‘Tina’ Broadway Review: Adrienne Warren Captures Tina Turner’s Distinctive Bray of a Voice
The new jukebox musical highlights a unique showbiz mother, but otherwise sticks to the rules of the genre
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‘Cyrano’ Theater Review: Peter Dinklage Drops the Big Schnoz to Sing
The ”Game of Thrones“ star headlines a musical adaptation of the classic play, playing a hero who’s masochistic rather than noble
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‘Seared’ Theater Review: Raúl Esparza Sizzles in Theresa Rebeck’s New Top-Chef Comedy
Rebeck cooks up a storm in her raucously funny new play about genius in the kitchen
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‘The Michaels’ Theater Review: Dinner Is Served Yet Again, Richard Nelson-Style
The writer-director continues his Rhinebeck, New York, series. Nelson veterans will know what to expect
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‘For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad’ Theater Review: Zawe Ashton’s Pregnancy Drama Has Teeth
The actor-writer creates an ”I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can“ for the new century, only much more complicated
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‘Scotland, PA’ Theater Review: Macbeth Flips Burgers in This McDreadful Musical
The new stage show takes the 2001 movie and makes it as witty and fun as a McDonald’s commercial from 1975
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‘Bella Bella’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Presents a Trumpian Candidate on the Left
Bella Abzug here has all the depth, nuance, and bluster of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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‘Is This a Room’ Theater Review: A Staged Interrogation of a Whistleblower Named Reality Winner
Tina Satter staging concerns a forgotten chapter in the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The bad guy is the heroine
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‘Forbidden Broadway’ Theater Review: Judy Garland Impersonates Renée Zellweger & Other Gems
Musical theater’s favorite parody show returns with brickbats for Ben Platt, Billy Porter, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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‘The Sound Inside’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker Writes Up a Storm in Riveting New Drama
Adam Rapp’s new play mesmerizes in its exploration of the creative process
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‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Theater Review: Christian Borle to the Rescue in Jonathan Groff-Led Revival
The actor makes bad behavior grossly appealing. Groff and co-star Tammy Blanchard exude somewhat less comic helium
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‘The Lightning Thief’ Broadway Review: Half-God, Half Mortal Percy Jackson Makes the Leap to Stage Musical
Rick Riordan’s series of young-adult novels is now a Broadway musical, fit for the kids if not the gods
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‘The Rose Tattoo’ Broadway Review: Marisa Tomei Goes Full Fellini
The actress stirs up a storm, kicking Tennessee Williams’s little comedy right off the Gulf Coast
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‘Soft Power’ Theater Review: Hillary Clinton Takes a Chinese Lover in David Henry Hwang’s New Musical
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori turn ”The King and I“ upside down and nothing but political nonsense dribbles out
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Delivers a Great TV Pilot Before Getting Nasty
Men can be jerks, and Ian Banford plays one of the biggest in Lett’s new play, which is half sitcom, half dirge
