New York Theatre Reviews

It Must Be Him

It Must Be Him
Clichés and stale jokes pervade this sitcom of a play from Emmy-winning TV veteran Kenny Solms. Peter Scolari, Alice Playten, and Bob Ari valiantly attempt to add dimension to their cardboard characters.

    An Error of the Moon
    Historical drama becomes lurid soap opera in Luigi Creatore's "speculation" on the brothers Booth. More »

    All American Girls
    Playwright-director Layon Gray has an interesting subject in the formation of an African-American women's baseball te... More »

    Le Rêve des Marionettes (Dream of the Marionettes)
    First things first: The marionettes of Johanna Divine and Christy Leichty's underwhelming burlesque revue aren't actu... More »

    Broadway Reviews

    A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music
    Trevor Nunn's take on the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic gets an infusion of Broadway royalty from Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch. Is it worth a trip back? You bet. More »

    everyday rapture

    Everyday Rapture
    Sherie Rene Scott wraps up the 2009-10 Broadway season and saves Roundabout's schedule with a moving and wry self-examination. More »

    Collected Stories

    Collected Stories
    Despite two relatively recent Off-Broadway productions of the play, Linda Lavin breathes new life into Donald Margulies' two-hander about a veteran writer and her protégé. More »

    Enron

    Enron
    Lucy Prebble's new play is like a big, shiny, beautifully wrapped package that once eagerly ripped open reveals a horde of Styrofoam peanuts through which you search vainly for the anticipated present. More »

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    Off-Broadway Reviews

    Wife to James Whelan

    Wife to James Whelan
    Teresa Deevy's long-lost play is a worthy addition to Ireland's dramatic literature and shows Deevy to have had a singular, perceptive ear for the dialogue of ordinary people. More »

    Power Balladz

    Power Balladz
    For anyone who wants to relive a time when music was loud and the hair was big, "Power Balladz" (which also features a post-show karaoke fest with the band) is the champion. More »

    Trust

    Trust
    Second Stage seems to be out to corner the market on emptiness. Hot on the heels of the vacant but flashy "Bachelorette," we get Paul Weitz's schematic, wafer-thin "Trust." More »

    Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party

    Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
    No matter what the ministrations of this talented company, there was nothing it could do to get this politically naive, toothlessly satirical, tediously melodramatic show going. More »

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    Off-Off Broadway Reviews

    One Thumb Out

    One Thumb Out
    Tom MacLachlan knows stagecraft and has imagination, but he hasn't organized them into a coherent theatrical statement. More »

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    Evan O'Television in Double Negatives
    Every cliché of a Fringe Festival offering is on full display in "Evan O'Television in Double Negatives." Unfunny, boring one-person show? Check. Unappealing characters? Writer-director-performer Evan O'Sullivan gives us three. More »

    Friends Like These

    Friends Like These
    "I like you." "Why?" Not a deathless exchange, yet as rendered with multileveled subtext  in Gregory Crafts' "Friends Like These," it pierces and resonates. More »

    For the Birds

    For the Birds
    Blue Wren Collective, founded by the authors of "For the Birds," aims to develop artistic collaboration between Irish and American artists. Unfortunately, their play's setting in the two countries feels completely random. More »

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    Cabaret & Dance Reviews

    The Beatitudes

    The Beátitudes
    Melanie Cortier's bland balletic choreography of "The Beátitudes," a 35-minute dance play about the Beat movement, bears no resemblance whatsoever to Beat sensibilities. More »

    Monica Bill Barnes

    Kate Weare Company and Monica Bill Barnes & Company
    Choreographers Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes electrified a standing-room-only crowd at the Joyce Theater with their shared evening of two superb contemporary dance works. More »

    Whistling Away the Dark

    Whistling Away the Dark: A Celebration of Julie Andrews
    Soprano Shana Farr shows promise in this boite tribute to the beloved international musical star, though they are as different as chalk and cheese. More »

    Anikai Dance

    Anikai Dance/Wendy Jehlen: Forest
    As long as she is introducing new material, Wendy Jehlen is a captivating choreographer, but when it comes time to develop her thematic vocabulary into compelling choreography, she is at a complete loss. More »

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    Rank Title Gross
    1. WICKED $1,688,034
    2. THE LION KING $1,632,627
    3. THE ADDAMS FAMILY $1,125,749
    4. MARY POPPINS $1,052,470
    5. BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL $1,039,995
    6. JERSEY BOYS $1,020,157
    7. PROMISES, PROMISES $966,150
    8. MAMMA MIA! $886,815
    9. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $857,575
    10. MEMPHIS $854,846

    Week ending August 23.
    Credit: The Broadway League

    Rank Title Gross
    1. EXPENDABLES, THE $16,968,032
    2. VAMPIRES SUCK $12,202,831
    3. EAT PRAY LOVE $12,111,162
    4. LOTTERY TICKET $10,652,297
    5. OTHER GUYS, THE $10,163,337
    6. PIRANHA 3D $10,106,872
    7. SWITCH, THE $8,436,713
    8. NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS $8,407,685
    9. INCEPTION $7,838,179
    10. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD $5,201,970

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