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Murder Ballad
by Thom Geier | May 22, 2013

In an Off Broadway theater refashioned as a downtown dive bar come an alt-rock musical set in a similar hipster-friendly locale

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Showgirls! The Musical!
by Mandi Bierly | May 22, 2013

Naked girls singing! The raunchy cult movie hits the stage as a campy Off Broadway musical

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
by Thom Geier | May 16, 2013

Off Broadway's unlikely new phenomenon is a musical version of Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' as dinner theater

Colin Quinn Unconstitutional
by Ray Rahman | May 16, 2013

'SNL' alum Colin Quinn takes a jaundiced eye at our founding fathers' handiwork

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
by Thom Geier | May 10, 2013

An Off Broadway play about the final days of a megalomaniacal Walt Disney

A Family for All Occasions
by Melissa Rose Bernardo | May 13, 2013

Philip Seymour Hoffman directs a plodding Off Broadway drama about another typical dysfunctional family

Old Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
by Jason Clark | May 06, 2013

Richard Foreman's latest avant garde theater work is more puzzling than provocative

Nikolai and the Others
by Thom Geier | May 06, 2013

In a mostly tedious fact-inspired drama, Balanchine and Stravinksy and other Russian emigre artists collaborate on a famed ballet

I'll Eat You Last
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 24, 2013

The curtain rises on the delicious one-woman show I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers ,…

Pippin
by Thom Geier | Apr 23, 2013

There's a lot of theatrical magic to be found in this joyous three-ring circus of a musical revival

The Trip to Bountiful
by Melissa Rose Bernardo | Apr 23, 2013

The magnificent Cicely Tyson dominates a quietly moving revival of Horton Foote's drama that also marks Cuba Gooding Jr.'s stage debut

The Testament of Mary
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 23, 2013

The great Irish actress Fiona Shaw embodies the mother of Jesus in a provocative new play

Mayday Mayday
by Jason Clark | Apr 22, 2013

Tristan Sturrock, the dashing British actor who stole our hearts in Kneehigh Theatre's magnificent 2009 re-imagining of David…

Here Lies Love
by Kyle Anderson | Apr 23, 2013

A happy-footed worldbeat musical about Imelda Marcos, with tunes by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim

Macbeth
by Thom Geier | Apr 21, 2013

The act of reinterpreting the Shakespearean canon has become as traditional as the plays themselves. But you will…

The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream
by Melissa Maerz | Apr 18, 2013

The '60s rockers deliver a stirring reunion concert -- interrupted by awkward scenes detailing the band's generic backstory

Jekyll & Hyde
by Melissa Rose Bernardo | Apr 18, 2013

Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox star in an overamplified and undercooked revival of Frank Wildhorn's campily cheesy musical

The Assembled Parties
by Tanner Stransky | Apr 17, 2013

Jessica Hecht and Judith Light star in a moving new drama about how knotty family ties can become

Orphans
by Thom Geier | Apr 18, 2013

Alec Baldwin is held hostage by two volatile brothers in a gripping revival of Lyle Kessler's three-man drama

My Name is Asher Lev
by Jason Clark | Apr 10, 2013

In this Off Broadway drama, a young painter grapples with the familiar conflict between art and religion

The Call
by Jason Clark | Apr 15, 2013

Kerry Butler stars in a provocative Off Broadway drama about the complicated issues surrounding adoption

The Big Knife
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 16, 2013

Bobby Cannavale plays a conflicted movie star in a swanky revival of Clifford Odets 1940s Hollywood drama

The Nance
by Melissa Rose Bernardo | Apr 15, 2013

In Douglas Carter Beane's oddball dramedy, Nathan Lane is a campy burlesque performer in 1930s New York

Julius Caesar
by Melissa Rose Bernardo | Apr 15, 2013

The Bard's tragedy is reimagined with a setting in modern-day Africa in a new Brooklyn production from the Royal Shakespeare Company

Motown: The Musical
by Thom Geier | Apr 12, 2013

Despite an amateurish script, this R&B-heavy jukebox musical manages to stay mostly in the groove

Matilda
by Thom Geier | Apr 11, 2013

Roald Dahl was not a pleasant man, but he crafted fiction that has delighted readers both young and…

Kinky Boots
by Thom Geier | Apr 04, 2013

Sometimes audiences just wanna have fun. And you'd be a heel not to have fun at Kinky Boots…

Buyer & Cellar
by Stephan Lee | Apr 08, 2013

In a laugh-packed one-man show, 'Ugly Betty''s Michael Urie plays a struggling actor who takes a job as a clerk in Barbra Streisand's private underground mall