‘Everybody’ Theater Review: What’s Really Old Is Almost New Again
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play is 90 minutes of theatrical whimsy based on a 15th-century classic
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‘Evening at the Talk House’ Theater Review: Wallace Shawn Gets Serious, Matthew Broderick Stays Cool
Broderick lets go with character critiques that savage like an assassin’s bullets, but a twist or major reveal is never delivered
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‘Man From Nebraska’ Theater Review: Tracy Letts Before His Trip to ‘August: Osage County’
A minor play from a major playwright finally makes its New York stage debut
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‘Sunset Boulevard’ Broadway Review: Glenn Close Leads an Awkward Comeback
Close gives a bravura performance — funny, over-the-top, ridiculous — but her silent film star is never vulnerable except when she attempts to sing
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‘The Liar’ Theater Review: David Ives Channels Trump Through Corneille
Death is easy, comedy is hard, and French farce is nearly impossible to perform
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‘Jitney’ Broadway Review: Pre-‘Fences’ August Wilson Runs on All Cylinders
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson doesn’t completely conceal the play’s flaws but he does expose its brilliance
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‘The Present’ Review: Cate Blanchett Makes Her Broadway Debut in Great Company
Thanks to Blanchett and the brilliant Richard Roxburgh, you can’t take your eyes off these infantile Chekhovian characters
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10 Worst Theater Productions of 2016, From ‘Paramour’ to ‘Disaster!’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2016: Critic Robert Hofler cringes again at NYC onstage atrocities from Steve Martin, Nia Vardalos and more
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10 Best Theater Productions of 2016, From ‘The Crucible’ to ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2016: Critic Robert Hofler ranks the top NYC stage shows of the year
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‘Othello’ Theater Review: David Oyelowo, Daniel Craig Go to War
The New York Theatre Workshop has been transformed into a plywood box, ready to ignite with one lit match
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‘In Transit’ Broadway Review: Where Underground Does Not Mean Cutting Edge
Set in a very sanitized subway system, Broadway’s first a capella musical presents not only a crime-free but a drama-free zone
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‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Theater Review: Nia Vardalos Is No Miss Lonelyhearts
The forces behind “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “Hamilton” make for a strange marriage, which should end in divorce
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‘Rancho Viejo’ Theater Review: Lost in the Desert, as Well as a Three-Hour Comedy
A geriatric “Friends” with Mare Winningham and Mark Blum turns into something far less interesting in Dan LeFranc’s new play
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‘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
