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  Theatre in Review: Water for Elephants (Imperial Theatre)
Early on in Water for Elephants, Gregg Edelman, playing a grizzled veteran of the big top, wanders into a circus tent and muses. "Man, this place... The sawdust, the smells... it's old but it's new." That's a good ...
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Theatre in Review: Like They Do in the Movies (Perelman Arts Center)
Like any actor with a distinguished career spanning half a century, Laurence Fishburne has plenty of stories to tell. Now he has assembled a bunch of them into a grab bag of an evening that highlights his spellbinding way with a ...
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Theatre in Review: Corruption (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
There's a bare-knuckled political brawl unfolding eight times a week at Lincoln Center and the season is much livelier for it. Corruption revisits the Rebekah Brooks phone-hacking scandal, which brought down the storied ...
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Theatre in Review: Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)
Unless you ever attended a performance of Naked Boys Singing, Teeth will most likely feature the greatest number of penises you've ever seen onstage. Of course, in Naked Boys Singing, the organs in question ...
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Theatre in Review: An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square Theatre)
It's like a trip back to the 1980s: This revival of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, with Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, recalls the days when Circle in the Square hosted the likes of George ...
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Theatre in Review: Ibsen's Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy (Primary Stages at 59E59)
Nobody makes an entrance like Charles Busch. Playing Suzannah Ibsen, the not-so-merry widow of playwright Henrik, the actor makes his first appearance, gliding effortlessly to center stage, finding his light and pretending to look ...
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Theatre in Review: Doubt (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
"What do you do when you're not sure?" It's not a question that seems to trouble anyone in America these days, but that's why there's no time like the present for Doubt, John Patrick Shanley's investigation into faith ...
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Theatre in Review: Dead Outlaw (Audible Theatre at Minetta Lane Theatre)
One thing you can say about the people behind Dead Outlaw. They're not hiding anything. As advertised, the new musical is about a deceased lawbreaker's most inconvenient corpse, for which a great many people find some ...
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Theatre in Review: The Notebook (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
Broadway is looking rather like The Book of the Month Club these days, what with the spring season featuring musical adaptations of The Great Gatsby, S. E. Hinton's young adult classic The Outsiders, and Water for ...
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Theatre in Review: Illinoise (Park Avenue Armory)
Park Avenue Armory specializes in events best described as unclassifiable, and you won't find a better example than Illinoise, a narrative dance-theatre piece that nods in the direction of the jukebox musical. If anything, ...
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Theatre in Review: Brooklyn Laundry (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley preaches the necessity of casting aside one's starry-eyed illusions and embracing the true satisfaction of love in the real world; to argue this proposition, he gins up the ...
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Theatre in Review: Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist (The Tank)
Three Rounds in the Life of a Trotskyist would be a more apt title: Andy Boyd's verbally two-fisted drama cannily traces the career arc of a prominent neoconservative like Irving Kristol, explaining how a fiery young Marxist ...
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Theatre in Review: Remember This Trick (Target Margin Theater)
I often think each theatre season has a theme of its own, offering proof that artists always have their ears to the ground, sussing out what's going on underneath the surface of daily life. Still, nothing could prepare for the ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles (Fiasco Theater at Classic Stage Company)
Pericles (aka Pericles, Prince of Tyre) is probably the ideal script for Fiasco Theater, a company known for a highly presentational, we're-putting-on-a-show quality that many audiences find irresistible. Songs, ...
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Theatre in Review: The Ally (Public Theater)
The unthinkable has happened: We have a playwright who can out-argue Joshua Harmon. The latter, the indefatigable author of Bad Jews, Admissions, and the currently running Prayer for the French Republic, is a master ...
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Theatre in Review: The Hunt (Almeida Theatre at St. Ann's Warehouse)
This extraordinary psychological thriller begins with a quiet exchange between a schoolteacher and one of his students; as one watches it, it's hard to imagine the fallout to come. The Hunt aims at the nerve center of a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Pershing Square Signature Center)
Given the popularity of the characters she plays in the series And Just Like That... and The Gilded Age, it's easy to forget Cynthia Nixon's astonishing versatility. Only a few seasons ago, she confidently shuttled ...
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Theatre in Review: Oh, Mary! (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
If you're looking for an evening of riotous running around, you can't do better than Oh, Mary!, a bawdy, brazenly queer rewrite of American history that turns the Lincoln-era White House into a hotbed of forbidden passions. ...
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Theatre in Review: A Sign of the Times (York Theatre Company at New World Stages)
Ah, nostalgia: A Sign of the Times is set in the 1960s, a time when musicals were expected to have original books and scores. What days they were: Songs crafted to suit the characters, lyrics that advanced the plot. I get ...
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Theatre in Review: Sunset Baby (Signature Theatre)
This is the season of the comeback play, in which also-rans from previous seasons return, displaying renewed strength and relevance. The current Broadway production of Appropriate is light years ahead of its 2014 premiere, for ...
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