Theater
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‘Finding Neverland’ Theater Review: Matthew Morrison Turns His Broadway Return Into Pure Child’s Play
Produced by Harvey Weinstein, this musical tale about J.M. Barrie’s creation of “Peter Pan” is kept magnificently low tech by director Diane Paulus
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‘It Shoulda Been You’ Theater Review: David Hyde Pierce Takes a Wedding Party to the Bank
This story of the beautiful bride’s plus-size sister could use more Melissa McCarthy and less Jenny Craig, but the circus around her rarely fails to entertain
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‘An American in Paris’ Theater Review: How Much Angst Can a Movie Musical Handle?
There’s a lot of gay and Jewish anxiety in this new stage version, but not to worry. Everyone still finds the time to sing “Fidgety Feet” and “Who Cares?”
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‘Wolf Hall’ Theater Review: Hilary Mantel’s Historical Saga Is Well Worth Six-Hour Investment
Actor Ben Miles negotiates the way Eliot Ness handled a tommy gun, and the fun of ‘Wolf Hall’ is watching what his Thomas Cromwell will think of next
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‘Gigi’ Theater Review: Vanessa Hudgens Turns a French Girl into a Very Pretty Woman
Refashioned for the “High School Musical” generation, “Gigi” sports a heroine who’s spunkier than a barrel of Disney princesses
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‘Hand to God’ Theater Review: Humans Are Here Simply to Service Their Puppets
Playwright Robert Askins will probably take this as a compliment, but by far the most interesting characters are the puppets
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‘Skylight’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy Bring New Fire to an Old Romance
Nighy’s performance is deliriously over the top, and the night’s biggest laugh comes when Mulligan does a spot-on impersonation of her co-star
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‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Theater Review: Elisabeth Moss Brings a Slightly Mad Woman Back to Broadway
“Mad Men” actress and co-star Jason Biggs effectively anchor a revival that finds others in the cast auditioning for “Fashion Police”
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‘Posterity’ Theater Review: ‘I Am My Own Wife’ Author Wrestles With the Legacy of Another Playwright
Art rarely survives when it is delivered with a capital A. Make that several capital A’s in the case of Doug Wright’s new play about Henrik Ibsen
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‘On the Twentieth Century’ Theater Review: Kristin Chenoweth Is Back on the Fast Track
Actress retires her pipsqueak Dietrich, and the show’s four porters impersonate a train so well you can almost get high on their smoke
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‘The Audience’ Theater Review: Helen Mirren, Peter Morgan Dust Off Their Queen
Morgan’s new play about Queen Elizabeth II makes the best case ever for ridding the United Kingdom of the royal family
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‘Fish in the Dark’ Theater Review: Larry David Goes for Vintage Laughs in Broadway Debut
Devotees of the “Seinfeld” co-creator will not be disappointed, even though his madcap story harks back to Broadway’s golden age
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‘The Mystery of Love & Sex’ Theater Review: Diane Lane, Tony Shalhoub Hook Up With ‘Masters of Sex’ Writer
Bathsheba Doran gives us not one but two coming-out-of-the-closet storylines
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‘Brooklynite’ Theater Review: Superhero Tale Feels Like an After-School Special
The “X-Men” story will bore the “High School Musical” set, but Peter Lerman’s score recalls the work of “Sesame Street” legend Joe Raposo
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‘Lives of the Saints’ Theater Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ Author Delivers Cheap Laughs and Low-Key Whimsy
“SNL” performs these kinds of skits in half the time and actually makes them topical, which is more than can be said for this David Ives comedy
