Theater
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‘Incognito’ Theater Review: Lots of Physics, Not Much Meaning From Nick Payne
Albert Einstein’s brain meets an amnesiac pianist, and as we learn in a jumbled new play, both should just be left alone
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‘Hadestown’ Theater Review: Anais Mitchell Drops Orpheus Into a Postapocalyptic World
The bad guys steal the show from Orpheus and Eurydice, and when they do, you feel like you’ve just stepped onto Bourbon Street
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Sutton Foster to Star in Off Broadway Revival of ‘Sweet Charity’
The New Group also announces world premiere of new play by Hamish Linklater to star Zosia Mamet and Maura Tierney
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‘The Judas Kiss’ Theater Review: Oscar Wilde on Trial Again, This Time With Rupert Everett
A brilliant new revival establishes David Hare’s tragedy for what it has always been: one of the great plays of the late 20th Century
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David Hyde Pierce Joins Bette Midler in ‘Hello Dolly!’ Broadway Revival
Musical returns to Great White Way in March 2017
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‘Smash’ Alum Christian Borle to Play Willy Wonka on Broadway
Two-time Tony winner is set to star in stage version of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” starting in spring 2017
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Why ‘Hamilton’ Won’t Top ‘The Producers’ for Tony Awards Record
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical hit scored a record 16 nominations — but winning all those awards just isn’t possible
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‘Hamilton’ Leads Tony Awards With Record 16 Nominations
The ceremony honoring Broadway’s finest will be held June 12
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Theater Review: Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood
Tennessee Williams’ idea of illusion and magic has been reduced to a lot of Maybelline and Aqua Net
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Tony Predictions: It’s All About ‘Hamilton’ and Scott Rudin in Nominations Race
With Rudin’s “Shuffle Along” declared an original musical and likely to be nominated, one B.O.-challenged tuner just lost its best chance for Tony exposure
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‘Dido & Aeneas’ Theater Review: From Broadway to Opera, Kelli O’Hara Does It All
Last year’s Tony winner for “The King and I” takes a break from show tunes to go totally baroque
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‘Shuffle Along’ Broadway Review: George C. Wolfe Delivers His Masterpiece
In a year of corn-pone musicals, “Shuffle Along” exudes elegance and intelligence. It’s big only in its ambitions, theatrical thrills, and the emotions it stirs
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‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Broadway Review: Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne Tackle O’Neill and Each Other
Byrne and Lange capture the way families can be civil one moment and at each other’s throats the next. Theirs is a mesmerizing dance of death
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‘Tuck Everlasting’ Broadway Review: Why Immortality Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Nothing gives us a better glimpse of eternity than this musical’s lax narrative, generic performances, and endless ballet
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‘Fully Committed’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Brings to Life Modern Family of Entitled Creeps
It’s only food. But in this revival, it’s also power and prestige and people treating people horribly — to great comic effect
