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Terry Teachout's solo play and John Douglas Thompson's completely captivating performance make for compelling tributes to an artistic original.

You never know what might happen when two actors are assigned to kiss each other on stage.

It's all fun and games until your bar pick-up throws up in your mouth.

Steve Rosen and David Rossmer's pop rock musical charmer riffs on Neil Diamond with lots of urban Jewish humor.

David Henry Hwang's Bruce Lee bio-play is dramatically lightweight.

If it's possible to consider a male playwright a leading feminist author, John Van Druten would rank as a likely candidate.

Jason Robert Brown, Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale all score beautifully in a soaring and thoughtful musical romance.

Caryl Churchill's latest plays like two hours worth of sketches from the last ten minutes of SNL.

Director Pam MacKinnon and her sharp ensemble perfectly balance the tragic feelings of the characters with their comic obliviousness to how out of touch they are.

Charles Busch and Julie Halston are a bit like Lucy and Ethel as played by Noel and Gertie.

The hilarious Neil Simon/Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh musical gets a sharp concert revival by going back to the original Broadway script.

Eric Simonson's Yankee drama plays like a theme park attraction.

It's wicked romantic and funny, ayuh.

CSC revives the abstract anti-war farce penned by a 28-year-old making his first dive into Berlin's post-war artistic renaissance.

Thomas Bradshaw is at it again.

Rude Mechs' madcap Brechtian vaudeville counters being charitable with looking out for one's self.

John Patrick Shanley's warm and quirky new romantic comedy features a couple that's imperfect for each other.

Roy Williams' stage adaptation of Allan Sillitoe's short story might be best appreciated by teenage audiences.

Angus Jackson's swift and accessible production is a solid evening of theatrical storytelling,

Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Machinal, starring Rebecca Hall, written by Sophie Treadwell and directed by Lyndsey Turner, opens tonight, January 16, 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. Let's see what the critics had to say...