Toby Zinman

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Relatively speaking, Relatively Speaking is a bust.”

“If you're not sold on the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies by the time Bernadette Peters walks onto a lonely, red-lit stage on Broadway and gives desperate life to the torch song 'Losing My Mind' - if that remarkable rendition doesn't seal the deal, well, there's nothing else to be done.”