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 »

Chekhovek
This dramatization of nine short stories by Anton Chekhov has fluid staging, aptly defined performances, handsome period costumes, and evocative music, but soul is in short supply. More »

Mariela en el Desierto (Mariela in the Desert)
Zulema Clares' masterful portrayal of a woman who puts her family ahead of her art breathes life into Karen Zacarías' moving but predictable play about painters living in a Mexican desert. More »

Ionescopade
This revival of a short-lived 1974 revue derived from the absurdist oeuvre of Eugene Ionesco provides a few giggles but lacks the danger of the author's best works. More »

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 »

Holy Child
Joe Lauinger's perfectly fine realistic one-act play is undercut by tacking on a slapdash absurdist second act, which seems as if it was written by a different playwright. More »

Professor Bernhardi
This production of a rarely presented Arthur Schnitzler play is dogged by an unwieldy translation and a large, uneven cast but features a title performance of genuine distinction. More »

Inadmissible
A spoof of the shady side of college admissions, D.B. Gilles' new play offers moments of fun that unfortunately often stretch into periods of tedium. More »

Botanica
This large, immersive multimedia production ruminates on the consciousness of plants by way of a magnificent set design, superb scenes of simultaneous action, and psychedelic effects. More »

New York City Ballet: All Wheeldon
A hallmark event, this performance of three ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, including the premiere of the luscious "Les Carillons," marks the company's first-ever all-Wheeldon program. More »

Petula Clark
The celebrated English pop singer and actor is making her first NYC nightclub appearance since 1970. Still in superb physical and vocal shape, she delivers an unmissable evening of great singing. More »

David Dorfman Dance: Prophets of Funk
Set to Sly & the Family Stone recordings, this work pays tribute to the music and contains only hints of the political choreography for which David Dorfman is best known. More »

Streb: Kiss the Air!
An undeniably unique display of physical daring, this show presents extreme athletic feats involving bungee cords, zip lines, springboards, and a rotating ladder yet is both exhilarating and maddeningly boring. More »