The concept falls flat in Shakespeare in the Park’s first offering this summer. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. Normally, I’d use this space to summarize the plot, but the story of Romeo and Juliet, so ...

Packed with banging tunes, striking choreography, and sharp performances, this new musical is so much fun Lorin Wertheimer doesn’t even mind its less-than-compelling book. I attended New York Theatre ...

Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry unfolds on the kind of sultry South Carolina night where the air practically boils and a soundtrack of skeeters buzz in the mist. I saw the play on such a night in New York ...

This vampire musical succeeds on spectacle, but belabors its themes. Loren Noveck reviews. It is telling that the website for The Lost Boys, a new musical adaptation of the 1980s horror comedy film, ...

Craig Baldwin’s modern, bold rendering of Shakespeare’s classic reveals new dimensions of the text, particularly through a wonderful central performance by Michael Urie. Patrick Maley reviews. Modern, ...

This revival proves that the show has only gained in popularity since its original production, achieving cult status, but losing its guts. Lane Williamson reviews. In the eleven years since Heathers: ...

I have a confession: It took me a long time to warm up to King Lear. It’s considered by many to be Shakespeare’s finest play, and perhaps even the greatest play in the English language play, but it ...

William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical comes back to New York with the warmth of an old friend. Lane Williamson reviews. William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s delightfully quirky musical The 25th ...

Bedlam presents a revival of Shakespeare’s play without the company’s usual sense of fun. Patrick J. Maley reviews. Under the artistic direction of Eric Tucker, Bedlam has consistently proven itself a ...

The second Broadway revival of Ahrens, Flaherty, and McNally’s musical about America opens, powerful as ever, at Lincoln Center. Lane Williamson reviews. It remains the best musical about America.

An unusual dance/thriller hybrid builds to a striking ending. Loren Noveck reviews. An unsettled, uneasy pairing of a rural crime story (whose mystery, as noted, lies more in the puzzling ...

A series of monologues, written and originally performed by Whoopi Goldberg more than four decades ago, make a grand return to New York in the hands of five stellar actresses. Juliet Hindell reviews.