4/27/14 4/27/14

Cabaret

In a season awash with revivals, the return of Sam Mendes' and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning production to its old home, Studio 54, was met with raised eyebrows by some.

4/21/14 4/21/14

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, has opened on Broadway with Jessie Mueller starring in the title role.

1/21/14 1/21/14

Machinal

Sophie Treadwell’s play, inspired by Ruth Snyder, the first New York woman to be put to death by the electric chair for the murder of her husband, has been given a stunning revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, starring Rebecca Hall in an impressive Broadway debut.

11/28/13 11/28/13

Taking Care of Baby

The blessing and burden that is motherhood is on display at City Center, where Taking Care of Baby, the intriguingly uncomfortable play by Dennis Kelly, is making its American debut.

10/7/13 10/7/13

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams’ 1944 “memory play” about an unhappy family trapped within the confinements of their own lives has been revived, starring Cherry Jones.

8/10/13 8/10/13

First Date

In First Date, the new musical starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez, a blind date plays out in real time, set to music.

6/22/13 6/22/13

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

This production of Tom Stoppard’s absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet is being performed in repertory with the tragedy of the Danish prince.

6/20/13 6/20/13

The Comedy of Errors

The delightfully entertaining production of The Comedy of Errors offers the complicated combination of a thoroughly humorous show that also provides a glance at some darker and frustrating themes in Shakespeare’s work.

6/4/13 6/4/13

9mm America

A production of Girl Be Heard, this intimate and personal performance of documentary theater about gun violence in America is deeply moving and incredibly upsetting — in the best way possible

5/19/13 5/19/13

‘Cuff Me:’ The Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody

It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” book series.

5/16/13 5/16/13

The Trip to Bountiful

Currently in performances at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, Horton Foote’s play, directed by Michael Wilson, offers up a bounty of emotion, both joyful and bittersweet.

5/9/13 5/9/13

I'll Eat You Last

Anyone who loves and longs for juicy gossip but feels a bit shamed by the desire should hurry to the Booth Theatre, where I’ll Eat You Last, the new play about Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers and starring a delicious Bette Midler, is in performances.

5/8/13 5/8/13

Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)

This play, if you can call it that, is also directed by Foreman, who has come out of a self-declared retirement from the theater, to helm it at the Public.

5/2/13 5/2/13

The Nance

Nathan Lane stars in Douglas Carter Beane’s moving new play in performances at the Lyceum Theater.

4/29/13 4/29/13

Orphans

The threat of violence hovers in the air at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, where Lyle Kessler’s Orphans is in production. Directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Alec Baldwin and the excellent duo of Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, this play is crackling with the threat of danger, both physical and emotional.

4/27/13 4/27/13

The Big Knife

A series of missed opportunities for tension and laughter, Clifford Odet’s The Big Knife is a story of compromised ideals in old-time Hollywood, featuring a talented ensemble that falls victim to some serious misdirection.

4/18/13 4/18/13

The Assembled Parties

The new comedy-drama by Richard Greenberg that narrates the decline of a wealthy agnostic Jewish family, The Assembled Parties is the epitome of taste and class, even when addressing such ugly topics as AIDS, crime and death.

4/15/13 4/15/13

Matilda

Based on Roald Dahl’s best-selling children’s book and imported from London, where it originated with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this new Broadway musical is, much like its titular heroine, a fantastic balance of sarcastic and sweet, both entertaining and thought-provoking, and, as a result, endlessly appealing.

4/10/13 4/10/13

Kinky Boots

With a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots, which is filled to the brim with glitter and glitz, has strutted confidently into its place as the feel-good musical of the season.

4/8/13 4/8/13

Lucky Guy

“You’re born, you die. Everything between is subject to interpretation,” according to one of the journalists in Lucky Guy, the affectionately nostalgic biography of New York City reporter and columnist Mike McAlary currently in performances at the Broadhurst Theater.