Real laughs make a too-rare appearance on Broadway.

Lestat recalls the cheeseball bombast of that decade at its worst; The Wedding Singer does better by giving the same era a cheerful wink.

John Guare mixes his experience of Beame-era Greenwich Village with the day’s seedier headlines to give the old moving-to-the-big-city story a distinct 1977 flavor.

Julia’s not a disaster, but Three Days of Rain deserves a better production. Plus: A Threepenny dreadful.

Stuff Happens purports to tell us how Iraq went down—but a little more intellectual rigor would’ve helped.

Lisa Kron’s Well is a moving play about her mother that wonders, “If I got better, why couldn’t she?”

Timing, tone, Alec Baldwin: Everything’s wrong with this Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

Ring of Fire lacks spark; Grey Gardens does too, but it’s saved by one fantastic star.

John Patrick Shanley and Martin McDonagh go head-to-head again, with a new outcome.

In The Pajama Game, Harry Connick Jr. is a stiff (with great pecs). But he sure can work that piano.