The Philadelphia Inquirer

“The production's star, Bobby Cannavale, dressed in tennis whites or a tuxedo, is not only miscast, but his current hot-stuff career gives the lie to the play's point.”

“This delightful musical comedy based on the beloved movie, manages to make the story of a man dressing up as a woman in order to get a job not only politically viable but wise.”

“This long, talky drama — juiced up with fancy lighting (Neil Austin) and startling moments of choreography (Lynne Page) — begins with the five W’s of journalism, basic to getting all the facts of a story: Who, What, When, Where and Why.”

“What also ensues is the madness that takes place on stage.”

“Check both boxes for Choir Boy.”

“A Mockingbird is a great American story, and this production at the Shubert Theater in Manhattan is a great work of American theater.”

“Basic to M. Butterfly is the duality basic to all theater — people pretending to be other people — a pleasure largely lost in the surprisingly dull revival.”

“This sleek and stylish British cast deepens the mysteries without ever solving them.”

“The score built around the title song is so functional you wonder if composer Smith was holding back to avoid detracting from its grand, climactic arrival.”

“And not only because it's deliberately ambiguous but also because it's great theater: great writing, great acting, great production.”

“It's a show so smart, so daring, so substantial that it manages to be wildly entertaining about fascism and anti-Semitism.”

“Realistic" is the tantalizing word in the title: Eno seems to be commenting on his flat, hyper-real style, suggesting that most of life is not interesting or even rational, and that rarely does anyone speak sensibly, much less in heightened language.”

“In other words, ‘Rocky’ is indeed a knockout.”

“He carries the show effortlessly, boxes like a champ, and sings just as heroically.”

“The noirish dialogue is based on unrelenting repetitions and the didactic clichés of the era.”

“In the new musical Chaplin, which is every bit as entertaining as Charlie Chaplin himself”

“It's good and often silly fun, greatly enriched by Parson's performance.”

“If the show offers any real revelation, it's that the playwriting does, too.”

“Straightforward is the way ‘The Columnist’ goes, in Sullivan’s sure-footed direction, Auburn’s smooth narrative arc, and a sterling performance by John Lithgow, who makes a wonderfully nuanced Joseph Alsop.”

“In that case, I'll say, it's theater that really works.”

“Every detail in ‘Nice Work If You It’ is finely tuned and beautifully turned out.”

“And there’s enough funny lashing to leave an audience happily smarting.”

“‘Clybourne Park’ is the fiercest, frankest, funniest discussion of race I have seen on a stage.”

“Whatever it is, I dare you to see it and not laugh out loud, a lot.”

“Adults will enjoy its complex theatricality... Kids will follow it for its bizarre and hammy characters and its constant sense of adventure.”

“Somewhere over the rainbow, Judy Garland never spotted her pot of gold. But a British actress named Tracie Bennett found hers - in the person of Judy. She is sensational in the erratic Broadway show End of the Rainbow, about Garland's last attempt at a comeback, which opened Monday night.”

“This big-star cast worth a wide shelf of past Tony and Emmy Awards deserves a worthwhile play - and they have one.”

“Newsies, which opened Thursday night on Broadway, is great fun, a rock-'em sock-'em American musical with all the trimmings, and an electrifying display that says, yes, formulas make sense when real artists make them work.”

“Not a bad suggestion for the audience, either.”

“Miller gives Death of a Salesman a muscular narrative arc, and this revival provides the intensity to flex it and strike.”

“For Nixon's part, she doesn't perform as much as live the character; you get the feeling they've imported her from a real hospital ward, where she has walked and lived the talk.”

“The delight in this production is that it seems to move along swiftly as something both new and old - taken on its own terms, as fresh as it is genuine.”

“Well, you get the picture, even if audiences may find it spotty.”

“Bonnie & Clyde is entangled in its own musical format, watering down the storytelling and, with it, the tension.”

“Fiery, intense and so sexy you could sweat, the production of David Ives' new Venus in Fur, a sensation when it ran Off-Broadway last year, opened in a remounted production Tuesday on Broadway.”

“I can argue over the potential of Godspell to be a piece of compelling theater, in any setting. But I can't take issue with this particular staging, so richly realized.”

“Jon Robin Baitz has given them a terrific, insightful and often funny play, and they know just what to do with it.”

“Relatively speaking, Relatively Speaking is a bust.”

“It's all good fun and, in the end, not bad theology either.”

“Broadway's winning new Catch Me if You Can gives you lots of reasons to love the musical, fashioned from Stephen Spielberg's 2002 film.”

“Ashford's meticulous production bulges with talent.”

“In that, The Book of Mormon is the ultimate feel-good musical, and Broadway's genuine paradox.”

“Leguizamo has an easy way with getting you involved in his life.”

“Spring Awakening — the breathtaking discussion of what it means to grow up — will become both a high mark of the season and a landmark musical.”