Broadway Review

Entertaining ‘Ann’ Brings Holland Taylor Back to Broadway After 30 Years

Author-actor Holland Taylor has found the role of her career in “Ann,” a solo show about former Texas governor Ann Richards, on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

‘I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers’ Barely Scratches the Surface

In John Logan’s solo show “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers,” Bette Midler is disappointingly content to reprise her Divine Miss M persona, and Mengers goes missing.

Even in an Uncertain Production, Mamet’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Has Power

In Daniel Sullivan’s unevenly directed revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize–winning “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Al Pacino entertains but makes a miscalculation fatal to the play.

‘The Testament of Mary’ Would Achieve More With Less

In Colm Tóibín’s 90-minute monologue “The Testament of Mary,” Fiona Shaw plays a very human Virgin Mary, but director Deborah Warner’s calculated symbolic clutter swamps the text.

'An Enemy of the People' Is a Thrilling, Topical Evening on Broadway

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s brilliant translation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” receives an expert production directed by Doug Hughes, with an astounding ensemble led by Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas.

‘The Nance’ Is Bold, Brave, and Flawed

Eminent theatrical boulevardier Douglas Carter Beane reaches for something deeper and darker in Lincoln Center Theater’s “The Nance,” starring Nathan Lane in a tour de force turn.

A Reconsidered 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Scores

Roundabout Theatre Company’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” features a bracingly fresh title turn from Douglas Hodge in director Jamie Lloyd’s tart reconsideration of this romantic classic.

'Annie' Returns to the Great White Way

There’s so much that’s right about director James Lapine’s joyous revival of “Annie” that it’s particularly painful to have to note the one element that isn’t working.

Flimsy ‘Lucky Guy’ Relies on Hanks for Heft

Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy,” a breezy but thin account of the life and career of columnist Mike McAlary, displaying potent theatrical technique.

Inventive ‘Macbeth’ Provides New Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Tragedy

A stunningly versatile Alan Cumming leads us into dark corridors of the human mind in this near-solo staging of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth, from the National Theatre of Scotland.