elizabeth McGovern Slams the Door on “Downton Abbey”
Director Rebecca Taichman turns a forgotten play into a guilty pleasure worth watching
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‘Discord’ Theater Review: It’s Bill Maher’s ‘Religulous’ for the Thinking Man
Scott Carter of “Real Time With Bill Maher” conjures up a seance with Dickens, Tolstoy and Jefferson to shred the Bible
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‘Prince of Broadway’ Review: Tribute to a Great Theater Producer and Director
This revue showcases some great songs exceptionally well sung. But the talent of Harold Prince goes largely unexplored
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‘The Terms of My Surrender’ Broadway Review: Michael Moore Visits Trump’s Hometown
The two men have so much in common, including a need for self-aggrandizement, victimhood and worshipful applause from their respective political bases
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‘A Parallelogram’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Gives Nihilism a Good Name
This gentle comedy is like the Midas Touch, teaching us how our fondest dream can turn into a living nightmare
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‘Hamlet’ Theater Review: Oscar Isaac Strips to His Skivvies in Earthy Revival
Keegan-Michael Key co-stars in Sam Gold’s radical re-interpretation of the Bard’s classic drama
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‘Pipeline’ Theater Review: Dominique Morisseau Shows How School Can Be Hell on Earth
The co-producer of Showtime’s “Shameless” writes a riveting portrait of a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown
