On the surface,  Betrayal is about entitled Londoners who meet for fancy lunches, during which they chat about art and literature and the be...

It's a sad song It's a sad tale, it's a tragedy It's a sad song But we sing it anyway 'Cause here's the t...

Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy , just extended at the Friedman,   is poignant, moving, and lovely. A coming-of-age drama set in an ex...

While I appreciate it as a landmark in both film making and scoring, I've otherwise never much understood the appeal of  King Kong. Sure...

A friend of mine often uses the expression "pretty little play" to describe a show that's easy to digest, not especially profo...

After all that's been written about Hamilton , one might think that there's nothing left to say. Turns out there's at least 400 ...

To stage Jesus Christ Superstar, I've long been convinced, is to set yourself up to fail. I'm not just being crabby, here; I love t...

Don't tell anyone, but until earlier this month, I'd never seen the stage or film version, or even listened to the score, of  Hello,...

The stage version of George Orwell's  1984 , grippingly adapted by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, might not be the masterpiece the bo...

Anastasia Time was when a middle-of-the-road, slightly overstuffed show like Anastasia would have sent me into paroxysms of self-righteous ...

Hi, Show Showdown visitors! My take on the highly unconventional and mildly controversial Sam Gold production of The Glass Menagerie  is c...

Kneehigh's stage adaptation of the 2006 children's novel  The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo is so bubbly, energ...

The great comet in question was actually in 1811. Just sayin'. Not like it matters: Broadway musicals are hardly the medium through whic...

In Richard Nelson's Hungry,   which ran at the Public last spring, the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, had just finished scatteri...

The Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, has just finished scattering the ashes of Thomas, one of its men, on the shores of the Hudson. No...

A few seats were empty in the Mitzi Newhouse Theater the evening I saw Marco Ramirez's  The Royale , and that struck me as kind of a bum...

It's humbling, really, just how much theater happens in this town--and just how much talent there is making it. Because I've been on...

When it comes to biographical jukebox musicals that are produced by the same people being depicted, you could do worse than On Your Feet! Th...

Allegiance, the Broadway musical about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, is not the most flawlessly rendered musical...

Last night, the cast of Ripcord, David Lindsay-Abaire's play at MTC, seemed a little off. Maybe it had been a rough weekend, or someone...