Critic’s Notebook
Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The Humana Festival of New American Plays presented works whose characters are searching for new experiences.
Rehearse Me a Little, Wherever You Are
By DAVE ITZKOFF
A new production of “Company” has resorted to a grab bag of strategies, shortcuts and cheats to get its far-flung cast of A-list performers quickly up to speed.
Theater Review | 'Marie and Bruce'
There’s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour
By BEN BRANTLEY
“Marie and Bruce,” Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery, has been revived at the Acorn Theater.
Theater Review | 'The Umbrella Plays'
A Long Swim Looking for Laughs
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
“The Umbrella Plays” offers a series of vignettes about relationships.
Need a Broad? Call Turner
By CHARLES McGRATH
Kathleen Turner, 56, returns to Broadway to play a nun and add to a list of tough-purring lionesses.
Theater Review | 'The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G'
Identities as Elements to Play With and Juggle
By JASON ZINOMAN
Qui Nguyen’s new play is an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the “inscrutable Orient.”
Theater Review | 'Three Men on a Horse'
Another Outing for This Gambling Tale? What Are the Odds?
By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Actors Theater Company revives “Three Men on a Horse,” the Depression-era comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott.
Theater Review | 'Tomorrow Morning'
The Night They Called It a Day
By RACHEL SALTZ
“Tomorrow Morning,” a musical by Laurence Mark Wythe, follows two Los Angeles couples on an eventful night before an important morning.
What Befits a Legendary Queen
By SYLVIANE GOLD
A closer look at the costumes Susan Hilferty designed for the character of the Queen of Hearts in the Broadway musical “Wonderland.”
Duke Law Students Give Musical Nod to Nixon
By ROBBIE BROWN
Duke took a step toward embracing its most infamous graduate, Richard M. Nixon, by performing a play.
Theater Listings: April 1 — 7
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A selected guide to theater performances in New York.
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Behind the Scene With Robin Williams
Robin Williams performs an excerpt from Rajiv Joseph's new Broadway play, "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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Recent Reviews
Theater Review | New Jersey
A Farce on the Links, With Hazards in the Clubhouse
By MICHAEL SOMMERS
“The Fox on the Fairway,” by Ken Ludwig, is a farce about country-club life during a golf tournament.
Theater Review | New Jersey
In ‘Candida,’ Tribute to Women’s Strength
By ANITA GATES
In George Bernard Shaw’s domestic comedy, written 15 years after Ibsen’s feminist shocker “A Doll’s House,” love, practicality and social equality in Victorian times are explored.
Theater Review | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo'
Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is a powerful new drama by Rajiv Joseph, in which Robin Williams embodies the creature who becomes the play’s questioning conscience.
Theater Review | 'The Other Place'
Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A sense of disorientation unites audience and protagonist in “The Other Place.”
Theater Review | 'Cool Blues'
A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death
By DANIEL M. GOLD
“Cool Blues” is based on the last days of the jazz great Charlie Parker at the Fifth Avenue home of a faithful supporter and friend.
Theater Review | 'Wittenberg'
Dueling Mentors Bedevil a Dithering Young Dane
By ERIC GRODE
In “Wittenberg,” Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther have fun batting about Hamlet, their student.
Theater Review | 'Sex on Sunday'
Raging Domesticity Erupts From a Dominatrix Encounter
By RACHEL SALTZ
An explicit opening scene in “Sex on Sunday” promises a trip to the dark side of sexuality. But Chisa Hutchinson, the writer, can’t decide whether she wants to titillate or educate.
Theater Review | 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'
Wizard of Corporate Climbing
By BEN BRANTLEY
You root for Daniel Radcliffe, who stars in the revival of Frank Loesser’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” though Rob Ashford’s production is charm free.
Video: Life and LoesserNews & Features
In a Broadway Role, Many Returns
By FELICIA R. LEE
Tate Donovan’s turn in “Good People” has brought him back to New York and to his Irish-American roots.
Trying to Relish the Big Time, Even When It Brings a Cringe
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Celebrating a Broadway musical as a sign that their faith has finally made the big time, Mormons are traveling from across the nation to see “The Book of Mormon.”
ArtsBeat Blog
Theater Talkback: Too Much Information?
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
How much is too much to reveal in a review?
Her Sequins, Plumes and Foghorn Voice
By BEN BRANTLEY
Harvey Fierstein joins the cast of “La Cage aux Folles” at the Longacre Theater.
Opening Soon
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
- Anything Goes (April 7)
- Born Bad (April 7)
- David E. Talbert Presents: What My Husband Doesn't Know (April 7)
- Boom Town (April 8)
- Potato Needs a Bath (April 8)
- Catch Me If You Can (April 10)
- The ************ With the Hat (April 11)
- War Horse (April 14)
- Madagascar LIVE! (April 15)
Top Grossing Broadway Shows
Week Ending April 3
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Wicked, $1,623,653
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The Lion King, $1,580,848
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, $1,387,356
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Jersey Boys, $992,577
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, $972,524
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical, $926,273
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Billy Elliot, $896,052
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The Book of Mormon, $891,410
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The Phantom of the Opera, $871,091
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Mary Poppins, $867,638
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