Theater
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‘Fish in the Dark’ Theater Review: Larry David Goes for Vintage Laughs in Broadway Debut
Devotees of the “Seinfeld” co-creator will not be disappointed, even though his madcap story harks back to Broadway’s golden age
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‘The Mystery of Love & Sex’ Theater Review: Diane Lane, Tony Shalhoub Hook Up With ‘Masters of Sex’ Writer
Bathsheba Doran gives us not one but two coming-out-of-the-closet storylines
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‘Brooklynite’ Theater Review: Superhero Tale Feels Like an After-School Special
The “X-Men” story will bore the “High School Musical” set, but Peter Lerman’s score recalls the work of “Sesame Street” legend Joe Raposo
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‘Lives of the Saints’ Theater Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ Author Delivers Cheap Laughs and Low-Key Whimsy
“SNL” performs these kinds of skits in half the time and actually makes them topical, which is more than can be said for this David Ives comedy
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‘Verite’ Theater Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Writer’s Play Is Like a Network TV Pilot
Writer/producer Nick Jones’ send-up of the book publishing business isn’t a play — it’s not even HBO, Netflix or FX
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‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Theater Review: Dianne Wiest and Tonya Pinkins Face Off in Tense Office Comedy
Cynthia Nixon referees in her auspicious directorial debut, making sure not to turn anyone into an obvious villain
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‘A Month in the Country’ Theater Review: Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage Offer Up 2 Hours in the Hamptons
Ivan Turgenev’s characters aren’t in love with who they’re supposed to be, and yet, they’re terribly civilized about it
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‘Let the Right One In’ Theater Review: Eli’s Back and She’s Learned a New Trick From Carrie
This little vampire makes you believe she can bite, wrestle and choke a man twice her size to death. It’s like a trip back to the Grand Guignol and just as bloody
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‘I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard’ Theater Review: Halley Feiffer Writes Her Daddy Dearest Play
The drama can be described as “Whiplash” meets “The Heiress,” as the writer goes straight for the jugular through the heart
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‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ Theater Review: Jason Robert Brown Gambles on Andrew Bergman’s Movie
In this age of gross-out humor, the fiancée-as-payment plot is relatively mild. But smarm stills needs charm to work on stage
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‘The Invisible Hand’ Theater Review: It’s ‘Margin Call’ Set Inside a Pakistani Bunker
Ayad Akhtar creates suspense, not from an impending beheading but from what a prisoner teaches his captor about the stock market
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Bradley Cooper in ‘The Elephant Man’ Offers Gorgeous Along With The Beast
With Cooper in the lead, the play takes on new meaning, teaching us what it’s like to be a movie star in ways E! and TMZ never could
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‘The Illusionists’ Theater Review: It’s a Magic Show That’s Houdini Times Seven
Anyone who’s ever seen newsreels of Houdini has wanted to go back in time to experience first-hand the cheesy excitement of seeing a stunt performer risk his life. Here’s your chance
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‘A Particle of Dread’ Theater Review: Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea Eyeball Oedipus
Rea may be the first Oedipus to play the role in blood-spattered overalls, and he deftly handles Shepard’s freewheeling segues from tragedy to slapstick and back
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‘A Delicate Balance’ Theater Review: Glenn Close Revisits More Than One Diva
Close’s strong, unyielding matriarch is sister to Norma Desmond from “Sunset Boulevard,” the actress’ last role on Broadway twenty years ago
