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A little bit of Las Vegas has arrived in New York for the holiday season. It takes the form of Donny & Marie: A Broadway Christmas, featuring the sibling performers who have nearly a century’s worth of show business experience between them. While wat… more »

A romantic triangle of sorts is explored in Edna O’Brien’s elusive and allusive new play, now making its U.S. premiere in a production imported from Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Featuring sterling performances by Niall Buggy, Beth Cooke and two-t… more »

Does the world really need another 18th century British farce? That question is fairly begged by the arrival of Nick Jones’ pastiche of a Restoration comedy that has opened courtesy of the Lincoln Center’s developmental initiative, LCT3. Aping its in… more »

It was an Oscar nominated foreign-language film and a hit on the West End in London, but Elling proves well nigh insufferable in its Broadway incarnation. Playwright Simon Bent’s adaptation of the Norwegian novels by Ingvar Ambjornsen and the subsequent… more »

There’s so much energy, intellectual ambition and gorgeous stagecraft on display in A Free Man of Color that it’s disheartening to report that it barely works at all. John Guare’s comic, historical epic dealing largely with the Louisiana Purchase is so w… more »

Al Pacino famously spends years obsessing on the Shakespearean roles he takes on, but the results definitely pay off. Such is the case with his Shylock in the production of the Bard’s still controversial The Merchant of Venice that has transferred to Bro… more »

It makes sense that, like the Disney and Dreamworks studios, Warner Bros. would want to mine its cinematic properties for Broadway musical treatment. Less understandable is why, for their attempt at a Christmas perennial with an adaptation of the hit Wil… more »

Stephen Sondheim Theatre, NYC  His fans may have aged, but somehow Pee-wee Herman, aka Paul Reubens, has somehow managed to avoid the ravages of time. Appearing for the first time on Broadway in a revamped version of the live show that first garner… more »

“After the Revolution”Playwrights Horizons, NYCThrough Nov. 28 Politics and family drama mesh uneasily in “After the Revolution,” Amy Herzog’s densely textured play about three generations of a family of leftist activists. Previously seen at the… more »

Colin Quinn: Long Story ShortHelen Hayes Theatre, NYCThrough Jan. 8                When a stand-up comedian ventures onto Broadway, he usually feels the requirement to give his show a “theme.” Such is the case with Colin Quinn: Long Story Sho… more »