Tracy Letts’s play about an accountant in the Midwest reveals the extraordinary nature of average people.
A thrilling new production in Yiddish, directed by Joel Grey, offers a fuller understanding of Jewish religious life.
This tightly focused staging of the classic squeezes everything it can out of the musical.
Charlotte Moore has revised a head-scratching story of a psychiatrist and his patient—who seems both to have ESP and to be the reincarnation of an 18th-century English society lady—into an enjoyable, romantic work.
Bard SummerScape revives Leonard Bernstein’s 1950 musical about the boy who wouldn’t grow up with a contemporary twist.
At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a production of ‘Richard II’ that gives theatergoers a reason to see one of the playwright’s less-loved works, and a ‘Taming of the Shrew’ that plays it the way the author wrote it.
Seventy-five years after its Broadway opening, Hammerstein’s once-popular, then derided adaptation of Bizet’s opera gets a slimmed-down revival.
The Mint Theater Company keeps its fresh reputation with the first-ever revival of Miles Malleson’s 1925 drama.
William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s latest musical, based on a 1927 comedy that spoofs the theatrical Barrymore family, has all the makings of a hit.
The famed choreographer’s revue gets a sprawling revival--including a cast of 59--its first since opening in 1989.
Fifty years after its premiere, Mart Crowley’s black comedy about a group of gay friends who spend an evening sniping at one another comes to Broadway.
A little South African history will help audiences truly appreciate Athol Fugard’s apartheid-era play.
The work that marked Stephen Adly Guirgis’s rise as a playwright has been revived off-Broadway.
A musical keeps the legacy of the consummate entertainer alive.
Alan Ayckbourn’s 81st full-length play jumps through time, following a man who spends his life working in an opulent building that undergoes many uses over the decades.
Lynn Nottage’s latest, about elephant poaching and illegal ivory trafficking, avoids political-cartoon symbols of good and evil while revealing motives that, as is almost always true in real life, are mixed.
Relive the Disco Queen’s life in this slick new musical with plenty of glittering flaws.
Star casting is miscasting on Broadway as Denzel Washington takes on the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s lengthy play and Condola Rashad plays the titular holy woman in George Bernard Shaw’s work.
The two-part, five-hour extravaganza is the most expensive nonmusical production ever to open on Broadway—and it shows.
Tom Stoppard’s play has James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara, Dada’s founding father, sharing a stage.
Lerner and Loewe’s spin on Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ returns in a big-budget production directed by Bartlett Sher.
Matthew Broderick stars as a mysterious stranger in Conor McPherson’s kitchen-sink conversation piece set in Dublin.
This staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic, while remarkably sung, disappoints in other ways.
Mark Medoff’s almost four-decade-old work about the relationship between a deaf woman and her speech therapist comes off as surface deep today.
The Public Theater’s new musical by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown has a timely political edge, an ethnically diverse cast and a score by a singer-songwriter who knows how to rock.