Even after a show runs for 2 months off-Broadway, you might expect it to take a little time to find its legs in the new space of a Broadway ...

I missed the Nina Arianda train when she was in the off-Broadway production. I missed the Nina Arianda train when she was in the Broadway pr...

I saw the Lincoln Center reunion performance of Merrily We Roll Along in 2002. It was a joy to be in the room, to hear the score sung live...

Wit is a difficult play. The lead character isn’t particularly likeable on the page, but the audience can’t merely feel sorry for her. The m...

I didn’t go looking for shows about people of color, didn’t have an agenda in grouping these three together. I simply happened to se...

Once in a while, you get to have an experience in the theatre that is thoroughly satisfying. Every now and then, the experience is completel...

Godspell contains one of my favorite scores. Growing up enamored as much by Amy Grant and Sandi Patty as Betty Buckley and Jennifer Holliday...

No surprise to find a show in its third full production in fine form during a preview. Three out of four of the lead performances are specta...

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are deserved legends. Spending an evening with them singing two dozen or so songs, you know, during some inc...

The power of this collection of same-sex marriage shorts isn't the words. You won't hear anything you haven't heard before if yo...

I am not sure there is anything left to be said about Follies. I saw it early at the Kennedy Center and was more grateful for its existence ...

I discovered Lee Lessack at a performance in the late 90’s, upstairs at Eighty Eights, the best-of-its-generation New Yo...

Several years ago, a friend insisted I had to see Gashole. I actually misread his e-mail invitation as Gash Ole. Turns out, it was not a M...

Tom Dudzick may be the most successful playwright whose work you've never seen. His first play, Greetings , opened off-Broadway in 199...

There’s something in the water in Montreal. They pump out body-defying acrobatics wrapped in tongue-in-cheek excess like a virus. Despite...