Gotham Playgoer

  A   By coincidence, the two finest musicals in New York right now are both set in the underbelly of 19 th -century London. My previous rev...

B+ Kelli O’Hara ( The King and I, South Pacific ) reaffirms her status as the reigning queen of the American musical with her wonderful...

B- This 2015 play by Tom Stoppard ( The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Travesties ), his first in nine years, has finally reached New York in ...

D Since I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Bean’s hilarious One Man, Two Guvnors , I was looking forward to this play at Manhattan Theatre C...

B+ Second Stage has acquired and renovated the Helen Hayes Theater, now called just The Hayes Theater, as a Broadway home for plays by l...

B+ I will admit that I was skeptical when I heard that Michael Moore was coming to Broadway. Although I admire his films and agree with...

If exuberance were all it took to make a Broadway musical a winner, this jukebox bio-musical about Gloria and Emilio Estefan and the Miami S...

When Lincoln Center Theater announced that it was reviving William Finn’s Tony-awarded musical (best book and best score), I wasn’t sure I w...

How lucky we are to have first-rate revivals of not one but two Bock and Harnick masterpieces on Broadway this season — 1964’s Fiddler on th...

Twenty years after its debut at Manhattan Theatre Club, A.R. Gurney’s charming but inconsequential play has finally made it to Broadway. It ...

Roundabout Theatre is presenting the first Broadway revival of this 1978 show with music by Cy Coleman and book and lyrics by Betty Comden a...

I didn’t see this cult musical during its brief Broadway run in 1997, so I can’t comment on whether this new version is an improvement over ...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) The industrial decline of Britain has been a promising topic for movies that were th...

(To see the complete review, please click on the title.) I should have learned by now that I rarely respond well to theatrical whimsy. Only ...