Review

‘Smash’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: The Awesome, the Awful, and the Inexplicable

Welcome back to “Smash,” our fellow gluttons for punishment, hate-watchers, and Jeremy Jordan obsessers. Season 2 begins in Boston, where “Bombshell’s” pre-Broadway tryout is ending and everyone is going home.

'Nothing to Hide' Is a Magical Evening

“Nothing to Hide,” Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães’ evening of sleight of hand, directed by Neil Patrick Harris in a world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, is astounding.

'666 Park Avenue' Recap: Episode 1, ‘Pilot’

ABC's supernatural NYC apartment building is filled with zombies, Vanessa Williams, Terry Quinn, sex, and terrifyingly happy couples.

Carolee Carmello Is the Reason to See 'Scandalous'

In “Scandalous,” Kathie Lee Gifford’s flimsy, expository musical about the life of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Carolee Carmello works miracles in a must-see performance.

Billy Eichner: Gay, White, and Terrified!

Don't be fooled by the title of Billy Eichner's new one-man show at Joe's Pub, because this gay comic isn't terrified of anything (certainly not of Hugh Jackman's handlers).

'The Newsroom' Recap: Episode 10, 'The Greater Fool'

The phrase “Greater Fool,” which refers to a naïve buyer of bad stocks, is a metaphor used liberally by Aaron Sorkin. So who are “The Newsroom’s” “greater fools” by season’s end?

There’s a Lot of Yelling but Little Drama in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’

Rob Ashford’s awkward, unmodulated direction and the miscasting of Scarlett Johansson sink this revival of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize–winning “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

American Sexy

Trista Baldwin's new play "American Sexy," now in the tiny downstairs space at the Flea Theater, is rarely surprising in its look at four randy college students on a joyride to Vegas.

'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).

'Nashville' Recap: Episode 1, 'Pilot'

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