‘The Demons’: 12-Hour Play, and Endless Bragging Rights
“The Demons,” a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season.
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Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed
“Next Fall” is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy.
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Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case
The new musical from the fabled songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb wears its halo like a barbed-wire hat.
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Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now
While Jonathan Reynolds’s assault on assumptions about the right to choose abortion is likely too crude to make theatergoers re-evaluate their positions, it did make me reconsider my view of political theater.
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'Neighbors': Not So Shocking After All?
In interviews after last night's show, many people, black and white, said that while disturbing at times, the play's trafficking in racial stereotypes proved an unexpectedly emotional theatrical experience.
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At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s belated sequel to “The Phantom of the Opera” feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth.
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Theater Review | 'Top Secret': A Vietnam War-Era Fight at New York Theater Workshop
While “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers” offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static.
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Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature
“Neighbors” is a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that sacrifices cogency and meaning for pure sensation.
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Theater Review | 'When the Rain Stops Falling': David Cromer Directs Andrew Bovell’s Multigenerational Drama
Andrew Bovell’s “When the Rain Stops Falling” is a fitfully moving but diagrammatic play about the long legacy of unnatural acts.
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Theater Listings: March 12 — 18
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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Answers From a Theater Historian, Part 2
More answers to readers' questions from Marc Robinson, a professor at Yale University.
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Paint Never Dries
Unflattering nickname for Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical "Love Never Dies."
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Vain Glorious | A Scar Is Born
Laura Linney and the makeup artist Mindy Hall gave a reporter a mini-tutorial on the art of the scar.
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Theater Review | 'The Duchess of Malfi': Bloody Family Affairs in a Red Bull Theater Production
The Red Bull Theater’s muddled production of John Webster’s “Duchess of Malfi” appears in the process of being explored rather than already discovered.
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Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': At St. Ann’s Warehouse, Youth, Frocks and Politics
Bette Bourne, a drag performer and activist from Britain, recounts his experience at the footlights and on the front lines in “A Life in Three Acts.”
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Theater Review | 'Blind': Craig Wright Retells the Oedipus Myth at Rattlestick
In “Blind,” the playwright Craig Wright has embarked on a modern retelling of the Oedipus story, but it’s never clear why he’s doing it.
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Music Review | Jeanine Tesori: Thoroughly Modern Music in Lincoln Center Songbook Series
Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.
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Theater Review | 'Candida': At Irish Rep: Two Adoring Men, One Woman in the Middle
Melissa Errico’s formidable beauty is probably the most persuasive element in the Irish Repertory Theater’s revival of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy “Candida.”
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Theater Review | Connecticut: A. R. Gurney’s ‘Sylvia’ at Long Wharf Theater
“Sylvia,” at the Long Wharf Theater, is about a poodle-Labrador retriever mix, known these days as a Labradoodle.
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Theater Review | ‘Finn’: At Skirball Center, Celtic Tale as Onstage Video Game
This adaptation of the Celtic tale of Finn Mac Cumhail tries to puff up a four-actor show with towering video effects.
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Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Christopher Walken Stars in Martin McDonagh’s New Play
Martin McDonagh’s erratically enjoyable “Behanding in Spokane” never matches the strange genius of its star, Christopher Walken.
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Theater Review | 'The Wonder': An All-Female Cast in a Madcap Farce at the Kirk Theater
Those who would see “The Wonder” and focus on its flaws are the same type of killjoys who would eat ice cream then whine about the calories.
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Theater Review | 'Brack’s Last Bachelor Party': Staging Ibsen’s Night of Misdeeds at 59E59 Theaters
“Brack’s Last Bachelor Party” imagines the party Judge Brack gives for George Tesman in “Hedda Gabler.”
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Theater Review | 'Conviction': At 59E59 Theaters, Israeli Play About the Inquisition
“Conviction,” an Israeli play about a Catholic priest who falls in love with a Jewish woman during the Spanish Inquisition, remains tepid.
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On the London Stage: Love May Die but Its Phantoms Play Enduring Roles in London
Temperatures rise in “Ghosts” and irony betrays “Sweet Nothings,” as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies” opens.
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With ‘Behanding,’ Martin McDonagh Is Not Mellowing With Age
Guns? Check. Explosions? Check. Martin McDonagh is back on Broadway with “A Behanding in Spokane.”
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Variety Lays Off the Critics Todd McCarthy and David Rooney
The show business trade paper said “economic reality” dictated jobs cuts, eight in total.
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Dance: Twyla Tharp Returns to Broadway With ‘Come Fly Away’
Though Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show “Come Fly Away” as a whole is new, certain dances have long been a part of Ms. Tharp’s Sinatra repertory.
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‘Boys in the Band’ Influenced Kushner and Other Playwrights
“The Boys in the Band” influenced untold numbers of gay artists who, for the first time, were seeing characters out of the closet and in front of a paying audience.
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John Turturro, in Italy, Breathes Life Into Folk Tales
John Turturro is unleashing his love for Italy, his parents’ homeland, onstage.
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Advertising: Good Housekeeping Puts on a Show to Celebrate Women
The show, to be staged at the New York City Center, reflects efforts by media companies to go beyond traditional realms of the printed page or TV set.
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Arts, Briefly: This Summer at Williamstown
The Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts has announced its 2010 summer season.
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Projections Onstage in Shows Like ‘Sondheim on Sondheim’
Projections are so much a part of going to the theater these days that the Yale School of Drama is going to offer a full-fledged projection design program starting this fall.
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Off Broadway Ensembles Can Be Hits, With Limits
Playwrights Horizons and other nonprofit theaters in New York have been busily mounting ensemble plays with large casts or roles of equal importance.
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Arts: San Francisco State and Other Institutions Struggle for Arts Funds
Even though belt-tightening measures have put tremendous strain on teachers and students, schools are continuing to produce remarkable creative works.
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