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‘The Bridges of Madison County’ Theater Review: This Broadway Version Is the Charm
The collaboration here is a nearly perfect melding of story, arias, dialogue, recitative and pop tunes. Robert Jason Brown has written arias for Kelli O’Hara, country pop for Steven Pasquale, which is a sly reversal of Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza’s historic turns in “South Pacific”
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‘The Tribute Artist’ Theater Review: Aging Drag Queen Gets Role of Lifetime in Charles Busch’s Daring Comedy
How is an aging drag queen who specializes in Bette and Marilyn going to keep working in Vegas when all the Millennials and Gen-Xers want are impersonations of Rihanna and Beyonce? Busch offers one possibility
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‘Bronx Bombers’ Theater Review: Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson Make Belated Broadway Debut
It’s crisis time in the land of the Yankees. And a sports crisis for playwright-director Eric Simonson is equal to a nuclear meltdown or the onset of male pattern baldness
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How ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Author Anthony Burgess Soured on Stanley Kubrick (Book Excerpt)
In an excerpt from Robert Hofler’s new book “Sexplosion,” we learn how Burgess went from standing in for Kubrick at awards presentations to pillorying him onstage
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‘Outside Mullingar’ Theater Review: John Patrick Shanley Returns to ‘Moonstruck’ Turf Via Ireland
Compared to Debra Messing and Brian F. O’Byrne’s long courtship here, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s wait for Godot a few blocks away at the Cort seems comparatively brief in theater time
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‘Machinal’ Theater Review: Rebecca Hall Wins by Losing It in Her Broadway Debut
This dazzling Roundabout Theater production often recalls an urban contradiction that is a hallmark of Edward Hopper’s paintings: loneliness coupled with a total lack of privacy.
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‘Beautiful’ Theater Review: The New Carole King Musical Has the Guts to Play It Nice
Here is arguably the nicest, most normal, least eccentric personality ever to be at the center of a Broadway musical. “Beautiful” is the show for theatergoers who don’t like drama queens. Is there such an animal?
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‘Waiting for Godot’ & ‘No Man’s Land’ Theater Review: Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Lighten Up on the Angst
For sheer laughs per minute, these two stars deliver the goods as if they were instead performing a farce by Alan Ayckbourn or Christopher Durang
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‘Macbeth’ Theater Review: Ethan Hawke Stars in a Movie-Friendly Staging
Director Jack O’Brien lets us know that this is a very human-scale drama, but later in the play you may wonder who’s that horrible couple everybody’s gossiping about
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‘The Commons of Pensacola’ Theater Review: Blythe Danner Rocks, Sarah Jessica Parker Recyles
Amanda Peet’s “The Commons of Pensacola” belongs to that class of TV pilots that never get picked up and instead take up residence in Hollywood’s tiny store-front theaters
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‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ Theater Review: Broadway’s Tops ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’
Darko Tresnjak directs a compact, wickedly witty new musical. Especially delightful is the cheesy execution of the show’s hysterically funny murders
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‘Domesticated’ Theater Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays the Lowest of the Low
After taking on the racial divide in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Clybourne Park,” Bruce Norris returns to examine the war of the sexes in an equally funny and scathing comedy
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‘Betrayal’ Theater Review: James Bond’s a Loutish Cuckold
It’s a marvel of acting to watch Daniel Craig slowly bring the subtext of raging anger to the fore in scene after scene of this Harold Pinter revival
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‘The Snow Geese’ Theater Review: Mary-Louise Parker Gets Lost in the Weeds
The characters unburden themselves of so much complicated history in the first moments that you might consider retitling it “Autumn: Onondaga County”
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‘The Landing’ Theater Review: The New John Kander Musical’s for People Who Don’t Like Musicals
David Hyde Pierce stars in John Kander’s first musical without longtime collaborator Fred Ebb, and there’s not a showgirl or boy in sight.
