‘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
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Tony Predictions: It’s All About ‘Hamilton’ and Scott Rudin in Nominations Race
With Rudin’s “Shuffle Along” declared an original musical and likely to be nominated, one B.O.-challenged tuner just lost its best chance for Tony exposure
