‘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”
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Steps Backward
The composer’s most famous flop is now shorter and cast with only six actors. It still doesn’t work
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‘Switzerland’ Theater Review: Patricia Highsmith Takes Another Shot at Ripley
The author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Strangers on a Train” finds herself stranded in the Alps
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‘The Light’ Theater Review: The Battle of the Sexes in the Post-Brett Kavanaugh Era
Loy A. Webb’s remarkable new play begins as a staged essay but ends up charting the disintegration of a very real romance
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‘My Fair Lady’ Broadway Review: Laura Benanti’s Eliza Doolittle Suffers a Midlife Crisis
This flower girl is all grown up and more than ready to stop selling flowers
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‘True West’ Broadway Review: Ethan Hawke Soars, Paul Dano Flits in Sam Shepard Drama
The two brothers in Shepard’s play are supposed to be different but not this different
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‘Eddie and Dave’ Theater Review: What a Drag! Van Halen Reimagined With Women as Classic Rockers
Amy Staats’ new comedy lampoons Van Halen by showing the men for what they really are
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‘Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State’ Theater Review: How Not to Pick Sides in 2019
The stand-up comic’s latest show will offend no one. And that’s a problem
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‘Trick or Treat’ Theater Review: Everything Bad Happens on Halloween
Jack Neary’s new play is a little like watching “Arsenic and Old Lace”… if the old aunts had Alzheimer’s and wore Depends
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‘Blue Ridge’ Theater Review: Smart, Angry and Trapped in a North Carolina Recovery Center
Marin Ireland finds no escape from herself in Abby Rosebrock’s fine new play
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10 Worst Theater Productions of 2018, From Jimmy Buffett to ‘King Kong’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Only in retrospect do the year’s biggest misfires bring smiles to a theatergoer’s face
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10 Best Theater Productions of 2018, From ‘Ferryman’ to ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Visionary directors delivered amazing revivals of “My Fair Lady,” “Oklahoma!” and “Three Tall Women,” but great new plays dominated this year
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‘Network’ Broadway Review: Bryan Cranston Conjures a Burnt-Out Bill O’Reilly
Director Ivo van Hove’s kinetic, immersive production dominates until Paddy Chayevsky’s moralizing takes over in the show’s second half
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‘The Cher Show’ Broadway Review: Stephanie J Block Is Strong Enough to Be the Real Star
The new musical recycles all the originality and wit of old network TV
