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Dry-eyed if not quite clear-eyed, David Folwell’s new play leaves barely a bruise, let alone a buzz, in its wake.

Located on a stretch where parking lots are the only businesses open after dark, 37 Arts has an address that one producer joked was "just east of dire."

Weddings are touching and funny. They’re also clichéd, slightly tacky and embarrassing. This musical aims at the former qualities and partakes of all of the latter.

The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.

The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.

Don’t expect balloons, a chorus of singers or an ice cream cake in “The Birthday Party.”

An actress-director turned playwright uses the 1960’s as inspiration in "Second Line."

If you feel that to be young, restless and on a dark road to nowhere is no laughing matter, you can always visit the dead-end kids in this black-hole revival.

Traditional Broadway overtures — several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up — are disappearing.

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Jay Johnson's genial if flimsy tale of a starry-eyed kid making it as a ventriloquist feels oddly generic.

Why, exactly, would Tony Kushner, who is often described as shy, and whose work often entails sitting alone in a room, agree to be the central figure in a documentary?

The streets of the West Village provide a lovely background for this warmhearted and well-researched tribute to the birth of Off Off Broadway.

It's probably safe to say that few slam poetry champions have both an honors degree from Yale and an opera scholarship on their résumés. But Daniel Beaty has a gift for defying convention.

Paul Newman hopes that his new restaurant will do for the Westport Country Playhouse what all that salsa and salad dressing did for his charities.

The developer of a proposed 42-story condominium tower in the theater district has agreed to set aside part of one floor as office space for nonprofit theater companies to comply with an eight-year-old zoning rule.

Young Jean Lee's play about minority rage and a secret Korean plot to rule the world is brilliantly directed and hysterically funny.

This is a thoroughly engrossing, fully realized drama brought to life by an ensemble of actors who never miss a beat.

A feat of mental agility involving a chess board isn’t the only overlap between two major magic shows.

This stiffly written monologue about the final hours of Salvador Allende doesn't humanize its subject any more than a documentary from the History Channel would.