It may be redundant at this point, but I want to echo my colleagues and reiterate that it's really just gob-smacking to be able to live ...

Photo: Joan Marcus My colleagues Wendy and Liz generally offered praise for Robert O'Hara's Barbecue , which runs through next S...

Annaleigh Ashford garnered praise and a Tony nomination for her scene-stealing work in Kinky Boots ; a year later, she walked away with the ...

Sam Shepard's Fool For Love is a strange, searing play. Although it takes place in real time, in the stark and unforgiving Western lands...

I am pleased to announce that I will be joining  Talkin' Broadway  as a contributing critic. I will be covering theatrical productions i...

Two young women reflect each other through a mirror. One is dark-haired and slight, with a deeply expressive face. The other is blond and fu...

I find it hard to believe that Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur  -- written in 2005, but just now receiving its New York premiere, under the ...

Not much happens in The Flick , but you probably know that already. The play's languid running time -- three-and-a-half hours, with the ...

photo: Paul Fox Mike Bartlett --whose Oliver-winning satire King Charles III will premiere on Broadway in the fall -- wrote his taut, of...

photo: T. Charles Erickson Audra McDonald cemented her living legend status in 2014, when she won her sixth competitive Tony, becoming n...

photo: Matthew Murphy No one path leads to an indelible, unforgettable performance. Sometimes an actor takes a classic, timeless role a...

Photo: Carol Rosegg There really is no such thing as a bad night at the Delacorte Theater, the venue nestled inside Central Park where T...

Photo: Joan Marcus Larry David may have left his hit play Fish in the Dark , but make no mistake: he's still up on that stage. And ...

Photo: Carol Rosegg Irish theater values the act of storytelling as much as -- if not more than -- the story itself. The danger each pla...

photo: Joan Marcus The trickiest part of crafting a memoir is getting your very personal story to speak to something universal and rec...

Photo: Joan Marcus Bruce Norris can write. His dialogue crackles, his jokes mostly land, and occasionally he creates surprisingly vivid,...

photo: Joan Marcus An almost-bare stage, two actors, razor-sharp direction, simple lighting, a few props: sometimes this is all you ne...

photo: Sara Krulwich Every theater season has a "snob hit," according to William Goldman's classic 1969 insider's guid...

When the classic verismo double bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci  last appeared at the Met, in 2...

Renee Fleming, Jerry O'Connell, Douglas Sills Photo: Sara Krulwich Full disclosure: I left Living on Love, the wretched attempt at d...