Dory Previn chanelled by Kate Dimbleby

Beware Of Young Girls: Kate Dimbleby Sings The Dory Previn Story - Dimbleby is fantastic as Dory. With a voice that's warm, clear and full, she delivers Previn's gems with flawless phrasing and meticulous shading. . . Read More

A look back at the world of Cafe Society

Café Society Swing - It was called, "the wrong place for the right people," but it was a prime New York hot spot in the 1930's and '40's. . . Re

T. R. Knight makes Pocatello worth a visi

Pocatello -T. R. Knight's Eddie joins Samuel D. Hunter's gallery of men at a traumatic moment in their lives. . . Read More

Every Brilliant Thing celebrates life

Every Brilliant Thing - this solo show takes a firm stance that in the face of hardship, that's when it's most important to celebrate what's brilliant in life. . . Read More

My review of HBO's Olive Kitteridge

#Olive Kitteredge, a potent theatrical experience on the home screen

Ayad Ahktar's best play yet: The Invisible Hand

The #Invisible Hand - #Ayad Ahktar's suspenseful play is depressingly timely . . Read More

The Elephant Man: a coup for Bradley Cooper

#The Elephant Man - #Bradley Cooper makes the much done Pomerance play an event . . Read More

Broadway theater hosts gussied up magic show, The Illusionists sionists

#Illusionists, Witness the Impossible - these talented tricksters have genuine appeal, but the show's blaring music, hokey jokes, and sense of self-importance get in the way. It's more sizzle than steak. . .

Disenchanted-- far less grim than the Grimms

Disenchanted - no let-up to the brittle wit and savvy wisdom spread through by this grand music

Sam Shepard's mythical thriller

A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) - #Sam Shepard brings the myth of Oedipus into the Mojave Desert in an intriguing if ungainly new play . .

a charming #F.Scott Fitgeral musical

The Underclassman -# Prospect Company's collegiate musical is not perfect but perfect enough not to miss . . Read More

A new but still so-so Allegro

Allegro - Rodger & Hammerstein's only commercial flop gets the John Doyle treatment at Clasic Stage . . Read More

John Douglas Thompson=a mesmerizing villain

Tamburlaine, Parts I and II - John Douglas Thompson adds another jewel to his crown as Marlowe's bloodthirsty conqueror . . Read More

A timely new Kitchen sink drama-#By the Water

#By The Water - #Sharyn Rothstein's sets her nod to Arthur Miller's Loman family in Staten Island after #Hurricane Sandy . . Read More

Young Jean Lee's XMas party

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Straight White Men - #Young Jean Lee's latest play at the Public Theater .

Punk Rock: Loud, Scary, Gripping

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#Punk Rock - gripping, but also terrifying portrait of British teenagers in peril Read More

New Side Show right on the money

Side Show - A smartly rejiggered, beautifully staged and ideally cast musical with a superb cast

Sha's Major Barbara well done at the Pearl

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Major Barbara - Shaw's play gets a fine production at the Pearl Theater . . Read More

Katori Hall's Rwanda massare play

Our Lady of Kibeho - #Katori Hall's play is about a lot more than a young Catholic girl's miraculous vision . . Read More

Hugh Jackman goes fishing--and his fans bite the bait

The River - Hugh Jackman fans have moved Jezz Butterwoth's intimate play into a large Broadway hous

Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse well woth seeing

Grand Concourse -With the assets of a strong cast and thoughtful direction, Heidi Shreck tackles challenging topics without trying to force any unreasonably neat conclusions . . Read More

Lost Lake: swell acting but implausible script

#Lost Lake - a new 2-hander by #Pulitzer Prize winner #David Auburn . . Rea

#Sondheim's first gig at York Theater

Saturday Night - The York's #Musicals In Mufti production is a portrait — or at least a snapshot — of a young artist whose contribution to musical theater would go on to be enormous. . . Read More

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#Made in Dagenham - This musical adaptation of the film comes with quite some pedigree. . . Read More

First Episode - #Terence Ratigan's first play, written with his South African friend and fellow undergraduate Philip Heimann. . . Read M

The# Band Wagon Something old, newly exhilarating

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#The Band Wagon - this cast is bringing out the best and the funniest aspects of this grandly giddy musical Read More

Beautifully staged but overly gentle# Oldest Boy

The Oldest Boy - #Sarah Ruhl's beautiful new play a triumph for #Celia Keenan-Bolger, but could use a little more drama . . Read More

#Sticks and Bones is still bone chilling

Sticks and Bones - #David Rabe's 43-year-old play gets a splendidly performed and depressingly opportune, blow-to-the-gut revival. . . Read More

#The Real Thing-wordy in a dazzling way

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The Real Thing - It will undoubtedly dazzle those as yet unfamiliar with the renowned playwright's ultra sophisticated wordplay.Read More

Terrence McNally's Lips Together. . .has aged

#Lips Together, Teeth Apart - Another #Terrence McNally oldie given a new production . . Read More

Suzan-Lori Parks' powerful new play - don't miss it!

#Father Comes Home From The Wars (parts 1, 2 & 3) -# Suzan-Lori Parks' powerful trilogy at the Public Theater . . Read More

A lot to like about The Last Ship

#The Last Ship -   #Sting sails to Broadway with a musical featuring an original story and score. . Read More

Issues galore in Disgraced, now on Broadway

Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prihze play on Broadway with a new foursome around the dinner table.. . Read Mor

Jonathan Lethem's Novel is musicalized

#The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem's sprawling Brooklyn novel is now a lively, sprawling folk-sical. . . Read More

On the Town -bigger and better than ever on Broadway

On the Town - this old wine in a flavorful new bottle lands successfully in a 4x bigger Broadway theater . . Read More

This solo play ok- but no longer soars

The Belle Of Amherst - William Luce's solo play about Emily Dickinson is back in New York with Joley Richardson as the reclusive poet. . . Read More

Found: a musical about discarded ephemera

Found - discarded ephemera: an unlikely but fun source for a musical . . Read More

Jacuzzi: Menace & mystery bubbleup at Ars Nova

jacuzzi - a Pinteresque mystery at Ars Nova . . . Read More

Billy Porter's growing-up play--but without billy

While I Yet Live - It's too bad Billy Porter isn't on stage in his new autobiographical play . . . Read More

It's Only a Play-Terence McNally's backstage jokefest

It's Only a Play - Terence McNally's updated backstage comedy works best when it plays up the farce . . Read More

Chekhov trumps Margulies in The Country House

The Country House - Donald Margulies's ode to Chekhov ends up as something of a poor cousin to the work of its honoree . . Read More

A new play that dazzles in every way must-see

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time - a genre-crossing, electrifying stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's best selling novel . . Read More

An Old-fashioned comedy still lots of fun

You Can't Take It With You - An all-star cast proves that you can still appreciate Kaufman and Hart's wit and humor . . Read More

New Twist for A Walk In The Woods

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A Walk in the Woods - winningly energized by the avoidance or any inference that the negotiators are of the opposite sex. Read More

A rare Stoppard play: beautiful & witty

Indian Ink - The most beautiful production currently on any stage: Tom Stoppard's time and continent traveling play . . Read More

Cast of 12 entertainingly "Icebound"

Icebound - a fine revival of a long-ago Pulitzer winner Read More

Neil LaBute takes a shot at Hollywood

The Money Shot - Neil LaBute's Hollywood send-up . . Read M

An iconic film now an ingenious theatrical event

Scenes From a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman's classic problem marriage film appropriated by Ivo Van Hove and presented as a roundelay . . Read More

Peter Brook still astonishes with Valley of Astonishment

The Valley of Astonishment - Holistically, this offers a rich experience for nearly all the senses (taste is covered by the Polonsky Shakespeare Center's newly opened cafe, aptly christened Food and Drink). . . Read More

a new, old-style kitchen sink drama

Almost Home - Home is yet another battleground for this home from the wars Marine . . Read Mo

stop tweeting long enough to catch this ode to letters

Love Letters - Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy launch the Broadway production of A. R. Gurney's 35-year-old epistolary 2-hander . . Read More