To paraphrase Al Jolson's famous song, Toot, toot,Tootsie, hello!

Tootsie - To paraphrase Al Jolson's famous song, Toot, toot,Tootsie, hello! Read More

Ink a fine new play given a terrific production.

Ink - James Graham's play has been staged with stupendous originality and style and is performed with gusto by a large cast, made even larger with double casting. Read

Hadestown is not your typical Broadway musical-- and that's good news!

Hadestown - the most original new musical on Broadway takes us to hell and back to a soaring musical score.

A night with Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as Hillary and Clinton--

Broadway Hillary and Clinton - Laurie Metcalf is the chief reason to see Lucas Hath's imagined fly-on-the-wall peek at three scenes from a complicated marriage made even more complicated by. politics and marriage. Read M

Michael Stuhlbarg is a riveting Socrates-- the play is hardly a fun night out

Socrates - Justice,friendship, virtue,poetry,theater, death, democracy! Tim Blake Nelson takes us through a Socrates' wide ranging philosophical ponderings about the meaning of life within the context of his lifetime Read More

Lanfod Wilson's 32-year-old BurnThis does show its age

Broadway Burn This - Lanford Wilson's 32-year-old play is given new, if not entirely sucessful life at the Hudson Theater . .. Read More

Oklahoma! -- less sunny bu t the songs are still there

Oklahoma! - Daniel Fish's new look at the musical that launched the golden age of musicals. . .the ear hugging tunes are still there, but with a far less su

I wasn't mad about the Mad Ones Mrs. Murray's Menagerie

Mrs. Murray's Menagerie - Ars Nova launches its moves to a new home with a new play devised by The Mad Ones . . . Read More

Glend Jackson lives up to all the hype as King Lear

King Lear -this is indeed a not to be missed star turn by Jackson, with enough positive assets to overcome the directorial missteps. Read More

A fine new Julius Caesar from TNFA in Brooklyn

Broadway

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - In TNFA's production the ensemble's choreography is a major plus Read More

The Cradle Will Rock--dated but sadly timely

Broadway

The Cradle Will Rock -Marc Blitzstein's allegorical play with music revived by John Doyle at Classic Stage

Ain't No Mo' a provocative new satire by a new playwright

Ain't No Mo' - There are some things you can't pack in a suitcase. This becomes glaringly evident in Jordan E. Cooper's new play currently heating up the boards at the Public's LuEsther Hall. Read More

The Lehman Trilogy-- superb acting, staging - highly recommende

The Lehman Trilogy - Three superb actors lead us through the journey of three immigrant brothers' from Bavaria to America, from store keepers to bankers, from "too big to fail" to failure . . .Read More