Review

'Nashville' Recap: Episode 1, 'Pilot'

Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere play rival country music singers in ABC's new musical drama "Nashville."

'666 Park Avenue' Recap: Episode 3, 'The Dead Don't Stay Dead'

Vanessa Williams finally gets to shine thanks to some Scotch and ill-fated girl talk with Jane, who is starting to question her sanity. And no, the questioning is not related to her roots (though it should be).

Review: 'Love Never Dies'

Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to "Phantom of the Opera," filmed onstage in Melbourne, Australia, and broadcast to cinemas, is a melodramatic rehash.

‘Matilda the Musical’ Offers Coup After Coup de Théâtre

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” rushes at you from the stage of the Shubert Theatre with the relentlessness of a high-speed rail train.

Chaplin

Despite charismatic work by Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin and Warren Carlyle’s busy direction, nobody escapes Christopher Curtis’ dismally dull biographical musical unscathed.

‘Harper Regan’ Tries to Complicate the Uncomplicated

Simon Stephens’ “Harper Regan,” getting its American premiere at Atlantic Theater Company after debuting at London’s National Theatre in 2008, is far too muddled for its own good.

Nonmusical Revue 'How to Be a New Yorker' Is Bland Tourist Fare

“How to Be a New Yorker,” the nonmusical revue of New York facts, sketches, and stereotypes playing at Sofia’s Downstairs Theater, mines obvious material in unimaginative ways.

Theresa Rebeck’s New Comedy ‘Dead Accounts’ Is DOA on Broadway

Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy “Dead Accounts,” with a cast featuring Norbert Leo Butz, Katie Holmes, Josh Hamilton, and Jayne Houdyshell, wouldn’t even pass muster as a Lifetime movie.

‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ Is Pure Joy From Start to Finish

Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, and Kristine Nielsen hit Broadway with Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” easily the season’s best new play to date.