‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
Christopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s novel into a nightmare of a play that exhausts, but in a fascinating way
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Tony Awards 2019: We Predict the Nominees, From ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to ‘Tootsie’
Expect a lot of love for Daniel Fish’s radical new revival of “Oklahoma!”
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: Tim Burton’s Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
Alex Brightman plays Michael Keaton’s character from the 1988 big-screen comedy
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‘Ink’ Broadway Review: Rupert Murdoch Gets Hit With a Puff Piece
James Graham’s play treats the mogul’s revamp of tabloid journalism like a Broadway musical, and not a very serious one
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‘Tootsie’ Broadway Review: Santino Fontana Can’t Fill Dustin Hoffman’s Heels in New Musical
In composer David Yazbek’s musical version of the 1982 Oscar winner, cross-dressing heroine Dorothy Michaels doesn’t learn a thing
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‘All My Sons’ Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the Awful Truth
The two actors deliver powerful performances in an otherwise unfocused revival of Arthur Miller’s play
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‘The Pain of My Belligerence’ Theater Review: Young Woman on the Verge of Getting Fired
Maybe the New Yorker is part of Halley Feiffer’s world. It’s definitely not something her character reads, much less writes for
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‘Gary’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Cleans Up a Big, Bloody and Inspired Mess
The actor scores in Taylor Mac’s demented new comedy, which manages to improve mightily on Shakespeare’s worst play
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Play Politics as That Couple
Lucas Hnath’s tragicomedy examines the most unfair marriage on Earth. Or anywhere else, for that matter
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‘Burn This’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
The actors perform a very lively parody of Lanford Wilson’s play about a woman who chooses the wrong Neanderthal
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‘Socrates’ Theater Review: Michael Stuhlbarg Teaches Us Everything
The actor rakes democracy over the coals of time in Tim Blake Nelson’s great new play
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‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’ Theater Review: Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming Rebury Marilyn Monroe
Anne Carson’s opaque new play with music performs the unique trick of mangling both Euripides and Monroe
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‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Theater Review: The Union Organizer Fumbles It Again
John Doyle takes the “go green” approach to Marc Blitzstein’s quasi-classic
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‘Do You Feel Anger?’ Theater Review: Beware Justin Long and Other Office Clowns
The crazies rule in Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s offbeat new comedy set in a debt collection agency
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Theater Review: Sam Mendes Directs a Family’s Financial Undoing
Stefano Massini’s saga of an American empire gone belly up makes its American debut
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‘Ain’t No Mo” Theater Review: Barack Obama Pilots a One-Way Flight to Africa in This Sharp Satire
The U.S. government makes an offer that black people can’t refuse in Jordan E. Cooper’s astounding new play
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‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Broadway Review: The Temptations Fight the Grind of Fame
A star-making turn by Ephraim Sykes, playing the late David Ruffin, proves that one performer is sometimes greater than the group
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‘White Noise’ Theater Review: Daveed Diggs Dazzles in Suzan-Lori Parks’ New Race Fantasy
The Tony-winning “Hamilton” actor just wants a good night’s sleep
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‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ Theater Review: John Guare Takes a Big Dip Off the Island
Fast and furious is not always a good thing in the theater. Guare’s new comedy exhausts more than it engages
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‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase Are So in Love
She’s a movie star slumming in her ex-husband’s second-rate production of the “Shrew.” Cole Porter and the Bard would approve.
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‘The Mother’ Theater Review: An Empty Nest Imprisons Isabelle Huppert
Chris Noth joins the actress in Florian Zeller’s latest exploration into parental madness
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‘Be More Chill’ Broadway Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on Broadway with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhf–a’ Theater Review: That Title Is a Problem
Muhf–a? Tori Sampson just lost her core audience for this cautionary tale about teens who think looks are everything
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‘The Cake’ Theater Review: ‘That ’70s Show’ Mom Debra Jo Rupp Plays a Lovable Bigot
Cute homophobes meet loving lesbians in a North Carolina bakery in Bekah Brunstetter’s sermon of a play
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‘Daddy’ Theater Review: Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet Discover Lust in a Bel-Air Pool
Regression and mutual exploitation are the hallmarks of an art-world affair in Jeremy O. Harris’ brilliant new play
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‘Superhero’ Theater Review: Tom Kitt and John Logan’s New Musical Creates an Extraordinary Ex-Bus Driver
Bryce Pinkham finds another eccentric/bizarre/screwed-up character to call his own
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‘Alice by Heart’ Theater Review: Lewis Carroll Gets Stuck in a London Tube in Duncan Sheik’s Musical
Another stage adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” fails to re-create the magic of the original
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‘Marys Seacole’ Theater Review: 2 Jamaican Nurses Bring Comfort to an Alien World
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, caregivers speak to each other across the centuries to find that little has changed
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‘Hurricane Diane’ Theater Review: Dionysus Returns as a Lesbian Landscaper
Madeleine George’s new comedy recalls Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women” and Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”
