‘School Girls’ Theater Review: How Tina Fey Inspired a Play Set in Ghana
Jocelyn Bioh’s new comedy shows how students on the other side of the world garble and digest American pop culture.
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‘Latin History for Morons’ Broadway Review: John Leguizamo Explains It All
Leguizamo turns our perceptions inside out, whether it’s about a mother’s funky leftovers or a nation’s mass genocide
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‘The Band’s Visit’ Broadway Review: Tony Shalhoub Leads Egyptian Musicians Into Israel
David Yazbek and Itamar Moses take the unlikely source material of Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film to deliver 2016’s best new musical
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‘Office Hour’ Theater Review: Portrait of a Would-Be Campus Assassin in Under 90 Minutes
Dramatic license should be revoked in Julia Cho’s new trolling-for-victims drama
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‘Junk’ Broadway Review: Boesky and Milken, the Vampires of Wall Street, Are Back
Ayad Akhtar’s new play tackles insider trading and other financial misdeeds as if it were 1989 all over again
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‘Illyria’ Theater Review: Joe Papp’s Company Presents a Warts-and-All Look at the Man
Richard Nelson’s new play is a must-see for anyone who cares about the theater. Just make sure you rent a listening device
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‘M. Butterfly’ Broadway Review: Clive Owen Falls for Peking’s Victor/Victoria
The actor breaks through the revamped play’s straight-face problems to deliver a riveting, tortured portrayal
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‘People, Places & Things’ Theater Review: Great Acting Is the Best Kind of High
Drug withdrawal becomes a trip through a malfunctioning disco in Duncan Macmillan’s new play
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‘The Portuguese Kid’ Theater Review: Even John Patrick Shanley’s Trump Jokes Don’t Land
Jason Alexander finds himself caught between a cartoon character and a real midlife crisis in Shanley’s new play
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‘Oedipus el Rey’ Theater Review: What Happens When Sophocles Takes His Viagra
Incest is naked and center stage in Luis Alfaro’s riveting new adaptation of the Greek tragedy
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‘The Last Match’ Theater Review: Tennis Without the Suspense or Drama
Two women play second fiddle to their tennis-star mates in Anna Ziegler’s new play. Who did they think they were screwing? An accountant?
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds
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‘Time and the Conways’ Broadway Review: Elizabeth McGovern Slams the Door on “Downton Abbey”
Director Rebecca Taichman turns a forgotten play into a guilty pleasure worth watching
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‘Discord’ Theater Review: It’s Bill Maher’s ‘Religulous’ for the Thinking Man
Scott Carter of “Real Time With Bill Maher” conjures up a seance with Dickens, Tolstoy and Jefferson to shred the Bible
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‘Prince of Broadway’ Review: Tribute to a Great Theater Producer and Director
This revue showcases some great songs exceptionally well sung. But the talent of Harold Prince goes largely unexplored
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‘The Terms of My Surrender’ Broadway Review: Michael Moore Visits Trump’s Hometown
The two men have so much in common, including a need for self-aggrandizement, victimhood and worshipful applause from their respective political bases
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‘A Parallelogram’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Gives Nihilism a Good Name
This gentle comedy is like the Midas Touch, teaching us how our fondest dream can turn into a living nightmare
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‘Hamlet’ Theater Review: Oscar Isaac Strips to His Skivvies in Earthy Revival
Keegan-Michael Key co-stars in Sam Gold’s radical re-interpretation of the Bard’s classic drama
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‘Pipeline’ Theater Review: Dominique Morisseau Shows How School Can Be Hell on Earth
The co-producer of Showtime’s “Shameless” writes a riveting portrait of a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Tony Awards 2017 Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Should Win – From ‘Oslo’ to ‘Hello, Dolly!’
Kevin Spacey will host this Sunday’s show celebrating the best of Broadway
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‘Cost of Living’ Theater Review: But Who’s Taking Care of the Caretakers?
Martyna Majok’s new play explores the lives of those underpaid people who care for others and, in turn, have no one to care for them
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‘Animal’ Theater Review: Rebecca Hall Endures an Extraordinary Journey
Despite a “Snake Pit” ending, Clare Lizzimore’s drama turns one woman’s mental descent into a theatrical tour de force
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‘The End of Longing’ Theater Review: Matthew Perry Recycles as Both Playwright and Star
What begins as a sexy, trite sitcom turns into the kind of treacly TV drama that populated the major networks before cable came to the rescue
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‘Building the Wall’ Theater Review: A View of Post-Trump America Both Powerful and Preposterous
Just when you think the revelations in Robert Schenkkan’s new play can’t get any darker, they turn a deeper shade of black
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‘Can You Forgive Her?’ Theater Review: Amber Tamblyn Copes With Extreme Student Debt
Her character finds a sugar daddy, played by Frank Wood, who steals the show (after it’s almost over)
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‘The Whirligig’ Theater Review: Zosia Mamet Climbs a Tree on Guilt Trip
Hamish Linklater’s new play about substance abuse in old New England often leaves its fine young cast grasping for big effects
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‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Theater Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
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‘Arlington’ Theater Review: Enda Walsh Revisits a Few Dystopian Classics
The playwright conjures up ideas and images from “1984,” “Mara and Dann,” and “Blade Runner”
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‘Pacific Overtures’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Survives the Scissors
John Doyle’s staging has humor, thanks to the inspired casting of Ann Harada. But why trim Sondheim’s score?
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Tony Award Nominations Predictions: Hello, Bette Midler and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
The nominations for the 2016-17 Broadway season will be announced Tuesday. Since fewer than 40 shows are eligible, the competition is not always fierce
