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Kyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined(©Eric Ray Davidson)    Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, the accurately titled new music… more »

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot (Photo by Joan Marcus)    Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. After taking their bows… more »

Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night" (Photo by Joan Marcus)   Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, having to sit through every Hamlet and King Lear that comes the pik… more »

Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight(Photo by Matthew Murphy)   It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened on Broadway could just have easily taken its title from Duke… more »

Daniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)   That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal directed by Mike Nichols. One… more »

  It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was written by its founder, Berry Gordy, and it doesn’t exactly dig very deep… more »

It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the new British import Matilda the Musical, ba… more »

Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to fill the void left by the closing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Adapt… more »

 Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in breakneck fashion by George C. Wolfe and featuring a terrific perfor… more »

  If the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Theater, and they’re all, to varying degrees, both deaf and blind. But that doesn’t stop them… more »

There are plenty of fireworks in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but sadly they’re all offstage. For this production marking Scarlett Johansson’s return to Broadway after winning a Tony Award for A View From the Bri… more »

The central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion is likely to be shared by the audience, as the play seems intent on providing… more »