David Kaufman

“Under the careful guidance of director Arbus, that awkwardness is brought to real life by McDonald as Frankie and Shannon as Johnny.”

“Ink is too swift and too slick for its own good–or should I say, for our good?”

“In the final analysis, Burn This does seem to disintegrate, with little left to ponder.”

“Despite any carping about Will Chase’s Fred, this is a Kiss Me, Kate to be seen and savored.”

“But the story, if it can even be called that, keeps spinning out of control and careening in different directions: it never adds up to a play that one can follow or arrives at a particular destination.”

“The Prom is giving Broadway something it’s been lacking for years, which is a high-spirited, old-fashioned musical comedy.”

“There is nothing inventive or even artful about her performance: May simply is Gladys and Gladys is May, tracing her deterioration into senility with a remarkable realism.”

“David Rockwell’s extravagant set designs are never less than dazzling.”

“Straight White Men is the first play by an Asian American woman to arrive on Broadway, and it's doing so in a smart production with a talented creative team and cast.”

“To sum up, Sher’s surefire hand with musicals makes this a My Fair Lady for the ages, just as it deserves to be.”

“This reviewer considers it one of Shaw’s only plays that has genuine characters instead of just ideas being bandied about on a stage full of actors.”

“In 1999, ‘Time’ magazine declared it the best musical of the 20th century. And now, ‘Carousel’ is back on Broadway, in a revival directed by Jack O'Brien with an emphasis on where the emphasis should be: on the songs and the singing; for whether you agree with Rodgers and ‘Time’--or not (some might put ‘South Pacific’ or even ‘The King and I’ a...”

“It’s a tour-de-force concept that pays off, given Albee’s bringing it together, as it were.”

“It's been directed by wunderkind Marianne Elliott, who also directed the other recent phenomenal British imports, War Horse and Incident of the Dog in the Night. And with her customarily stunning, visual effects, it continues to create a universe of its own, that tells its story with conviction and truth.”

“It was also while John was growing up that Arthur Lithgow gathered his children and read stories to them from a large book: Tellers of Tales, which contains 100 Classic Short Stories (as selected by W. Somerset Maugham), including the two that serve as the centerpiece of this particular play.”

“And then there’s Martin’s hilarious dialogue, which early on has Norm asking his wife about that ‘book title’ that’s on the ‘tip of my tongue’: something ‘like death to the cuckoo.’”

“As written by Akhtar, Junk is a mess and a shambles–as confusing as the recent history it means to recall.”

“It almost makes you forget how disappointing this current revival of an otherwise moving play is.”

“Even Christian Borle seems to melt into the cardboard scenery.”

“In the end, and basically throughout, The Play that Goes Wrong has gone very right, indeed.”

“From the dead-on realism of a neighborhood bar, designed to perfection by John Lee Beatty, to the heightened and naturalistic staging of director Kate Whoriskey, everything about Sweat is geared to pull you in to its grip with a vise-like strength, and then not let go.”