Gotham Playgoer

A-  I was going to skip seeing this co-production of New York Theatre Workshop and Tectonic Theater Project, because its focus is a peek at ...

A- It has taken almost 40 years for Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 drama about the corrosiveness of racism to reach Broadwa...

A- Baz Lurhrmann’s 2001 cult film musical has been adapted for Broadway with a book by John Logan ( Red ) and a jukebox score curated, o...

C- Playwright Jesse Eisenberg ( The Revisionist, The Spoils ) does not seem to have had a clear goal in mind for this disappointing work....

C It took me only a few minutes to realize that this was not a play that I could feel emotionally invested in. While I have very much en...

B+ In view of the success of their production of Into the Woods a few years ago, it is not surprising that Roundabout has again turned...

B- Lest we take unwarranted comfort in the belief that events like the one underlying this harrowing drama are safely in the past, play...

B This new play by Sharr White ( The Other Place ), now at The New Group, offers a wonderful vehicle for Edie Falco’s return to the New ...

D+ It isn’t often that a musical with an original book makes it to Broadway these days, so I decided to buy a deeply discounted ticket ...

C+ The years have not been kind to Mark Medoff’s drama about deafness. Since it arrived on Broadway in 1980, there have been better play...

I With a Tony-awarded playwright, a stellar cast and an important topic, how could The New Group’s production of David Rabe’s play abou...

B- It is easier for me to understand why it took 15 years for a fully staged production of this controversial Olivier-winning musical t...

C Greg Pierce’s ( Slowgirl, Kid Victory ) new work, commissioned by Second Stage Theater, could have used a few more workshops before it...

B- Uma Thurman makes her Broadway debut in the lead role of Chloe in Beau Willimon’s ( Farragut North, “House of Cards” ) political dra...

D+ The final play in MCC’s season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre marks the debut of Matthew Perry (TV’s Friends ) both as playwright and as N...

B+ While Arthur Miller’s 1968 play is not generally considered among his best, this is its fourth Broadway revival and the second by Roundab...

B It has been far too long since we have had a play by Martin Sherman (Bent, When She Danced) on a New York stage. Thanks to the Public Thea...

B If the goal of Steven Levenson ( The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin , book for Dear Evan Hansen ) was to write a play that would ...

D+ It sounded so promising: a New York premiere of a work by the provocative and often amusing Wallace Shawn with a cast that includes Matth...

It has been 50 years since this show arrived on Broadway with a formidable array of talent behind it: music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy...