It's been two weeks since I saw the show, so now seems like the perfect time to blog about the Ragtime revival on Broadway, right?Perfect.I had a conversation with a coworker yesterday - this place is lousy wit…

Thos chats to legendary cabaret star and interpreter of the standards, Steve Ross, about his incredible career and also his appreciation of the works of Alan Jay Lerner. Also, we celebrate Johnny Mercer's cent…

'God' drops but 'Race' wows

At "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," you're mostly just waiting for the next song to come along, and more often than not when it does, you're disappointed.

Although the visual wit is apparent, it's too much in service of a work that might be titled "As She Likes It."

The director of The 39 Steps puts As You Like It in the conceptual setting of a Hollywood sound stage.

"Bonnie and Clyde" feels slight and predictable, its hot-button issues concerning the Depression's deep societal injustices left largely unplumbed.

The creators find little to say about the romantic robbers that hasn't been said more compellingly elsewhere.

The story of the doomed young outlaws is told with considerable wit and heart, bolstered by an inventive visual sense, strong performances and a score that bewitches in fits and starts.

Laura Osnes and Stark Sands give perfect performances as the 1930s outlaws in this excellent new musical.

Abi Titmuss has put her clothes back on to play Lady Macbeth. And it looks like the lads' mag favourite really can act

Monroe helped to kickstart Fitzgerald's career, but these Fifties icons shared more than a love of jazz

The Rocky Horror Show has been stripped back. 'It's no panto - we want people to listen,' says its star David Bedella

Troian Bellisario goes from student to working actor in two not-so-easy steps.

Vanessa you-can-hardly-ever-get- any-better-looking Williams. She's everywhere.

For star Stephen Bogardus, "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is a timely celebration of the generosity of spirit that can be a salve for life's struggles.

Who fakes a stutter? Ask T-T-Tina

'SOUTH PACIFIC' | Cast meets veterans of both World War II and war in Iraq

The play with the quirky name, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, touches upon some serious subjects.

James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex - and why his stutter wa…

British-born of Spanish and Italian stock, the actor has never felt at home in England. Why, then, is he so good in English roles?

How does an actor engage with the part they are playing? Fiona Shaw undergoes a brain scan while reciting TS Eliot to help shed some light on the mystery

It was not boredom but anger that tempted me to leave a play in mid-show - but I lacked the courage

To the series of annoying things people do at the theater, I'd like to add one: checking the time on your phone. Repeatedly.

There's enough material for several plays in "The Starry Messenger," Kenneth Lonergan's sluggish, soggy, mid-life-crisis tale starring Matthew Broderick as an ineffectual astronomy instructor, husband, father a…

If only Kenneth Lonergan had written a less overstuffed, overambitious and underwhelming play for his friend Matthew Broderick.

A nearly three hour-long yawn, "The Starry Messenger" is a dull play about a dull man, duly and dully played by Matthew Broderick.

Running nearly three hours, it's as agonizingly dull as any evening of theater in recent memory.

Matthew Broderick repeats his performance from last season's "The Philanthropist," as another dull midlevel academic with a stalled career, in Kenneth Lonergan's disappointing new play.

Lackluster lead performances from Matthew Broderick and Catalina Sandino Moreno drag down Kenneth Lonergan's new play.

It's sluggishly paced, overflowing with sub plots and nearly three hours long. So why is "The Starry Messenger" so moving? Maybe it's because there's so much empathy for its characters that all of them, even th…

Is the final product perfect? By no means... But to grant undue attention to these problems is to overlook a legitimately lovely piece of writing that entertains, enlightens, and engages throughout.

While it's frustrating at times and too unhurried, this melancholy, resolutely non-judgmental mid-life crisis drama creeps up on you. It smartly refuses forced epiphanies in favor of quiet contemplation, with a…

This gentle, compassionate comic drama re-establishes Kenneth Lonergan as a possessor of all the crucial parts of a good dramatist's anatomy.

Harry Belafonte, Michael Bolton, America Ferrara, Jane Krakowski, George Lucas, Mario Lopez, Debra Messing, Kelly Rutherford, Sherie Rene Scott, and Vanessa Williams are among the celebrities caught by our came…

The songs, with Fela's potent pidgin-poetry in subtitles, are a jubilant, subtle mixture of Afro-Caribbean rhythm, jazz brass, Yoruban chant and R&B. But they were never meant to carry a story on their back, an…

The show's producers took a huge risk bringing a show with a relatively narrow niche appeal to Broadway. But in spite of its overflowing theatricality, "Fela!" falls short of providing a solid night of drama.

A smash hit Off Broadway, this wildly entertaining show will need all the help it can get to attract mainstream audiences, though the late addition of producers Jay-Z and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith will surely…

Director-choreographer Bill T. Jones has improved this dynamic political musical for a transfer to the Main Stem. But will it survive on star-driven Broadway?

Go to "Fela!" anticipating a super-stimulating, world-class song-and-dance concert, led by a remarkable performer, and you won't be disappointed.

"FELA!" is a unique Broadway experience that leaves the audience on its feet and wanting more.

This bio-musical about Afrobeat founder Fela Anikulapo Kuti is given an exuberant and richly rewarding production from director/choreographer Bill T. Jones.

The show is as exciting as before and looks sensational in its Broadway home where it has taken over the interior walls of the theater's auditorium.

The show will prove a stretch for conservative Broadway tastes, but anybody desiring something more adventurous than the same old musical stuff should check out "Fela!"

The Shrine may have gotten a lot bigger, but the religion of Fela! has not grown less electrifying.

Bill T. Jones' wildly loose-limbed journey into the throbbing heart of Afrobeat breaks bold new ground in musical theater.