Theater
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‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Theater Review: Dianne Wiest and Tonya Pinkins Face Off in Tense Office Comedy
Cynthia Nixon referees in her auspicious directorial debut, making sure not to turn anyone into an obvious villain
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‘A Month in the Country’ Theater Review: Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage Offer Up 2 Hours in the Hamptons
Ivan Turgenev’s characters aren’t in love with who they’re supposed to be, and yet, they’re terribly civilized about it
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‘Let the Right One In’ Theater Review: Eli’s Back and She’s Learned a New Trick From Carrie
This little vampire makes you believe she can bite, wrestle and choke a man twice her size to death. It’s like a trip back to the Grand Guignol and just as bloody
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‘I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard’ Theater Review: Halley Feiffer Writes Her Daddy Dearest Play
The drama can be described as “Whiplash” meets “The Heiress,” as the writer goes straight for the jugular through the heart
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‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ Theater Review: Jason Robert Brown Gambles on Andrew Bergman’s Movie
In this age of gross-out humor, the fiancée-as-payment plot is relatively mild. But smarm stills needs charm to work on stage
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‘The Invisible Hand’ Theater Review: It’s ‘Margin Call’ Set Inside a Pakistani Bunker
Ayad Akhtar creates suspense, not from an impending beheading but from what a prisoner teaches his captor about the stock market
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Bradley Cooper in ‘The Elephant Man’ Offers Gorgeous Along With The Beast
With Cooper in the lead, the play takes on new meaning, teaching us what it’s like to be a movie star in ways E! and TMZ never could
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‘The Illusionists’ Theater Review: It’s a Magic Show That’s Houdini Times Seven
Anyone who’s ever seen newsreels of Houdini has wanted to go back in time to experience first-hand the cheesy excitement of seeing a stunt performer risk his life. Here’s your chance
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‘A Particle of Dread’ Theater Review: Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea Eyeball Oedipus
Rea may be the first Oedipus to play the role in blood-spattered overalls, and he deftly handles Shepard’s freewheeling segues from tragedy to slapstick and back
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‘A Delicate Balance’ Theater Review: Glenn Close Revisits More Than One Diva
Close’s strong, unyielding matriarch is sister to Norma Desmond from “Sunset Boulevard,” the actress’ last role on Broadway twenty years ago
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Mike Nichols Appreciation: A Humane, Witty Renaissance Man
Sketch comic turned director turned EGOT, he had the kind of career — and life — that could only happen in the 20th century
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‘By the Water’ Theater Review: Superstorm Sandy Returns, This Time with Glimpses of Arthur Miller
Sharyn Rothstein’s new play recalls Miller’s “All My Sons,” and to her credit, the absorbing story deserves more than its current one act
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‘Punk Rock’ Theater Review: Simon Stephens’ New Play Is Much More Than a ‘Curious Incident’
Some of the British slang doesn’t translate, but Stephens’ grasp of those young hormones that can create a “Lord of the Flies” situation does cross the pond
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‘Side Show’ Theater Review: Bill Condon Gives Twin Dreamgirls Another Shot at Stardom
In this smashing new revival, the Hilton sisters are treated as “freaks,” but Condon quickly ups the glam quotient to create a novel Cinderella story
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‘The River’ Theater Review: Hugh Jackman Gives a Lesson in Fly-Fishing
There’s much talk about reflection and recycling in Jez Butterworth’s play about a devoted fisherman-womanizer. But where’s the sexual heat?
