Lincoln Center Theater has revived Aaron Sorkin’s powerful military courtroom drama A Few Good Men. Now in performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the play brings to the Broadway stage a story about military loyalty, institutional accountability, and the limits of following orders. Led by Tom Blyth as Lt. J.G. Daniel A. Kaffee, Krysta Rodriguez…
Everything is over-the-top in the Roundabout’s daft, delightful new version of The Imaginary Invalid, now playing at the Todd Haimes Theatre. It’s a pleasure to experience the cure it offers to our ailing souls in these turbulent, troubled times. The irrepressible Bill Irwin has seized Moliere’s 1673 play and adapted it into a madcap mishmash…
Known to fans everywhere as a stand-up comic, an acclaimed tv, film, and stage star, and nine-time host of the Oscars and three-time host of the Grammys, Emmy and Tony winner Billy Crystal is now back on Broadway. His latest award-worthy work, 860, plays an extended engagement at the Imperial Theatre. Brilliantly written and performed,…
Manhattan Theatre Club has burst onto the stage in this new season with a hyper-energetic, entertaining play, inspired by a true story with a warning that needs to be heeded. School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play is called a comedy, but its implications are far from humorous. It dramatizes a malaise familiar to…
With the opening of Paranormal Activity, horror is alive and well on Broadway, which is saying something, considering the genre usually has a pretty high mortality rate. After its highly praised runs in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Toronto, Paranormal Activity is attempting to bring its beloved movie franchise to the Great White Way with…
On Broadway, where celebrity casting is often used to sell a show, Celebrity Autobiography turns the concept inside out. This long-running comedy sensation invites a rotating roster of stars from stage, screen, sports, and politics to perform selections from other celebrities’ unintentionally hilarious memoirs, creating an evening where every performance—and every laugh—is a surprise. Inspired…
Superb performances; slice of life storytelling; a bit of something extra: all this and more greet you at the Barrymore Theatre, where August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is getting a handsome revival. Part of the Century Cycle of 10 plays Wilson wrote about the Black experience in America, Joe Turner takes place in…
I saw the title The Balusters and thought OK, this will be about Mr. and Mrs. Baluster. Wrong! Turns out a baluster is “any of the small posts that support the upper rail of a railing, as on a staircase,” as Webster has it. They’re of concern to architectural preservationists and hardly anybody else, and…
The tradition dates back at least to Oh, Boy! in 1917, and though it’s since fallen out of favor, it held sway for decades: the notion that an unlikely character getting inebriated was automatically hilarious. Comic drunk scenes were a staple of pre-Code movie comedies, and they populated plenty of plays, too. Fallen Angels, Noel…
Love. Intelligence. Genius, even. Betrayal. Sacrifice. The revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Proof, now at the Booth, has all this and more: great structure, superb writing, knockout performances. Proof centers around Catherine (Ayo Edebiri), a slouchy, visibly depressed 25-year-old college dropout, the daughter of Robert, (Don Cheadle) who in his younger days was…