Look Back in Anger
John Osborne's 1956 play, with its famous angry-young-man protagonist, is unquestionably a landmark work, having upended the dominance of genteel English drawing-room drama. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a great one. More »

Wit
Cynthia Nixon successfully challenges the memory of Kathleen Chalfant's original cast performance in a sterling revival of Margaret Edson's unflinching drama about a frosty academic facing terminal cancer. More »

The Road to Mecca
Despite sterling performances from Carla Gugino, Jim Dale, and the luminous Rosemary Harris, Athol Fugard's 1984 drama has trouble punching its way across the footlights in the too-large American Airlines Theatre. More »

Porgy and Bess
This romanticized, politically correct revision of George Gershwin's landmark opera attempts to turn it into a Broadway musical but only succeeds in significantly cheapening it. More »

Lysistrata Jones
This nifty little musical update of Aristophanes' classic comedy makes the leap from off Broadway to on without missing a funky step. It's a sassy, sexy, funny treat. More »

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Director Michael Mayer's reconception of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's problematic 1965 musical comedy is a depressing misfire, starring a distinctly ill-at-ease Harry Connick Jr. More »

Stick Fly
Lydia R. Diamond's "comedy of manners" is not a good play, but it is an entertaining one, an exuberant work that will likely prove an audience pleaser. More »

Bonnie & Clyde
Whatever made Bonnie and Clyde special is missing from this sentimental musical, as are sufficient character development, adequate dramatic thrust, and any kind of subtext. More »

An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
LuPone and Patinkin are two unique talents, and when they combine in this powerhouse concert, it's theatrical magic. Excerpts from two Rodgers and Hammerstein classics are particularly exciting. More »

Seminar
The writer's hand is too obvious in Theresa Rebeck's play about writers, but Alan Rickman's stingingly understated performance almost makes up for the play's shortcomings. More »

Private Lives
Director Richard Eyre's insistence on naturalistic acting rooted in emotional truth pretty much does in the current Broadway production of Noël Coward's archly delirious comedy. More »

Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Is there anyone else in show business today who can levitate an audience the way Hugh Jackman is doing right now in his not-exactly-one-man musical show at the Broadhurst Theatre? More »

Venus in Fur
Nina Arianda reignites her blazing performance from the original Off-Broadway production of this kinky two-hander in the new Main Stem version, shooting sparks and burning brightly. More »

Godspell
Director Daniel Goldstein doesn't trust the innocent charm of John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz's 1971 hit and relies on too many gimmicks and topical references. More »

Other Desert Cities
With Rachel Griffiths and Judith Light stepping seamlessly into the tight five-person ensemble, Jon Robin Baitz's compelling family drama remains both grandly entertaining and deeply perceptive. More »

Chinglish
David Henry Hwang's latest play is a smart and uproarious comedy examining the difficulties in bridging the different cultures of contemporary China and America. More »

Relatively Speaking
Woody Allen is as funny as ever, contributing a riotous farce that's equal parts Marx Brothers and Freud, but Ethan Coen and Elaine May get mixed results in this program of three one-acts. More »

The Mountaintop
Katori Hall's two-character fantasy on Martin Luther King Jr. fails to delve into the complexities of American race relations and features an over-the-top performance by Angela Bassett.  More »

Man and Boy
This revival of a lesser-known Terence Rattigan melodrama about an international tycoon has an uneven balance sheet, but Frank Langella's performance is one of its stronger assets. More »

Follies
Director Eric Schaeffer deserves credit for working hard to address the numerous problems with his Kennedy Center production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's towering musical classic, but all is still not well. More »

Hair
The touring company of the hit 2009 revival makes an electrifying summer stop on Broadway, with the largely new cast retaining the intensity and spontaneity of its predecessor. More »

Master Class
A hit in Washington, D.C.'s 2010 Terrence McNally festival, this production arrives on Broadway in new and improved shape, with Tyne Daly delivering stage magic as opera diva Maria Callas. More »

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
This once-troubled musical now soars, its tangled plot threads having been unraveled and rewoven into a web of wonder, making for a fun family show. More »

The People in the Picture
Book writer and lyricist Iris Rainer Dart tries too hard for our tears and laughter in this melodramatic musical about a former Yiddish theater star. More »

The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer's towering American tragedy is getting a letter-perfect production from directors Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe. If you see only one play this year, make it "The Normal Heart." More »