‘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
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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
