Boeing-Boeing comes out of storage, and the great Mark Rylance nearly gets it airborne.

Both The Country Girl and Les Liaisons Dangereuses give virtuoso actors a chance to triumph.

Cry-Baby’s cool detachment saps the essence of musical theater: emotion.

A Catered Affair tries to elevate itself by going grim.

On a newly experimental Broadway, the naïvely optimistic South Pacific harks back to a different age.

The only place where Mel Brooks can rub elbows with Mack the Knife.

A Gypsy skeptic takes stock of Rose’s return.

Even talented playwrights fall into one trap: pandering to the lefty theatergoing audience.

In the Heights brings hip-hop and salsa beats to the old-school musical-comedy form. Plus: Brick, I am your father.

Passing Strange smashes Broadway clichés with an electric guitar.