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  Theatre in Review: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre)
God broke the mold when He created Tina Turner -- and, in many ways, Tina breaks the mold of Broadway musical star bios. The redundantly titled Tina: The Tina Turner Musical adheres firmly to the template offered by < ...
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Theatre in Review: BrandoCapote (The Tank)
It was the journalistic whack job of the decade: Truman Capote, on assignment for The New Yorker, bearded Marlon Brando, that lion of Hollywood, in the den of his hotel in Osaka, Japan, where he was filming the 1957 drama Sayonara ...
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Theatre in Review: Richard III (Druid/Gerald W. Lynch Theater)
In a strange accident of casting, in his 2008 New York debut, Aaron Monaghan starred as the title character of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan. Eleven years later, he is back as crookback Richard, the physically ...
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Theatre in Review: Fur (Boundless Theatre Company/Next Door at NYTW)
Fur has the distinction of having the most unpalatable premise of the season so far. Once again, we are in the apocalyptic future -- the favorite destination of contemporary playwrights -- although you have to glean this information ...
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Theatre in Review: Broadbend, Arkansas (Transport Group)/The Black History Museum (HERE)
On successive nights last week, I saw two very different shows about the black experience in America. Broadbend, Arkansas, presented at The Duke at 42nd Street, takes a minimalist approach, being a pair of linked solo musicals. The ...
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Theatre in Review: Fear (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Fear would be an ugly, disturbing thriller if only it were remotely convincing. The playwright, Matt Williams, sets out to graft a classic stage-shocker format onto today's rancid political divisions, and the sutures ...
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Theatre in Review: One Discordant Violin (59E59)
Coming on the heels of The Sound Inside now on Broadway, One Discordant Violin suggests that we are in for a new wave of plays about the problems of writers. Speaking as one myself, I don't find the topic too interesting. ...
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Theatre in Review: Dr. Ride's American Beach House (Ars Nova/Greenwich House)
Dr. Ride's American Beach House unfolds across a hot summer night, which may account in part for the languid atmosphere that overtakes the stage. A conversation piece for four women who take to a St. Louis rooftop to while ...
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Theatre in Review: A Woman of the World (59E59)
If Emily Dickinson was the belle of Amherst, Mabel Loomis Todd was its chief vixen. The wife of a Smith College astronomy professor, she lived next door to Dickinson, then dined out on that fact for the next fifty years. She also was the ...
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Theatre in Review: for all the women who thought they were Mad (Soho Rep)
Zawe Ashton's play, with its eccentrically capitalized title, is certainly not the worst ever produced at Soho Rep, but it may be the most baffling. As far as I can tell, it suggests that black female business executives who fall ...
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Theatre in Review: Bella Bella (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
The new entertainment at Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway venue is advertised as Harvey Fierstein appearing as Bella Abzug. In fact, it is Harvey Fierstein appearing as Harvey Fierstein. If you are fine with that, you will most ...
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Theatre in Review: Panama Hattie (York Theatre Company)
The York concludes its Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter retrospective with this Ethel Merman vehicle from 1940. A smash at the time, it is tailored to the talents of Porter's favorite star -- so much so that its afterlife was fairly ...
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Theatre in Review: The Michaels (The Public Theater)
Once again, we are in a kitchen in Rhinebeck, New York, eavesdropping; it's a wonderful place to be. The Michaels is the latest entry in what the Public is now calling playwright Richard Nelson's Rhinebeck Panorama, a series ...
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Theatre in Review: Seared (MCC Theater)
In Seared, playwright Theresa Rebeck stirs up a terrific tempest in the kitchen of a tiny Brooklyn restaurant, but it is the director, Moritz von Stuelpnagel, who, with military precision, whips the action into comic ...
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Theatre in Review: Macbeth (Classic Stage Company)
John Doyle's new production of Macbeth is sleek, stripped down, and ready for action; having gotten one of William Shakespeare's darkest tragedies into fighting trim, however, he seems to have no idea what to ...
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Theatre in Review: The Sound Inside (Studio 54)
At first glance, The Sound Inside appears to be an overtly literary piece, an evening of writers talking about writing; you haven't heard so much book chat onstage since the last revival of Donald Margulies' Collected Stories ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wrong Man (MCC Theater)
The Wrong Man contains a promise and a confirmation. The former comes from Ross Golan, author of the musical's book and score. A pop music industry insider who has written for the likes of Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande, he ...
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Theatre in Review: Is This a Room (Vineyard Theatre)
The most suspenseful play currently on the New York stage is a piece of found theatre, drawn from the transcript of the FBI interrogation of the unhappy young woman known as Reality Winner. You may recall the name -- which sounds equally ...
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Theatre in Review: Molly Sweeney (Keen Company/Theatre Row)
As if to prove the adage about the Irish and their gift of gab, in 1994 Brian Friel wrote Molly Sweeney, a play that talks itself into a standstill. Borrowing the format of Faith Healer (one of his best works) ...
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Theatre in Review: The Rose Tattoo (American Airlines Theatre)
It's nice to see some interest once again in the second-tier works of Tennessee Williams. (Note to producers: We do not need revivals of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ...
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