Review: Jessica Lange Stars in Paula Vogel?s ?Mother Play?

Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel?s latest family drama.

Review: A New ?Great Gatsby? Leads With Comedy and Romance

This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald?s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.

Review: ?Jordans? Tackles Race at Work at the Public Theater

Alternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater?s latest production tackles race and the modern workplace.

?Forbidden Broadway? Scraps Summer Broadway Run, Citing Crowded Season

The parody show was scheduled to begin performances in July at the Helen Hayes Theater.

?Harlequin, Refined by Love? Review: A French Showman?s First Steps

The revival of a 2006 work by Thomas Jolly, the director masterminding the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, shows his gift for visual flamboyance.

Review: Welcome to ?Illinoise,? Land of Love, Grief and Zombies

Sufjan Stevens?s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.

Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ?Uncle Vanya?

Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it?s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.

The Culture Desk: Alicia Keys on Reimagining ?Fallin? for Broadway

The singer talks about finding a new home for her first hit.

Improv Is Making a Comeback in New York

The pandemic dealt a major blow to the once-thriving comedy form, but a new energy can be seen in performances throughout the city.

?Mary Jane? Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care

Amy Herzog?s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.

?Orlando? Review: A Virginia Woolf Fantasy That Plays With Gender

In this revival of Sarah Ruhl?s adaptation of the Woolf novel, now starring Taylor Mac, the flashes of comedy can?t make up for the loss of poetry.

?Oh, Mary!,? a Surprise Downtown Hit, Will Play Broadway This Summer

Cole Escola?s madcap comedy about the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln will begin performances in June.

Lady Macbeth Gets Two Very Different Interpretations

One of Shakespeare?s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.

?Mary Jane,? ?Hell?s Kitchen? and More New Broadway Shows

This past week has been jam-packed with openings. Our reviewers think these new shows are worth knowing about even if you?re not planning to see them.

Carrie Robbins, Costume Designer for Dozens of Broadway Shows, Dies at 81

She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for ?Grease? (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more.

Terry Carter, Barrier-Breaking Actor and Documentarian, Dies at 95

He was a rare Black presence on ?Combat!? and ?The Phil Silvers Show,? then made well-regarded documentaries on luminaries like Duke Ellington and Katherine Dunham.

Huey Lewis?s Music Makes ?The Heart of Rock and Roll?

The new musical doesn?t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments ? almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story.

?Cabaret? Opening on Broadway: Eddie Redmayne, Angela Bassett and Baz Luhrmann

A party for the buzzy revival of the Broadway musical was held at a theater that has been transformed to look like a 1930s-era nightclub.

?Patriots? Review: What Happened to the Man Who Made Putin?

Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan?s cheesy-fun play, it?s not always clear which is which.

Review: ?Grenfell? Sees Tower Fire Through Residents? Eyes

At St. Ann?s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.

How ?Stereophonic? Made Musicians Out of Actors

The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars.

?Cabaret? Review: Dancing, and Screaming, at the End of the World

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.

?Hell?s Kitchen? Review: Alicia Keys?s Musical Finds Its Groove on Broadway

The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, ?stands out as one of the rare must-sees? in a crowded season.

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