“Rock of Ages,” the celebrated hymn based on First Corinthians, will not appear in this Broadway musical. Instead expect the hits of Foreigner, Styx, Pat Benatar, and Journey. The nominal plot centers on a romance conducted in the unsalubrious environs of the Sunset Strip circa 1987. More >>

Audiences didn’t fall slowly for New York Theatre Workshop’s adaptation of the much-loved indie film Once. Despite mixed notices, crowds fell quickly, and they fell hard. The Broadway transfer should continue this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale... More >>

By the time he retired in 1974, the influential columnist Joseph Alsop had a wide reach in America, impacting policy and popular opinion with his syndicated Washington political column that ran in about 300 newspapers three times a week. A cousin of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and a good... More >>

Like last season’s The Motherfucker with the Hat, Mike Bartlett’s searching comedy drama about erotic identity ought to have writers scrambling for politic euphemisms. The play concerns John, who breaks up with his boyfriend only to fall into bed with a woman, prompting a sexual... More >>

First-wave feminism succeeded to second, second to third. But Gina Gionfriddo’s new play shows four women (and one man) are still high and dry. Together they try to negotiate love, marriage, sex, children, work, and autonomy—with worryingly little success. Peter DuBois directs the... More >>

Seven book, eight movies, thousands of product tie-ins. Do you long for more Harry or do you wish the boy who lived had died long ago? If you display strong feelings either way, this might just be the show for you. An unauthorized parody of the Potter books, this two-man show mocks the whole of... More >>

Well, this one is certainly tough to resist: a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer-winning Death of a Salesman, starring none other than Philip Seymour Hoffman as tortured salesman Willy Loman, powerhouse Linda Emond as his wife, and dashing Andrew Garfield (of The Social... More >>

Long fallen to the wrecking ball, 7 Middagh Street once housed a remarkable domestic experiment. Its renters included W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee. Now composer Gabriel Kahane and book writer Seth Bockley have moved back in, with a musical about this... More >>

The short-lived Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis has been dead nearly 30 years, but downtown stalwarts such as Justin Vivian Bond and Bridget Everett will attempt to resurrect her in this pastiche musical, conceived and directed by Scott Wittman. They’ll attempt to revive her with... More >>

Attempting to describe Pulitzer finalist Will Eno's plays is a futile exercise. Thom Paine: A man talks for a while. Middletown: Inhabitants of a small municipality live their lives. So it’s not such a disadvantage that the Signature has released few details about this new drama, directed... More >>

Some women age with remarkable grace, and some, like Sonia, the heroine of Fernanda Coppel’s play, mark their 40th birthday by running away from home and toward fried foods. This guacamole-studded comedy, at Atlantic Stage 2, tells of a teenager’s attempt to bring her mother home. More >>

The Papal Schism of 1378! What, that doesn’t strike you as surefire comedic material? Then you, apparently, have little in common with playwright Kenneth Lonergan. Fulfilling his commission for the Signature, Lonergan offers a “new and meandering comedy with no contemporary... More >>

Prisons are rarely lauded for their kindness, clemency, and fine conditions and Alcatraz certainly wasn’t a model of the form. Dan Gordon’s play, based on his documentary, draws on a law case that helped to reveal the appalling conditions at the prison. Chad Kimball plays an inmate;... More >>

Somewhere—well, not precisely over the rainbow, but in London’s Trafalgar Studios—Tracie Bennett created an indelible performance as the self-lacerating, sottish film and stage star Judy Garland. Now Bennett has brought Peter Quilter’s play, directed by Terry Johnson,... More >>

The Roundabout Theater stages a college reunion with a revival of this 1984 Simon Gray drama about the intersecting lives of artsy Cambridge undergrads from the late ‘60s to the mid ‘80s. Taking a break from the Tectonic Theatre Project, director Moisés Kaufman is head... More >>

Recent fossil discoveries have posited that early, sizeable relatives of the rabbit may have weighed more than 30 pounds. And still these aren’t nearly as large as the six-foot bunny that Elwood P. Dowd (Jim Parsons) claims to see in Mary Chase’s 1944 comedy. Roundabout revives... More >>

Martha Gellhorn boasted an impressive résumé—war correspondent, novelist, wife to Ernest Hemingway. The Mint Theater reminds us of another vocation: playwright. In 1946, she and fellow journalist Virginia Cowles scripted this comedy in which war plays a supporting role in... More >>

Who doesn’t like a Gershwin tune? The producers of the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It are betting no one. Taking all the favorite Gershwin classics (including “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” and “Someone to... More >>

When not suffering savage syphilis, Paul Gauguin made quite a name for himself as an Impressionist. And now writer-composer George Fischoff presents his impressions of the stockbroker turned painter in the return of this musical bioplay that travels from bohemian Paris to bare-breasted Tahiti. More >>

Shy, Weitz isn’t. Though his earlier plays have received middling reviews, Weitz has returned with a new script and a pair of young and attractive stars to act it. Topher Grace plays Porter, a corporate go-getter who’s stopped. Olivia Thirlby is the girl who might just start him up... More >>

Dive into the American premiere of this Mark Ravenhill play, originally commissioned by the notable British company Frantic Assembly. Ianthe Demos directs the script, which concerns a house party that turns less than festive. Perhaps Ravenhill himself, in town to direct for Soho Rep, will come... More >>

Hamlet complains that he has of late, but wherefore he knows not, lost all his mirth. So why not send in the clowns. That’s what H.M. Koutoukas did, more or less. In this 1967 play, now arrived at La MaMa, three clowns confront comedy and tragedy as they attempt to practice their art. More >>

Though I was born too late to enjoy an '80s prom myself, I may once have actively requested Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" at a junior high semiformal. Conversely, this interactive show aims to give nostalgia musicals a good name when it invites audiences to drink, dance, and vote for... More >>

“One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool.” So declares his enemy Caiphas in Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s 1971 musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Broadway producers apparently agree with him as they’ve agreed to mount a revival of the hallowed rock opera, directed by... More >>