Laura Collins-Hughes

“So it is absolutely bizarre that ‘Beaches’ the musical, which opened on Wednesday night at the Majestic Theater, is a spectacularly unaffecting experience.”

“These characters aren’t likable at all.”

“Transferred from London’s West End by way of Cambridge, Mass., this twinkly two-hander delivers lavishly on the promise of a rom-com: laughter, escape and fantasy.”

“Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino'”

“As played by a glorious Laurie Metcalf in Samuel D. Hunter’s keen-eyed, compassionate play ‘Little Bear Ridge Road,’ which opened on Thursday night at the Booth Theater, she is also one of the funniest and most thoroughly human characters seen lately on a New York stage.”

“So while it isn’t a sure thing that Reeves and Winter can rise to the level of Dirden and Thornton, bringing a necessary balance to the production, there certainly is a chance.”

“It is a bouncy, crowd-pleasing comedy about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s ambitions.”

“Suddenly, powerfully, Floyd was all of us, waylaid mid-pursuit of happiness, uncertain how to proceed.”

“In its latest Broadway outing, starring an exuberant Grey Henson in the title role, 'Elf the Musical' has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right.”

“It’s a perfectly winsome scene, and a highlight of this ultimately underwhelming new adaptation.”

“All of which surely helps to explain the unwieldiness of ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ a play that we might have looked back on as an early effort if only Hansberry had lived.”

“They are a gorgeous duo, these friends: bickering lifelines for each other, vulnerable and too proud.”

“The primary reason to see ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ then, is to witness the superb Beale, Godley and Lester in their feats of storytelling — and to conspire with them in imagining the play’s tarnished, if not truly vanished, world.”