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David Ives' new version of Regnard 1708 French comedy is written in nimbly penned rhyming couplets.

Despite some fine contributions, Martha Clarke's mounting lacks sexual spark and rebellious edge.

The divisive playwright's most accessible piece comes off as a Neil Simon attempt at absurdism.

Encores! serves up Frank Loesser's superb score with a 38 piece orchestra and an excellent cast.

If Kenny Leon would like to keep on mounting productions of Lorraine Hansberry's riveting classic every decade I'd be most happy to go see them all.

Outcast high-schoolers knock off the cool kids in Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe's musical version of the '88 film.

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's ambitious new musical splits a woman's life between marriage and career.

He may have passed away over 50 years ago, but you might say John Van Druten is the hottest playwright in New York right now.

A few days after counter-protesters display compassion for grieving members of the Westboro Baptist Church, Terrence McNally asks us to feel compassion for a grieving anti-gay mother.

The new design is gorgeously moody but uninspired acting and singing voices that do not seem up to their tasks plague the production.

The laughs are plentiful, the songs are bright and jazzy and there's not an actor dressed as an animal or inanimate object in sight .

Nina Arianda is outstanding in David Grimm's drama of a woman surviving post-war Vienna.

Husband and wife performing artists Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz draw parallels between their romance and de Beaumont's fairy tale.

Broadway's newest musical romance is filled with honest sentiment and warmth.

Last night, Robert Askins' Hand to God opened at the MCC Theater. Hand to God stars Steven Boyer who reprises his celebrated, Obie Award-winning performance from the Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) in 2011. Let's see what the critics had to say...

Steven Boyer repeats his Obie-winning performance as a shy Christian teen whose sock puppet is possessed.

Bryan Cranston leads a top-notch ensemble as LBJ politicking the country toward civil rights.

Jim Brochu's new solo piece will warm the heart of anyone who has ever looked out from an audience with awe and wonder.

ALL THE WAY, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, starring BREAKING BAD's Bryan Cranston, opens on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre tonight, March 6, 2014. The play is directed by Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where ALL THE WAY began its theatrical life. Let's see what the critics had to say...

Tarell Alvin McCraney's vibrant and sexy production sets the story in French-colonial Saint-Domingue.