NOT JUST “ANOTHER HAPPY DAY”: HAPPY DAYS
NOT JUST “ANOTHER HAPPY DAY” “No worse - no better, no worse, no change - no pain” says Samuel Beckett’ss Winnie. As HAPPY DAYS opens...
GREED STRAIGHT-UP, THANK YOU VERY MUCH: THE LITTLE FOXES
Lillian Hellman’s THE LITTLE FOXES, superbly staged in revival at Manhattan Theatre Club, is as satisfying as theatre gets. In this...
NORA'S BACK: A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
NORA'S BACK Lucas Hnath’s A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 is the freshest playwriting on Broadway this season, ingeniously conceived,...
KEEP IT MOVIN': BANDSTAND
Good, old-fashioned American grit and determination get adrenalized in the ambitious musical BANDSTAND. The star of the show is the...
THE DIVINE MISS L: HELLO, DOLLY!
Every actor who’s played Dolly Levi - from the original Dolly, Carol Channing, to even stand-up comic Phyllis Diller - has informed the...
HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE
Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s newest play , HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE, doesn’t quite transcend her habit of churning out narratively...
GOODWILL OVERFLOWING: COME FROM AWAY
Goodwill overflows in the heartwarming, home-grown Canadian musical COME FROM AWAY, based on true stories of American air passengers...
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
If you liked NOISES OFF, you’ll love the Mischief Theatre’s production THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, imported from the West End, about an...
THE WHAT & THE WHERE (Huntington Theatre Company - Boston)
Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company is staging Ayad Akhtar’s THE WHO & THE WHAT after its well-received runs at Lincoln Center three...
(A)MORAILTY PLAY: VANITY FAIR (The Pearl Theatre Co.)
If you missed playwright Kate Hamill’s and director Eric Tucker’s joyous SENSE & SENSIBILITY at Bedlam, you can atone – and deliriously –...