As the first half of the U.K. National Theatre’s new production of Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner’s two-part theatrical epic, draws to a close, Andrew Garfield’s AIDS patient Prior Walter has a fever dream in which an angel comes to him w…
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A Queer Conman Disrupts Social Boundaries in Tame Revival of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ – REVIEW
By the time a naked hustler tumbles onto the stage of the Barrymore Theatre, where a stylish but tame revival of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation opened last night, the man who snuck him into a couple’s posh Manhattan apartment ought to seem li…
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‘Anastasia’ the Musical Might Just Make a Princess Out of You Yet: REVIEW
Who doesn’t want to discover they’re secretly a princess and lead that glamorous life? (If anyone tries to deny this flat-out, I’m sorry but they’re lying.) Such is the cloying lure of Anastasia, a new musical that opened on Broadway last night, base…
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Broadway’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Musical Is Safe for Diabetics: REVIEW
To get to dessert, by now most of us have come to accept we have to eat our vegetables first. But the joy of a candy store (or factory, even) is surely skipping right to the good stuff. Not so with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a relatively low-…
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Bette Midler Is Back on Broadway in ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and You Probably Can’t Handle It: REVIEW
Who would have thought that Bette Midler dressed to the nines gnawing every last morsel off a giant turkey leg would be the most riotous two minutes on Broadway this year? Chances are if you manage to snag a seat to the hot-ticket revival of Hello, D…
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Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney Tear It Up in Handsome Revival of ‘The Little Foxes’: REVIEW
As you watch Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney tackle the vastly different women at the center of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, your mind may begin to play tricks. It’s a testament to the stars’ immense versatility that audiences are sure to wonde…
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A Kiss Between Women Ignites Scandal in Stunning New Play ‘Indecent’: REVIEW
Some works of art grow even more urgent as contexts shift around them. Indecent, a thrilling and poignant new play that opened at the Cort Theatre last night, may have been 20 years in the making, but its story of scandal and struggle could hardly be…
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Harvey Fierstein Imparts Bittersweet Gay History in ‘Gently Down the Stream’ – REVIEW
Before Twitter hashtags and YouTube confessionals, gay men passed down their oral histories face-to-face (or in more…intimate situations). Maybe you learned about Stonewall or heard firsthand of personal losses to AIDS from a lover or mentor; m…
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Patti Lupone and Christine Ebersole Go Head-to-Head in ‘War Paint’ Musical on Broadway: REVIEW
Makeup means many things to many women (and a little something extra to drag queens). But to Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein, night creams, lipsticks, and perfumes were the building blocks of empire. War Paint, a new musical about their famed r…
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Divine British Comedies Deliver Escape on Broadway in ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ and ‘Present Laughter’: REVIEW
New York welcomed two crowd-pleasing British comedies about the art of theatre this week, each a prime example of where the English truly excel on stage — buttoning up with noses held high, and coming completely undone. Though “art” may be a strong w…
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