‘Forbidden Broadway’ Theater Review: Judy Garland Impersonates Renée Zellweger & Other Gems
Musical theater’s favorite parody show returns with brickbats for Ben Platt, Billy Porter, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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‘The Sound Inside’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker Writes Up a Storm in Riveting New Drama
Adam Rapp’s new play mesmerizes in its exploration of the creative process
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‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Theater Review: Christian Borle to the Rescue in Jonathan Groff-Led Revival
The actor makes bad behavior grossly appealing. Groff and co-star Tammy Blanchard exude somewhat less comic helium
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How Theater Is Tackling Current Events, From Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton to RBG (Guest Blog)
“The thrill of a current-events play is that it can distill those events into something much more thoughtful and engrossing than mere news,” playwright Doug McGrath says
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‘The Lightning Thief’ Broadway Review: Half-God, Half Mortal Percy Jackson Makes the Leap to Stage Musical
Rick Riordan’s series of young-adult novels is now a Broadway musical, fit for the kids if not the gods
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‘The Rose Tattoo’ Broadway Review: Marisa Tomei Goes Full Fellini
The actress stirs up a storm, kicking Tennessee Williams’s little comedy right off the Gulf Coast
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‘Soft Power’ Theater Review: Hillary Clinton Takes a Chinese Lover in David Henry Hwang’s New Musical
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori turn “The King and I” upside down and nothing but political nonsense dribbles out
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Delivers a Great TV Pilot Before Getting Nasty
Men can be jerks, and Ian Banford plays one of the biggest in Lett’s new play, which is half sitcom, half dirge
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‘The Wrong Man’ Theater Review: Joshua Henry Is Falsely Accused but to the Right Music
Songwriter Ross Golan makes a major musical-theater debut. What he needs is a new book writer for his sophomore effort
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ Theater Review: It’s Donald Trump v. Pat Buchanan
Will Arbery exposes a wild Roman Catholic cult in his bizarre and very messy new play
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‘Sunday’ Theater Review: ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘King Kong’ Playwright’s New Drama Is Just Awful
Jack Thorne’s follow-up play manages to give young people, as well as Anne Tyler, a bad name
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‘Runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age’ Theater Review: Nigerian American Immigrants Can’t Shake the Past
Mfoniso Udofia’s new plays center on a woman coping with the legacy of the past — both hers and her husband’s
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‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Broadway Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
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MoviePass to Shutdown Indefinitely on Sept. 14
Parent company Helios and Matheson is exploring a sale of MoviePass and other assets
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‘American Moor’ Theater Review: An Actor Confronts Othello – and a Fraught History With White Directors
in his fiery new play, Keith Hamilton Cobb unleashes on everything when told how to play Othello
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‘Betrayal’ Broadway Review: Tom Hiddleston Gives a Master Class in Minimalism
The actor takes the play’s big moments and makes them explode by underplaying them in this revival of the Harold Pinter classic
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‘Hercules’ Theater Review: Can Disney’s Animated Hero Go the Distance to Broadway?
Alan Menken adds a few new songs to his 1997 film score for this Public Theater production
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‘Make Believe’ Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn’t for Sissies
The kids are not all right in Bess Wohl’s arresting new play
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‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Broadway Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Go Solo Together
Revivals of minor plays by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens get the star treatment
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‘Coriolanus’ Theater Review: Jonathan Cake Plays Shakespeare’s Ultimate Mama’s Boy
The actor’s overly broad take on the Bard’s antihero is out of sync with the rest of Daniel Sullivan’s production
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‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Theater Review: Annie Golden Plays a Badass Annie Golden to Perfection
The “Orange Is the New Black” actress survives drug lords and gunfire, as well as her material
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‘Mojada’ Theater Review: Euripides’ Medea Now Lives and Murders in Queens
Luis Alfaro continues his provocative exploration of the classics by turning a spurned mother into a desperate Mexican woman
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‘The Rolling Stone’ Theater Review: The Fight Goes on for Gay Ugandans
Chris Urch’s drama examines extreme homophobia in Africa, only to find that family is more important than freedom
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Idris Elba Denies Plagiarism Claims From 2 Former Writers on His Play, ‘Tree’
“We wanted to offer an opportunity to support these new writers … the outcome is an accusation of plagiarism and discrimination,” actor says
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‘We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time’ Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy
David Cale looks back a tragedy in his family and sings about it
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‘Toni Stone’ Theater Review: A Magnificent Drama About the First Woman to Play Pro Baseball
Lydia R. Diamond’s fine fact-based new play profiles an amazing athlete and trailblazer
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‘A Strange Loop’ Theater Review: Tyler Perry Won’t Be Optioning This Musical
The man behind Madea gets roasted in Michael R. Jackson’s hilarious new musical
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‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author of “Dinner With Friends” delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
The winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
