Culture
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‘Dames at Sea’ Broadway Review: A Spoof of Classic Hollywood Musicals That’s More Numbing Than Fun
Director-choreographer Randy Skinner struggles to inject life into his revival of a nearly 50-year-old musical oddity
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‘First Daughter Suite’ Theater Review: Democrats Will Love It, Nancy Reagan Might Want to Sue
The Public Theater follows its ”Hamilton“ success with another look at American politics. But here it’s the women who count, from Pat Nixon to Laura Bush
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‘Ripcord’ Theater Review: Felix and Oscar Reborn as Older Women
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and director David Hyde-Pierce deliver a new odd couple, played by Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor
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‘The Gin Game’ Broadway Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Play to Win
Two veteran stars make old age look easy, even in the relic that is D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer-winning play
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‘Eclipsed’ Theater Review: Lupita Nyong’o Shines in Drama by ‘The Walking Dead’ Star Danai Gurira
Oscar winner impresses not only with her monologues of despair but with those moments of extended silence and joy in actor-playwright Gurira’s new work
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‘Clever Little Lies’ Theater Review: Is Marlo Thomas Really Telling the Awful Truth?
After the raunchiness of ”Hand to God“ and ”Barbecue,“ a new comedy about marital infidelity qualifies as simply good, clean fun
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‘Barbecue’ Theater Review: The Intervention Will Be Televised
In his wickedly funny new Off Broadway comedy, playwright Robert O’Hara believes that movie stars and memoirists are a match made in the ninth circle of publicity
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‘Fool for Love’ Broadway Review: Sam Shepard Separates the Men From the Guys
But whether it’s Sam Rockwell or Tom Pelphrey, no man stands a chance with Nina Arianda on stage — she’s the first actor to feature both arms and legs akimbo
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‘Old Times’ Broadway Review: Clive Owen, Kelly Reilly and Eve Best Reinvent Pinter
The actors share a feverish imagination that doesn’t have much to do with the text, but nonetheless illuminates it in quirky ways
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‘Antigone’ Theater Review: Juliette Binoche Meets Her Match in a Fascist Ruler and His Son
Actress, who exudes a moody spirituality on film, effortlessly takes moral high ground in a new revival in Brooklyn
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‘Spring Awakening’ Theater Review: Kids Just Want to Have Fun, the Adults Won’t Let Them
This Broadway revival will make you wonder why all actors in all musicals don’t use American Sign Language to convey what they’re singing
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‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ Theater Review: Or, Queer Eye for the Straight Elvis Impersonator
Playwright Matthew Lopez channels Tennessee Williams in a drama about drag queens including one who could be straight out of ”Sweet Bird of Youth“
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‘Whorl Inside a Loop’ Theater Review: Why White Crime Is Different From Black Crime
The broad minstrel performances in the musical ”Scottsboro Boys“ were subtle compared to what takes place on stage in this new Off Broadway play
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Hollywood Stars Express Joy at Ireland’s Historic Vote to Approve Gay Marriage (Updating)
”So proud to be Irish,“ writes ”Outlander“ actress Caitriona Balfe, while Stephen Fry imagines, ”Oscar [Wilde] smiles in his grave“
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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
