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Theater - Page 14

The Best Theater of 2025

The Best Theater of 2025

In one way or another, the shows on this list were high-risk endeavors that gloriously paid off.

by Dan Rubins
December 16, 2025
The Queen of Versailles

‘The Queen of Versailles’ Review: An Unfinished Musical About an Unfinished House

by Dan Rubins
Waiting for Godot

‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Face the Music in Beckett Revival

by Dan Rubins
Art

‘Art’ Review: The Fragile Bonds of Friendship

by Dan Rubins
The Ring Cycle (Part 1 + 2) at the Bushwick Starr

The Ring Cycle (Part 1 + 2) at the Bushwick Starr

by Robert Tumas
October 25, 2010

Wagner knew that the search for a hero who can keep the darkness at bay while protecting us from the forces of evil is something that all people can get behind.

Downtown Block Party: Gatz and The Deep Throat Sex Scandal

Downtown Block Party: Gatz and The Deep Throat Sex Scandal

by Jason Clark
October 11, 2010

How do you want it: long and slow or hard and fast?

British Invasion: Brief Encounter and The Pitmen Painters

British Invasion: Brief Encounter and The Pitmen Painters

by Jason Clark
October 1, 2010

Another season, another round of Brit transfers

Playhouse Fever: Alex Timbers on Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson

Playhouse Fever: Alex Timbers on Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson

by Gerard Raymond
September 30, 2010

When Alex Timbers was 12 years old, he and an elementary school buddy had their own public access cable show in Manhattan.

The Little Foxes at New York Theatre Workshop

The Little Foxes at New York Theatre Workshop

by Jason Clark
September 21, 2010

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of provocateur Ivo van Hove’s slick remounting of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes is that it really isn’t that shocking.

Clowning Like It’s 1933: The New York Clown Theatre Festival

Clowning Like It’s 1933: The New York Clown Theatre Festival

by Lauren Wissot
September 11, 2010

As the economy crumbles all around us, Depression-era nostalgia is in the air.

Charles Busch

Interview with a Drag Artiste: Charles Busch Talks The Divine Sister

by Gerard Raymond
September 9, 2010

Busch discusses playing a mother superior in his new play, now at the Soho Playhouse.

Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party at Theatre Row

Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party at the Acorn Theatre

by Jason Clark
August 11, 2010

The production is far from a party and more akin to a long soiree in which the cool people haven’t arrived yet.

Red

Tony Awards 2010 Winner Predictions

by Jason Clark
June 8, 2010

This has to be the toughest prediction year since Avenue Q shockingly walked away with the Best Musical prize six years ago.

Restoring Beauty: Playwright Claudia Shear Talks Restoration

Restoring Beauty: Playwright Claudia Shear Talks Restoration

by Gerard Raymond
June 1, 2010

Shear sat down with us recently to talk about her new play.

All The Young Dudes: The Burnt Part Boys and Oliver Parker!

All The Young Dudes: The Burnt Part Boys and Oliver Parker!

by Jason Clark
May 25, 2010

If The Burnt Part Boys is good-natured Wonder bread, then Oliver Parker! is burnt toast that’s been peed on.

One Year Revisited: Hair on Broadway

One Year Revisited: Hair on Broadway

by Jason Clark
May 24, 2010

To paraphrase possibly its greatest tune: It’s still got life, brother.

Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play at the Irondale Center

Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play at the Irondale Center

by Jason Clark
May 12, 2010

Faith or no faith, whatever denomination you wish to call yourself, Passion Play more than lives up to its title.

A Few Words in Defense of—and Against—Newsweek‘s Ramin Setoodeh

A Few Words in Defense of—and Against—Newsweek’s Ramin Setoodeh

by Benjamin Horner
May 12, 2010

By now, I’m sure many of us have read about Setoodeh’s infamous Newsweek piece about gay actors.

The Forest at Classic Stage Company

The Forest at Classic Stage Company

by Jason Clark
May 6, 2010

Brian Kulick’s herky-jerky production is never quite sure what to do with the great Dianne Wiest.

Family Week at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

Family Week at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

by Jason Clark
May 4, 2010

Somehow a fully-cast sextet sloppily became a quartet in Beth Henley’s logy, often risible play Family Week.

Enron at the Broadhurst Theatre

Enron at the Broadhurst Theatre

by Lauren Wissot
May 2, 2010

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding this show is why it’s even on Broadway in the first place.

Fences at the Cort Theatre

Review: Fences, Starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, at the Cort Theatre

by Jason Clark
April 30, 2010

Sometimes an actor just has to come home to roost to rediscover just what they were put out there for in the first place.

Creditors at the BAM Harvey Theater

Creditors at the BAM Harvey Theater

by Simon Abrams
April 26, 2010

This adaptation is striking for the way that it both softens the edges of and preserves the problematic acidity of August Strindberg’s play.

Master Class: Sondheim on Sondheim and The Aliens

Master Class: Sondheim on Sondheim and The Aliens

by Jason Clark
April 22, 2010

Signal the thunderclaps: Stephen Sondheim turned 80 this year, and everyone is partyin’ like it’s 1999 for the man.

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