‘Blackbird’ Broadway Review: Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams at Odds in Many Different Ways
Daniels reprises a great performance. Williams is mannered to the point of distraction
Daniels reprises a great performance. Williams is mannered to the point of distraction
Occasionally a performer breaks through the ice of mediocrity to showcase real comic chops in this jukebox musical homage to the 1970s
Marco Ramirez’s play depicts a thinly fictionalized version of the pioneering black boxer from the early 20th century, taking us inside the athletes’ heads
The Oscar-winning actor delivers a most endearing Erie, right down to the nervous giggle he adds to punctuate the character’s otherwise bottomless despair
Noah Haidle’s play takes us inside the womb to give us the inside track on what it’s like to be born. It’s as audacious as...
Rylance offers an older version of Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in this play about ice fishing, thermal underwear and life up...
Nat Wolff (“The Fault in Our Stars”) and Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) also star in revival of a play with no good words for...
Lydia R. Diamond’s new play is about racism in the way that Jules Feiffer’s “Carnal Knowledge” screenplay is about sexism. Nothing else is open for...
Former “Will & Grace” star takes over for Jim Parsons, who played the Divine One in the virtually one-man show last summer on Broadway
The young student hero of Shanley’s play talks like a 65-year-old playwright who took an adult education course in Western civilization
Richard Greenberg’s fictitious revelations can’t compare to the play’s central bombshell, which can be found on Wikipedia
Return visitors to Michael Frayn’s three-act comedy may find watching its play within a play too much of a bad thing
There isn’t enough of Armstrong’s music and there’s way too much of Rolin Jones’ book, which achieves the uneasy feat of being both amateur and...
Under John Doyle’s inspired direction, sex emerges as a major ingredient in this very adult musical, whether it’s sex to make love, to abuse someone,...
In a rock musical based on the 2003 American movie, you exit humming Mozart — yes, Mozart
Pacino never hides his technique, which is what makes him so entertaining to watch. Here, he brings out his entire arsenal of shtick
Director Diane Paulus eschews the pyrotechnics of her recent Broadway outings to embrace a minimalist approach that suits this autobiographical musical to perfection
“Orange Is the New Black” writer-producer Nick Jones has fashioned a hilarious, always hallucinatory new Off Broadway comedy about a time-traveling clothing designer
Mark Gerrard borrows from the Terrence McNally school of insult humor, with Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald being trashed in jokes that don’t land
The playwright is at his best with the back and forth on whether the Nazis have no table manners or are the best audiences for...
Willis gives a credible performance, but as a stage actor he doesn’t show much invention or variety
Mark Strong, in a powerful performance, turns Eddie Carbone’s tragedy into an utter inability and unwillingness to understand his own motives
Peter Parnell has a real ear for mixing up the new gay (family values) with the old gay (great, uninhibited sex), and having his lead...
The men in John Pollono’s new play are so verbally battered by women they could qualify for FEMA
Rather than focusing on the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans, this new musical finds its voice in the characters’ varied responses to discrimination
As self-promoting hagiographies go, this new jukebox musical makes “Trump: The Art of the Deal” look modest
Veronica J. Kuehn plays presidential aide in Off Broadway musical
Mike Bartlett’s new play about the royal family has a smarmy appeal for theatergoers who’ve never read People magazine
Not everything goes wrong. As Therese’s lover, Matt Ryan is appropriately studly and manages to produce few laughs despite being stuck with clunky lines
Broderick talks to his dog and his dog talks back to him in revival of 1995 comedy that first starred Sarah Jessica Parker