‘The Babylon Line’ Theater Review: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Reaser Bring Lust to Adult Ed
In his absorbing new comedy, Richard Greenberg teaches us much about not only creative writing but the strange place that is Levittown, Long Island
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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Theater Review: A New Musical for the Hashtag Generation
Off Broadway musical could be new “Rent” for young people who prefer typing on computers to speech, and creates virtual communities on the Internet
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‘A Bronx Tale’ Broadway Review: Chazz Palminteri Returns to His Roots, Again
Palminteri’s mean-streets story, co-directed by Robert De Niro, is set to music that sounds more Disney than the Bronx
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‘Ride the Cyclone’ Theater Review: How to Give Rod Serling a Bad Name
A new Off Broadway musical embraces the macabre but not much else
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‘Sweet Charity’ Theater Review: Sutton Foster Galumphs Her Way to Musical-Comedy Greatness
This working girl resembles a clomping giraffe in a bad Dynel wig — both hilarious and pathetic
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‘Dead Poets Society’ Theater Review: Jason Sudeikis Goes Back to School, But Why Should We?
Tom Schulman adapts his 1989 screenplay about a 1950s boys’ prep school to the stage. Oh, for the future days of STDs and crystal meth among our youth
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‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ Broadway Review: Josh Groban Makes Epic Debut
Director Rachel Chavkin works irreverent Bob Fosse-like magic in musical version of “War and Peace”
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‘The Death of the Last Black Man’ Theater Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Brilliant New Riff on Race
The playwright makes the sounds of her words as important as the meaning, giving the play the trance-like quality of a Philip Glass opera
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‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Broadway Review: Liev Schreiber, Janet McTeer Bring Old Blighty to France
An acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of Christopher Hampton’s play loses some of its goods in a rough Atlantic crossing
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‘Falsettos’ Broadway Review: Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells Are Dreamboat Casting
The two leads score in every way possible. But William Finn’s musical takes “gay” back to the Irving Berlin definition of the word
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‘A Life’ Theater Review: David Hyde Pierce Puts His Faith in the Stars
Adam Bock’s provocative new play creates a peculiar, singular experience in the theater. In this lifetime, it should not be missed
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‘Plenty’ Theater Review: Rachel Weisz Chooses Between Anger and Madness
Time and a leading actor’s interpretation have not been kind to David Hare’s drama about life in post-World War II Britain
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‘The Front Page’ Broadway Review: John Slattery, Nathan Lane Join a Basketful of Deplorables
Lane dazzles in his turn as a newspaper devil, while Slattery remains stuck on Madison Avenue in this uneven revival of an American classic
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‘Love, Love, Love’ Theater Review: Richard Armitage, Amy Ryan Bond With the Beatles
Mike Bartlett follows “King Charles III” with another comedy, this one spanning nearly half a century of indulgent lives
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‘The Cherry Orchard’ Broadway Review: Diane Lane Stars in an Overripe Revival
Oklahoma, as in the state and the Broadway musical, is closer to the world of this production than anything imagined by Anton Chekhov
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‘Heisenberg’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker Stuck in Pretentious Physics-Inspired Play
A puny new drama from the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
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‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Review: A Comedy Central Skit Makes the Jump to the Big Stage
Nick Kroll smells bad, John Mulaney doesn’t … And that’s a problem for a comedy about two lumpy old men on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
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‘Holiday Inn’ Broadway Review: Like Visiting Berlin Before the Fall of the Wall
An Irving Berlin movie classic peters out long before Valentine’s Day in this new stage incarnation at Studio 54
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‘The Encounter’ Broadway Review: How to Enjoy Getting Lost in the Theater
In a tech-driven show that includes headsets for audience members, Simon McBurney re-creates true expedition in Amazon rain forests
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‘All the Ways to Say I Love You’ Theater Review: Sex, Lies and Neil LaBute’s Big Paddle
Judith Light finds herself stuck in a high school teacher’s office, and she’s not the only one trapped there
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‘The Layover’ Theater Review: Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Strangers on a Train’ Reimagined
Leslye Headland’s new play careens between terrific meet-cute humor and the darkest romantic obsessions
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‘Privacy’ Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Loses His Way Online but Finds Edward Snowden
James Graham’s comedy features so much audience participation that it resembles the entertainment on a cruise ship captained by Franz Kafka
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‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Theater Review: All-Woman Revival in Central Park Sends Up Donald Trump
Under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd, the Public Theater’s production ends up with a lot of small men on stage
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Tony Award Predictions: Can Anything Stop ‘Hamilton’ Juggernaut?
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical and Stephen Karam’s play “The Humans” look to be the big winners, but probably won’t set any records
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‘Paramour’ Broadway Review: There’s Cirque du Soleil Gold Amid Showbiz Dross
The three very uncharismatic leads and their generic tunes wear out their welcome fast. Fortunately, the acrobats and aerialists never do
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‘The Total Bent’ Theater Review: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Deliver a ‘Dreamgirls’ for Men
Most musical-history shows offer up ersatz versions of classics. Stew and Rodewald write classics. Period
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‘Incognito’ Theater Review: Lots of Physics, Not Much Meaning From Nick Payne
Albert Einstein’s brain meets an amnesiac pianist, and as we learn in a jumbled new play, both should just be left alone
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‘Hadestown’ Theater Review: Anais Mitchell Drops Orpheus Into a Postapocalyptic World
The bad guys steal the show from Orpheus and Eurydice, and when they do, you feel like you’ve just stepped onto Bourbon Street
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‘The Judas Kiss’ Theater Review: Oscar Wilde on Trial Again, This Time With Rupert Everett
A brilliant new revival establishes David Hare’s tragedy for what it has always been: one of the great plays of the late 20th Century
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Theater Review: Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood
Tennessee Williams’ idea of illusion and magic has been reduced to a lot of Maybelline and Aqua Net
