In lots of ways, The Cher Show is remarkably similar to Summer: The Donna Summer Musical . Both are big, shiny, spectacular jukebox musicals...

Daniel Fish's absolutely stunning Oklahoma, currently at St. Ann's Warehouse where I wish it could somehow live forever, never loses...

Humorless buzzkill that I am, I've never been a big fan of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day , even though just about everybody else on the p...

On her website, Alison S.M. Kobayashi describes herself as an identity contortionist. This is, as it turns out, a pretty accurate descript...

Dear Evan Hansen is an intimate, well-crafted, well-performed musical, the kind that tidily trashes the generalized dismissal of musical t...

In years as rough and depressing as 2016 has been, I am extra-super-duper thankful for the theater. I have no desire, after a year as hars...

From April 2015 to March 2016, I served as a judge on the Lortel Awards, which recognize excellence in the Off Broadway theater. The term wa...

Disaster! totally isn't one. Sure, it could maybe be shorter by about fifteen minutes, and maybe a little sharper in spots, but I saw ...

In The Humans , Stephen Karam's funny, sad, squirmily accurate play about family dynamics in troubling times, the supernatural is repea...

Kyle Froman Preludes , which has been extended through early August at the absolutely lovely Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is a ...

Photo: Carol Rosegg Hamlet 's a real pain in the ass, if you ask me. I don't mean the titular protagonist, though he's a pil...

Much like the titular subject of his densely chewy, enormously satisfying new musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda is clearly so driven by, fascina...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon  is one of those plays that is so excellent, challenging, insightful and funny that it leaves me w...

Awards shows can tell us a lot about ourselves, which is why I insist on watching them, even when I haven't consumed much of the enter...

Beautiful is one of those shows I meant to see when it first opened, and then right before Tony time, and then right after Tony time, and...

As Carol Oja points out in her new, excellent book Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War , the 1944 musical On th...

Waiting for Godot is one of those masterpieces of modern drama that everyone has read or seen or, at the very least, picked up the basi...

Parade (book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown) is a musical about the 1913 Leo Frank case, which culminates in his...

When one monstrously talented person impersonates another monstrously talented person, the desire to resort to cliches doubles in intensit...

The Tony Awards are always my favorite awards ceremony, but this year they really pissed me off. And while I am the first to argue that ...