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
Sarah Burgess’ dialogue is often scintillating, and would be even more arresting if any of the characters budged from his or her original position
After 233 legal murders, a retired executioner finds cause to return to what he does best in McDonagh’s new comedy
Nijinsky and Diaghilev meet again, but produce more hot air than anything resembling real dramatic fire
Greg Pierce’s new play leaves Chlumsky comically stranded, and she compensates by being flustered. Who wouldn’t be?
Six teachers aren’t so much politically correct as they are socially correct. Pity their students
Enda Walsh reinvents Samuel Beckett. But the play’s best moments come from his direction, not his writing
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Several young playwrights, from Annie Baker to Steven Levenson, help to revitalize the stage
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Plus, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley continue to plummet
The actor puts his full arsenal of mannerisms on display to prevent countertenor Iestyn Davies from stealing the show
Lucy Kirkwood has written a Big Issue play that recalls Martin McDonagh and Rod Serling, but goes to a much scarier place
A play about totalitarianism and thought control could be painfully dreary in a Soviet sort of way. Rajiv Joseph’s flair for grand soap opera makes his three-hour play anything but
New show takes a less literal approach to its animated source material than “Shrek” or other recent family musicals
What this put-upon heroine really needs is a someone named Gloria Allred
Sevigny’s portrayal of an often outrageous mother slaps an otherwise flaccid drama into shape
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon updates his 2013 play to the era of Trump. And once again, Trump overshadows everything else
Schumer and Martin are not a match made in the heavens
With his very erotic new thriller, David Cale adds sex where the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” put murder
Teenage empathy and competition spill out all over the AstroTurf in Sarah DeLappe’s amazing debut play
Jocelyn Bioh’s new comedy shows how students on the other side of the world garble and digest American pop culture.
Leguizamo turns our perceptions inside out, whether it’s about a mother’s funky leftovers or a nation’s mass genocide
David Yazbek and Itamar Moses take the unlikely source material of Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film to deliver 2016’s best new musical
Dramatic license should be revoked in Julia Cho’s new trolling-for-victims drama
Ayad Akhtar’s new play tackles insider trading and other financial misdeeds as if it were 1989 all over again
Richard Nelson’s new play is a must-see for anyone who cares about the theater. Just make sure you rent a listening device
The actor breaks through the revamped play’s straight-face problems to deliver a riveting, tortured portrayal
Drug withdrawal becomes a trip through a malfunctioning disco in Duncan Macmillan’s new play
Jason Alexander finds himself caught between a cartoon character and a real midlife crisis in Shanley’s new play
Incest is naked and center stage in Luis Alfaro’s riveting new adaptation of the Greek tragedy
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?
