‘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
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‘The Amateurs’ Theater Review: Jordan Harrison’s New Comedy Upends Conventions
The “Marjorie Prime” playwright explodes the fourth wall in a wild, new look back at Noah and the ark
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‘An Ordinary Muslim’ Theater Review: Hammaad Chaudry Is No Ordinary Playwright
Chaudry’s riveting portrait of a Pakistani-Brit vividly recalls some of the angry young men of 1950s British theater: He’s railing against everything and everyone, including himself
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‘Jerry Springer – The Opera’ Theater Review: An Inept Descent Into Daytime-TV Hell
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
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‘Kings’ Theater Review: Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington and Confronts Big, Bad Lobbyists
Sarah Burgess’ dialogue is often scintillating, and would be even more arresting if any of the characters budged from his or her original position
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‘Hangmen’ Theater Review: Martin McDonagh Gleefully Explores the Habit of Murder
After 233 legal murders, a retired executioner finds cause to return to what he does best in McDonagh’s new comedy
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‘Fire and Air’ Theater Review: Terrence McNally Attempts a Master Class in Ballet
Nijinsky and Diaghilev meet again, but produce more hot air than anything resembling real dramatic fire
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‘Cardinal’ Theater Review: Anna Chlumsky Struggles to Paint the Town Red
Greg Pierce’s new play leaves Chlumsky comically stranded, and she compensates by being flustered. Who wouldn’t be?
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‘Miles for Mary’ Theater Review: The Terror of Being Trapped in High School Forever
Six teachers aren’t so much politically correct as they are socially correct. Pity their students
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‘Ballyturk’ Theater Review: Godot Shows Up, at Last!
Enda Walsh reinvents Samuel Beckett. But the play’s best moments come from his direction, not his writing
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11 Best Theater Productions of 2017, From Oscar Isaac to ‘A Doll’s House Part 2’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Several young playwrights, from Annie Baker to Steven Levenson, help to revitalize the stage
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10 Worst Theater Productions of 2017: From Michael Moore to ‘Amelie’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Plus, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley continue to plummet
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‘Farinelli and the King’ Broadway Review: Handel Upstages Mark Rylance
The actor puts his full arsenal of mannerisms on display to prevent countertenor Iestyn Davies from stealing the show
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‘The Children’ Broadway Review: How to Cope After a Nuclear Meltdown
Lucy Kirkwood has written a Big Issue play that recalls Martin McDonagh and Rod Serling, but goes to a much scarier place
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‘Describe the Night’ Theater Review: Delivering the Putin Backstory in a Grand Fashion
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
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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Broadway Review: Bouncy Tunes Keep Soggy Book Afloat
New show takes a less literal approach to its animated source material than “Shrek” or other recent family musicals
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‘Once on This Island’ Broadway Review: A Middling Musical Revival About a Long-Suffering Woman
What this put-upon heroine really needs is a someone named Gloria Allred
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‘Downtown Race Riot’ Theater Review: Chloe Sevigny Mixes Heroin and Mother Love
Sevigny’s portrayal of an often outrageous mother slaps an otherwise flaccid drama into shape
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‘The Parisian Woman’ Broadway Review: Uma Thurman Stirs Up Political Trouble in D.C.
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon updates his 2013 play to the era of Trump. And once again, Trump overshadows everything else
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‘Meteor Shower’ Broadway Review: Amy Schumer Sizzles, Steve Martin Fizzles
Schumer and Martin are not a match made in the heavens
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‘Harry Clarke’ Theater Review: Billy Crudup Visits a Patricia Highsmith Landscape
With his very erotic new thriller, David Cale adds sex where the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” put murder
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‘The Wolves’ Theater Review: What Happens When Young Women Reveal Their Inner Animal
Teenage empathy and competition spill out all over the AstroTurf in Sarah DeLappe’s amazing debut play
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‘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
