‘Straight White Men’ Broadway Review: Typecasting Armie Hammer and Josh Charles
In their Broadway debuts, the actors play male types we’ve seen them embody in far better movies and TV shows
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‘The Damned’ Theater Review: Ivo van Hove Wrestles Luchino Visconti and Loses
A classic film about Nazis has been turned into a Lillian Hellman melodrama, one that is best titled “The Big Foxes”
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‘Fire in Dreamland’ Theater Review: Should Jeff Sessions Be Targeting Dutch Immigrants?
Under its forced whimsy, Rinne Groff’s new play offers odd messages about immigrants and abortion
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‘Trainspotting’ Theater Review: The Needles Are Real, the Other Stuff Is Not
Harry Gibson’s adaptation makes for extraordinary immersive theater under Adam Spreadbury-Maher’s direction
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‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Theater Review: Tatiana Maslany Stands Out in Tracy Letts’ Jumbled New Drama
The playwright uses the fractured chronology of David Hare’s “Plenty” to ill effect
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‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ Theater Review: Even Barbra Streisand Couldn’t Make This Musical Work
The latest revival showcases Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s great score but doesn’t solve the problems of Lerner’s flawed book
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‘Girls & Boys’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan Says the Kids Aren’t All Right
Dennis Kelly’s play makes it clear who deserves all the blame, the women or the men
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‘Carmen Jones’ Theater Review: Anika Noni Rose Goes from Dreamgirl to Total Femme Fatale
Georges Bizet purists may squawk, but Oscar Hammerstein II’s novel reworking of the opera warhorse is more than ready for a big Broadway revival
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‘Cyprus Avenue’ Theater Review: Stephen Rea Goes for Overkill
David Ireland’s play explores the psyche of a Belfast bigot
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‘Log Cabin’ Theater Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Fathers a Baby Against All Odds
Jordan Harrison’s comedy looks at the new war of words in the LGBT dictionary
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‘Skintight’ Theater Review: Idina Menzel Masterfully Proves Ageism Is a Guy Thing
Joshua Harmon writes another provocative comedy about pampered, affluent white people. They’re all just one skin peel away from happiness
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‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ Theater Review: The Earth Grandmother Steals the Show
Donja R. Love’s new play stars the phenomenal Stephanie Berry, who dwarfs the same-sex love affair at its core
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‘Pass Over’ Theater Review: When the White Man Is an Alien From Another Planet
Antoinette Nwandu’s play is as scarily funny as it is clear in exploring many forms of violent persecution
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Tony Awards Predictions 2018: Prizes Cometh for Denzel Washington, ‘Harry Potter’ and Tina Fey
Famous writer of “Mean Girls” may even bump Best Book of a Musical category to rare primetime berth
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‘The Boys in the Band’ Broadway Review: Jim Parsons Hosts the Nastiest Birthday Party Ever
“Big Bang Theory” star brings his genial persona to a zinger-filled night that also features Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells
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‘Dance Nation’ Theater Review: Why No One Ever Really Escapes Adolescence
Clare Barron’s quirky new play treats young girls like women and the boy among them like a prop
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‘Summer and Smoke’ Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Sets Off Sparks Among the Dross
Marin Ireland and Nathan Darrow sizzle, but some crude plot mechanics keep this rarity from entering the Williams pantheon of great plays
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Tony Award Nomination Predictions 2018: From ‘Harry Potter’ to Denzel Washington in ‘Iceman Cometh’
Nathan Lane leads the competitive race Best Featured Actor race, but in other categories it’s sometimes enough just to have opened on Broadway this season
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‘The Iceman Cometh’ Broadway Review: Denzel Washington Is on a Mission
His Hickey is a fired-up evangelist set loose among an expressionistic freak show in George C. Wolfe’s revelatory staging of the O’Neill classic
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‘Saint Joan’ Broadway Review: Condola Rashad Burns Up the Stage
The actress is joined by a troupe of men who also know how to play the play’s many contradictions
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‘Summer’ Broadway Review: It’s Winter for Queen of Disco Donna Summer
It’s not much of creative trajectory that takes Donna Summer from “Love to Love You, Baby” to “Hot Stuff”
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway Review: JK Rowling’s Wizards in a Father-Son Battle
John Thorne’s two-part “Cursed Child” play is great children’s theater that in no way attempts to replicate the movies visually
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‘My Fair Lady’ Broadway Review: Lauren Ambrose Would Even Wow George Bernard Shaw
Norbert Leo Butz and Diana Rigg are luxury casting in supporting roles, and Harry Hadden-Paton stages an emotional meltdown as Henry Higgins
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‘Mlima’s Tale’ Theater Review: Lynn Nottage’s Story of the Real Elephant Man
Nottage is much better at anthropomorphizing her lead elephant than any of the human characters
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‘Carousel’ Broadway Review: A Classic Show Gets the Classic Production It Deserves
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical receives the star treatment under Jack O’Brien’s superb direction
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‘Children of a Lesser God’ Theater Review: Joshua Jackson Must Speak for Two in Broadway Debut
Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play returns to find itself rocked by the #MeToo movement
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‘Miss You Like Hell’ Theater Review: A Road Trip That Runs on High-Octane Music
Daphne Rubin-Vega brings her hyper-intensity to an engaging, and ultimately heartbreaking, new musical
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‘This Flat Earth’ Theater Review: Gun Violence in Schools Takes Center Stage
After the recent success of her play “Amy and the Orphans,” Lindsey Ferrentino follows up with a muddled drama set in the aftermath of “another” school shooting
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‘Mean Girls’ Broadway Review: Tina Fey’s Nasty Teens Now Sing, Dance and Recycle
Fey’s one-liners are still funny after all these years. But most of the originality comes from Casey Nicholaw’s choreography and direction of a very talented young cast
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‘Three Tall Women’ Broadway Review: Glenda Jackson Charges Into the Night
Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill also tower in the first Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s masterpiece
