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Singing! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon’s direction of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked. → Read More
In this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about “the way the world is right now.” → Read More
This family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick than fractured, feminist fairytale. → Read More
There’s a point here — men do terrible things and the universe will have revenge — but it’s buried in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect. → Read More
Eboni Booth’s portrait of one man’s loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater’s elemental storytelling powers. And make you cry. → Read More
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers. → Read More
Comer’s astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field. → Read More
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons—from Monty Python to Mighty Boosh— are inevitable. → Read More
This revival — with a new book by Aaron Sorkin — is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough. → Read More
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain. → Read More
From an opera about a rising boxer to dance inspired by Kandinsky’s watercolors, this season pushes boundaries in all directions. → Read More
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover — those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store the next few months. → Read More
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British playwright Simon Stephens. → Read More
Sharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom — with laugh lines for Nathan Lane — and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes and bathos. → Read More
Riffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant. → Read More
This sloppy Broadway embrace of Neil Diamond is a jukebox musical in search of a plot. → Read More
At Park Avenue Armory, writer-director Robert Icke transforms Greek tragedy ‘Oresteia’ for a more postmodern audience. → Read More
The bestselling novel ‘The Kite Runner’ has been adapted marvelously for screen and now for stage yet a weak adaptation does it no justice. → Read More
Shakespeare adaptations come with a certain pressure, with some more successful than others. ‘Richard III’ struggles to make the cut. → Read More
Revivals of Sondheim can be mixed business due to the pressure of his legacy yet some revivals. ‘Into the Woods’ does his legacy justice. → Read More