Critics At Large

Tony Yazbeck and Ben Jacoby in City of Angels . (Photo: Nile Scott Studios.) The 1989 City of Angels is one of the wittiest and most origin...

Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner in Les Liaisons Dangereuses . (Photo: Sarah Lee.) It’s not likely that many people read Choderlos de Laclos...

The company of The Balusters . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel.) David Lindsay-Abaire’s The Balusters , which enjoyed a twelve-week limited run as par...

The company of Goodspeed's Crazy for You . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) Crazy for You is the second of three Broadway musicals – so far –...

Laurie Metcalf, a carton of organic milk, and Nathan Lane in Death of a Salesman . (Photo: Emilio Madrid.) When I heard director Joe Mantell...

Beth Leavel as Dolly Levi and company in Hello Dolly! (Photo: Nile Scott Studios.) Six decades on, Hello, Dolly! is seen as a prime represe...

Beth Leavel and Marissa Jaret Winokur in When Playwrights Kill . (Photo: Jim Sabitus.) When Playwrights Kill is a comedy à clef whose code...

From Left: Jordan Scowen, Olivia Reis, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, James Wilbraham, Anne Reid and Bhasker Patel in Oedipus. (Photo: J. Cer...

Sarah Bockel and Nick Duckart in Fun Home . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) It’s not the Huntington Theatre Company’s fault that the opening nigh...

Ephraim Birney and Daniel Neale in Rope . (Photo: Hartford Stage.) The English playwright Patrick Hamilton – best known for Angel Street , t...

The company of Forgiveness . (Photo: David House.) Stratford’s production of Forgiveness (at the Tom Patterson Theatre), Hiro Kanagawa’s ad...

Mary Antonini as Reno Sweeney and the cast of Anything Goes . (Photo: David Cooper.) This article includes reviews of musicals at the Shaw F...

Gabriella Sundar Singh as Barbara Undershaft in the Shaw Festival's current production of Major Barbara . (Photo: David Cooper.) Is Majo...

From left: André Sills as Polixenes, Sara Topham as Hermione, and Graham Abbey as Leontes with members of the company of  The Winter's T...

David Hyde Pierce and the cast of Pirates! The Penzance Musical . (Photo: Joan Marcus.) At sixty-six, David Hyde Pierce is so slender and li...

Ryan Mac and the company of All Shook Up . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) The current production of All Shook Up , Joe DiPietro’s parodic jukebo...

Dakin Matthews as Pellinore and Ken Wulf Clark as King Arthur in Camelot . (Photo: Daniel Rader.) Over the years I’ve grown wary of revivals...

This round-up includes reviews of Adolescence , Good Night, and Good Luck and Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning , as well as a tribu...

Andrew Durand (left) and Company in Dead Outlaw . (Photo: Matthew Murphy.) The general complaint about Broadway musicals in the twenty-first...

Emily Skinner in The Huntington Theatre's The Light in the Piazza . (Photo: Julieta Cervantes.) The new Huntington Theatre mounting of T...