‘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
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‘Yerma’ Theater Review: Federico Garcia Lorca Wouldn’t Recognize This Adaptation – or Claim It
The Young Vic’s freewheeling adaptation starring Billie Piper updates the story to contemporary London. Yerma is now called Her, which is the least of Her problems
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‘Lobby Hero’ Broadway Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Compare Their Guns
Sometimes movie stars make the segue to Broadway in high style
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‘Angels in America’ Broadway Review: Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane Battle for Life
Marianne Elliott puts the fantasy front and center in her National Theatre staging of Tony Kushner’s marathon drama
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‘Frozen’ Broadway Review: Disney’s Animated Hit Becomes Major Snow Job
Patti Murin and Jelani Alladin occasionally unthaw a rather frigid show
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‘Escape to Margaritaville’ Broadway Review: Jimmy Buffett Kicks Back a Few Too Many
A new musical takes its cue from Buffett’s odes to gluttony “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?”
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‘Admissions’ Theater Review: Joshua Harmon’s Comedy Dissects One Family’s Yale-or-Bust Insanity
In Harmon’s insightful new comedy, it’s the parents who may never recover from their child’s rejection
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‘Good for Otto’ Theater Review: Ed Harris and Amy Madigan Are Stranded in Podunkville
Various troubled souls stumbled into a mental health clinic in David Rabe’s purely cornball new drama
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‘The Low Road’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Aims High to Bring Down the Rich
The playwright delivers an uproarious indictment of power, privilege and totally deregulated capitalism
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‘Queens’ Theater Review: A Harrowing Look at Immigrant Women Trapped in America
In Martyna Majok’s new play, poor women from around the world encounter a war zone in a shared basement living space in Queens, N.Y.
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‘Amy and the Orphans’ Theater Review: ‘American Horror Story’ Star Jamie Brewer Steals the Spotlight
Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play recalls ’60s-era Neil Simon comedies — but she has a dramatic bomb up her sleeve
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‘The Amateurs’ Theater Review: Jordan Harrison’s New Comedy Upends Conventions
The “Marjorie Prime” playwright explodes the fourth wall in a wild, new look back at Noah and the ark
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‘An Ordinary Muslim’ Theater Review: Hammaad Chaudry Is No Ordinary Playwright
Chaudry’s riveting portrait of a Pakistani-Brit vividly recalls some of the angry young men of 1950s British theater: He’s railing against everything and everyone, including himself
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‘Jerry Springer – The Opera’ Theater Review: An Inept Descent Into Daytime-TV Hell
The musical never makes us feel complicit with the Springer TV audience. The talk-show host’s low-life, stupid, morbidly obese guests are there on stage simply to be mocked
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‘Kings’ Theater Review: Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington and Confronts Big, Bad Lobbyists
Sarah Burgess’ dialogue is often scintillating, and would be even more arresting if any of the characters budged from his or her original position
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‘Hangmen’ Theater Review: Martin McDonagh Gleefully Explores the Habit of Murder
After 233 legal murders, a retired executioner finds cause to return to what he does best in McDonagh’s new comedy
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‘Fire and Air’ Theater Review: Terrence McNally Attempts a Master Class in Ballet
Nijinsky and Diaghilev meet again, but produce more hot air than anything resembling real dramatic fire
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‘Cardinal’ Theater Review: Anna Chlumsky Struggles to Paint the Town Red
Greg Pierce’s new play leaves Chlumsky comically stranded, and she compensates by being flustered. Who wouldn’t be?
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‘Miles for Mary’ Theater Review: The Terror of Being Trapped in High School Forever
Six teachers aren’t so much politically correct as they are socially correct. Pity their students
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‘Ballyturk’ Theater Review: Godot Shows Up, at Last!
Enda Walsh reinvents Samuel Beckett. But the play’s best moments come from his direction, not his writing
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11 Best Theater Productions of 2017, From Oscar Isaac to ‘A Doll’s House Part 2’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Several young playwrights, from Annie Baker to Steven Levenson, help to revitalize the stage
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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
