
New York Theatre Reviews
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.

Historical drama becomes lurid soap opera in Luigi Creatore's "speculation" on the brothers Booth. More »
Playwright-director Layon Gray has an interesting subject in the formation of an African-American women's baseball te... More »
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
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
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
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 »

Off-Broadway Reviews
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
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
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
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 »

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

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
"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
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 »

Cabaret & Dance Reviews
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 »

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: 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/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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Industry Grosses

| 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 |
Week ending August 23.






















