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  • Exploring the pain of Alzheimer’s

    A new musical about Alzheimer’s disease? If you harbor suspicions that the musical, an all-American dramatic form, skews toward... More >>

  • Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin engulf HERE with marriage equality

    Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin’s A Marriage has modest ambitions. The two conceptual/performance artists, married in 2008, want viewers to... More >>

  • Losing their religion

    The title of Richard Greenberg's new play, The Assembled Parties (Friedman Theatre), carries multiple meanings. Its "parties" are a pair of... More >>

  • The onstage installation which the audience is invited to come up and inspect before the performance of Colm Toibin’s Testament of Mary... More >>

  • A recent college grad finds himself back home, careerless and directionless. His rich father, interfering stepmother, and doting grandmother... More >>

  • Playing a first-rate conflicted gay burlesque star

    Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance (Lyceum Theatre) has got what it deserves from Lincoln Center Theater: a first-rate production, handsomely... More >>

  • Pregnancy, PTSD, and potted plants in Women’s Project play

    The Women’s Project tends to favor domestic comedies that play like tragedies. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Recent shows such... More >>

  • Lyle Kessler revival has Broadway all a-Twitter

    Any Broadway show has much to live up to: burgeoning production costs; audience hopes inflated by high ticket prices; competition from film,... More >>

  • Frank Wildhorn's musical gets a revival on Broadway

    The new Broadway revival of the musical Jekyll & Hyde feels more like an exhumation of sorts. Some may remember the first time it was here in the... More >>

  • What did Shakespeare think about during his fallow final years? The playwright’s retirement remains a mystery. We find it hard to imagine... More >>

  • Boomers Turn Broadway into a Pop-Music Scrapbook

    Here’s a test you can take to help determine whether shelling out $150-plus for the Motown musical is for you. Head on over to YouTube, and... More >>

  • Working Theater Explores Immigrants’ Plight

    This spring, Congress is yet again taking up the debate over immigration reform. And for every day politicians spend arguing over the fate of... More >>

  • Tristan Sturrock’s solo sends chills up the spine

    If you were to wander backstage, into green rooms and dressing rooms and the dark spaces of the wings, you might hear performers whispering a... More >>

  • In Red Bull revival, a couple vow to love, honor, and destroy

    Edgar and Alice are soon to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. What would constitute an appropriate gift? Arsenic? Cyanide? A neatly... More >>

  • Alan Cumming Brings Solo Sound and Fury to Broadway

    Macbeth is one of the loneliest characters Shakespeare ever wrote. He sacrifices everything to his ravenous ambition—sleep, friendship,... More >>

  • Tanya Barfield’s new play about biracial adoption loses reception with distracting tactics

    Adoption, a touchy subject in all instances, is the ostensible topic of The Call (Playwrights Horizons), a small, tautly written,... More >>

  • Shop talk

    I'd probably be able to discuss Kinky Boots (Hirschfeld Theatre) much more lucidly if I could only figure out in what decade it's meant to take... More >>

  • Young gamers rack up experience and felonies in New Georges drama

    In 2007, a young Ohio couple with a penchant for role-playing games robbed nearly $8 million from an armored car company and were promptly... More >>

  • Telling us what’s wrong with humanity

    For us—the esteemed members of the Academy seated in the auditorium—the evening’s guest lecturer is a small hunched man... More >>

  • Witness Relocation’s show looks at love in all the best places

    Missed out on spring break? Ready to spend a few sun-drenched afternoons on an island drinking Châteauneuf-du-Pape and eating tarte tatin... More >>

  • Joesph Keckler’s rhapsody of a shroom trip

    “I’m not really an opera,” says dynamic performer Joseph Keckler at the start of his tantalizing song... More >>

  • Tentatively, I’d say that there might be some good work in Tim Minchin’s music and lyrics for the new musical Matilda (Shubert... More >>

  • Dramatic reductions

    Every play is a partisan act, giving only the playwright's view of the events it describes. When it's fiction, and the playwright has dreamed up... More >>

  • It’s Scots on the rocks in David Harrower’s new two-hander

    Scots playwright David Harrower caught the attention of American audiences with Blackbird, a sly and agonizing two-character play that revealed a... More >>

  • Moving vehicles

    The new musical Hands on a Hard Body (Atkinson Theatre) opened just as City Center's Encores! series revived the 1966 musical It's a Bird . . .... More >>

  • Fiona Shaw and Colm Tóibin explore the inner life of Jesus's mom

    As a girl in County Cork, the Irish actor Fiona Shaw walked past a statue of the Virgin Mary every day on her way to school. She didn't care much... More >>

  • Julius Caesar Performances begin April 10 The last time the Royal Shakespeare Company graced our shores, they brought five shows and an entire... More >>

  • Puzzle pieces

    Christopher Durang's new play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Golden Theatre), which has just transferred to Broadway from its Lincoln... More >>

  • Wakka Wakka’s puppets deal with Iceland’s banking crisis

    New York audiences are well accustomed to seeing nudity on the stage, but witnessing a man’s junk ripen into a rock-solid boner has got to... More >>

  • Cast and creatives make a dog’s dinner of Truman Capote's novella

    Well, first you’ll want to know about the star: sleek of hair and body, effortlessly graceful, vulnerable and jaded by turns, but perhaps... More >>

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Bitter Homes and Gardens: 'Better Homes' at SculptureCenter Bitter Homes and Gardens: 'Better Homes' at SculptureCenter

In 1958, a six-year-old Mad Magazine published a parody of America's fourth-most popular newsstand title, which they called Bitter Homes and Gardens. Among its articles were "They Built Their House… More >>

Tyson Takes a <i>Trip to Bountiful</i>; Imelda Dominates <i>Here Lies Love</i>; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers

Three obstinate females—one fictional and two historical—dominated my theatergoing last week. Tenacious women make great showy roles for leading actresses, and also seem to have a stimulating effect on male… More >>

Claire Messud is a Novelist, Not a "Woman Novelist" Claire Messud is a Novelist, Not a "Woman Novelist"

"How angry am I? You don't want to know," begins the gripping first chapter of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf). The furious voice belongs to Nora Eldridge,… More >>

<i>The Memory Show</i>: Senior Moments The Memory Show: Senior Moments

A new musical about Alzheimer’s disease? If you harbor suspicions that the musical, an all-American dramatic form, skews toward sentimentality, The Memory Show won't convince you otherwise. This two-hander, produced… More >>

<i>A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia)</i>: Honeymooners A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia): Honeymooners

Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin’s A Marriage has modest ambitions. The two conceptual/performance artists, married in 2008, want viewers to contemplate gay marriage, queer assimilation, and fetishization of the suburbs.… More >>

Ben Durham and the Art of the Mug Shot Ben Durham and the Art of the Mug Shot

Ben Durham doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would be involved with criminals and delinquents. He has the earnest and measured mien of a philosophy student. But Durham's… More >>

Greenberg's <i>Assembled Parties</i> (Sort of) Celebrate Christmas; Odets gives Hollywood A <i>Big Knife</i> Greenberg's Assembled Parties (Sort of) Celebrate Christmas; Odets gives Hollywood A Big Knife

The title of Richard Greenberg's new play, The Assembled Parties (Friedman Theatre), carries multiple meanings. Its "parties" are a pair of Christmas dinners, occurring 20 years apart, and also the… More >>

Author Rachel Kushner Loves Motorcycles and Flamethrowers Author Rachel Kushner Loves Motorcycles and Flamethrowers

Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the novelist who is writing about… More >>

<i>Testament of Mary</i>: T&oacute;ib&iacute;n&rsquo;s play gives Fiona Shaw endless opportunities for self-indulgence Testament of Mary: Tóibín’s play gives Fiona Shaw endless opportunities for self-indulgence

The onstage installation which the audience is invited to come up and inspect before the performance of Colm Toibin’s Testament of Mary (Walter Kerr Theatre) includes a live vulture, an… More >>

<i>Pippin</i>: Ring Tone Pippin: Ring Tone

A recent college grad finds himself back home, careerless and directionless. His rich father, interfering stepmother, and doting grandmother suggest various professions and pursuits, but he can’t stick with anything… More >>


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