Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’
What a peculiar piece of confectionary is the new musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne...
Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’
A lot of merchandise is for sale in the lobby of the Shubert Theatre, where Bette Midler stars in the highly anticipated, or, really, let’s make...
Review: ‘The Little Foxes’
It doesn’t take a refined intellect to separate the bad characters from the good in Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes.” The bad tend to be...
Review: ‘Indecent’
It is astonishing that the most recent opening at the Cort Theatre, “Indecent,” marks the Broadway debut of its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Paula Vogel. A...
Review: ‘Groundhog Day’
The producers and creators of “Groundhog Day” must be uncomfortably aware by now that, despite the fantasy at the center of their show, every...
Review: ‘Oslo’
Leaving Lincoln Center on a beautiful spring Sunday afternoon after a performance of “Oslo,” I was surprisingly engulfed by an uneasy disquiet. My reaction,...
Review: ‘War Paint’
You don’t have to go in search of a magnifying glass to discern the active ingredients in the new musical “War Paint,” at the...
Review: ‘Present Laughter’
An unruly cast of stylish denizens has arrived at the St. James Theatre just in time to relieve the torpor of all of us...
Review: ‘Amélie’
As the title character in the musical “Amélie,” a lonely young woman spreading warmth and doing good deeds even as she remains cocooned in...
Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
“Oh, Inspector! I can’t take it anymore!” wails one of the hapless characters, an amateur performer enacting a shambles of a mystery drama, in...