Looped
Playwright Matthew Lombardo stretches a showbiz anecdote into a two-hour play. Fortunately, Valerie Harper delivers a tour de force performance and almost makes up for the show's thinness. More »

Next Fall
Geoffrey Nauffts' tender and compassionate play about a gay couple in conflict over religion loses intimacy in its Broadway transfer but none of its power to move. More »

A Behanding in Spokane
Christopher Walken gives a bizarre, kooky, and captivating star turn in Martin McDonagh's blood-soaked black comedy. But don't look for anything deeper than a few gory laughs. More »

The Miracle Worker
The story of teacher Annie Sullivan unlocking the deaf-and-blind young Helen Keller from a world of darkness carries an elemental power that survives even director Kate Whoriskey's troubled staging. More »

Sin
This play based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Unseen" is a spooky adult fable, yet despite strong performances and vivid design, it drags as much as it provokes. More »

Happy in the Poorhouse
Derek Ahonen's new play shifts between camp and contemplation in an uneven take on the dream deferred. More »

Ladies in Retirement
It's probably wiser to retire these “Ladies,” but though this once-successful play is now long, obvious, and clunky, the production shines. More »

The Rink (in Concert)
Unless you simply must see every Broadway musical ever produced or want to see a talented cast give their all for not much, let Kander and Ebb be remembered for "Cabaret," "Chicago," "Zorba"—anything but this. More »

El beso del adiós (Kiss Bessemer Goodbye)
This by-the-books family drama has some laughs but not much else. More »

Living in a Musical
This benighted production proves to be a work of gob-smacking incompetence. More »

Neighbors
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has arrived with a big old bang with “Neighbors,” a grandly theatrical, highly subversive, and immensely intelligent play that takes a long hard look at our supposedly post-racial society. More »

Remembering Mr. Maugham
Those looking for literary insights or dramatic tension would do better to read a Somerset Maugham novel or watch a Garson Kanin movie. More »

Lyon Opera Ballet
Despite its name, France's Lyon Opera Ballet is proffering a full evening of choreography that abounds in modern-dance sensibilities, with nary a pointe shoe in sight. More »

Special Kaye: A Tribute to the Incomparable Kaye Ballard
Gretchen Reinhagen's one-woman salute to the great Kaye Ballard won a 2010 Nightlife Award and has been installed in an open-ended one-performance-per-month run at the Metropolitan Room. More »

John Standing: Performing Noël Coward
John Standing may be appearing in cabaret, but that hasn't stopped him from delivering a master class in acting in this program of Noël Coward songs at Café Carlyle. More »

Betty Buckley: For the Love of Broadway
The Tony-winning actor-singer does Broadway her way in a dazzling kaleidoscope of emotions and vocal impressions. More »