a Curtain Up Feature - Me#First in The Berkshires: Where Able and Ambitious Female Theater Makers Have Thrived Long Before the Me#Too Movement and the Wave of Women Running for Government Jobs Read
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King Kong - The iconic four-footed super hero is musicalized, and the beast once again upstages the beauty. . . Read
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Torch Song - 2nd Stage transfers the -act version of Harvey Firestone's trilogy to its Broadway home. Read
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The Waverly Gallery - Another Kenneth Lonergan play that's aged well enough for a wonderful reprise on Broadway Read
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The Ferryman - Jez Butterworth's multi-generational family and political drama has so many assets that it's eminently watchable throught more than three hours. . . Read
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Bernhardt/Hamlet -
Theresa Rebeck's comic faction brings Janet McTeer back to Broadway as the legendary Sarah Bernhardt. . . Read
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The Nap - British playwright Richard Bean has developed a story about the world of professional snooker into a darkly comic crime caper. . .Read
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Pretty Woman - another movie hit sings and dances to Broadway, this one with an essentially sleazy pair turned into fairy tale romantic lovers. . . Read
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straight White Men - It would be nice to see this first Broadway production by an Asian-American woman as a sign that America will soon be a more welcoming place for people of all backgrounds, colors and genders than it is currently. . . Read
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Head Over Heels - Jukebox musicals come simple and glitzy-- like this elaborately staged mashup of a 16th Century romance and the Go-Go songbook. . . Read
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Summer - the latest "jukesical" to hit Broadway, this one with 3 Donna Summers Read
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My Fair Lady - A lavishly staged new production of the ever "loverly" classic musical. . . Read
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Mean Girls - Another teen audience targeted movie now sing and dances on Broadway Read
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Frozen - A visually rich production that keeps us wide-eyed and on tenterhooks for more than two hours, even when we know how things are going to end. . . Read
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Once On This Island - Tony Award for Best Musical Revival! This musical may be small in its scope, but when compared to some, it achieves its own sense of grandness by being both magical and seductive— an unbeatable combination. Read
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The Band's Visit -Winner of 10 Tony Awards-including best play, best actor/actress/director/book!Read
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Anastasia - The famous Russian princess fairy tale boasts a top team Read
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School of Rock -closing 1/20/19 It's a large, loud show with a totally improbable plot but it;s impossible not to root for its ensemble of super talented kids . . . .
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Thom Pain (based on nothing) - Will Eno's Beckett-inflected navel-gazing solo is getting .a superb revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center . . s Read
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Chinese Lady - Lloyd Suh' charming fact-based play gets an all too brief run on Theatre Row. . . Read
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Eve's Song - a play that depicts vividly and with humor the toxic effects of racism.Read
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Lewiston/Clarkston - A powerful play diptych by Samuel D. Hunter is performed in full for the first time at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.Read
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The Thanksgiving Play - Larissa FastHorse sets the record straight about the long perpetrated myths about that beloved holiday, and manages to do so hilariously. . .
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I Was Most Alive with You - Craig Lucas tackles a new format and multiple other issues in a relentlessly relevant modern day Book of Job drama. . . Read
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The True - Edie Falco returns to the stage in Sharr White's new play about a real life behind-the-scenes political mover and shaker Read
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Uncle Vanya -Extended to 10/28! Richard Nelson has Chekhov's unhappy Russians air their unhappiness and grievances around a kitchen table. . . Read
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Neurosis - Neil Simon's
spirit lives on in this new musical. . . . Read
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Fiddler on the Roof The show will move uptown to Stage 42 from 2/11/19; opening 2/21/19 -
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's (NYTF)
excellent Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof as directed by Joel Grey makes us fall in love with Tevye, his wife, Golde, and his three daughters all over again. Read
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Desperate Measures -Closing 10/28/18 The delightful Shakespeare inspired musical is terrific as ever at New World Stages. . .Read
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Don Quixote A delicious comedy with heart starring David Threlfall as the capricious and gallant Don Quixote . . . .
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I and You A play with surprises that make it impossible to fully review starring Maisie Williams . . . .
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The Wipers Times An uplifting play about a satirical newspaper produced in the trenches by soldiers and co-written by the editor of Private Eye. . . .
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Macbeth Polly Findlay's Macbeth has juvenile witches . . . .
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The Lehman Trilogy- a look at the origins of the bank which failed spectacularly in 2008, with a British star cast and Sam Mendes as director . . .
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Measure for Measure In her penultimate production for the Donmar, Josie Rourke plays the play twice with two gender switching roles . . . .
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Company Stephen Sondheim's Company gets a meaningful and invigorating makeover with Bobby becoming Bobbie and starring Rosalie Craig and Patti Lupone . . . .
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The Inheritance Stephen Daldry directs Matthew Lopez's play looking at three generations of gay men through a lens set by EM Forster . . . .
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The Height of the Storm Florian Zeller's elliptical play stars Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce in a play about death and denial . . . .
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Mythic The God of the Underworld Hades is the most attractive prospect in this musical myth of the girl and those fateful pomegranate seeds . . . .
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42nd Street London gets the full Broadway spectacular, set a few years into the Great Depression but with a cast of 50 tap dancing to Busby Berkeley standards with Bonny Langford joining the cast as Dorothy Brock . . . .
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Othello English Touring Theatre bring their stimulating production of Othello on tour . . . .
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Six Henry VIII's famous succession of six wives form the basis for this feminist, satirical and thrilling musical peopled by pop princesses . . . .
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Tina Tina opens in London with a fabulous new star Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner . . . .
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Señor Plummer's Final Fiesta -this crazy quilt of a Final Fiesta takes site-specific, follow-along drama to a delightful level. You might even learn a thing or two about a local favorite son. Just make sure to activate your malarkey detector. . . Read
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Washington - DC
Anything Goes - while this production lacks the kick of champagne it can still glide, happily, on Corbin Bleu's stellar singing/dancing/acting and, as always, Cole Porter's de-lovely music and lyrics. . . Read
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Billy Elliot - the Elton John musical has lost none of its charm or grit . . Read
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The Agitators -
The right to vote is very much on our minds as we await the outcome of the mid-term elections. That is why. Mat Smart's play is so timely and poignant. . . Read
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