Comic man-child Will Ferrell takes his perfect role to Broadway. Plus: The battling queens of The Third Story.

Mercedes Ruehl is a brilliantly monolithic matriarch in The American Plan. Plus, Hedda Gabler.

Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw, is every bit as clever as Tracy Letts’s epic hit August: Osage County.

At BAM, Sam Mendes’s production of The Cherry Orchard is a bold beginning to a daring series.

The Cripple of Inishmaan is light of heart—for a pitch-black Martin McDonagh drama.

The Roundabout's revival of Pal Joey has had an All About Eve journey to opening night.

Three questions present themselves regarding Shrek the Musical.

In setting the centerpiece of his play Prayer For My Enemy, Craig Lucas has given himself a challenge.

As reporter Ian (Reed Birney) and his former mistress Cate (Marin Ireland) enter the posh Leeds hotel room that’s the setting for Soho Rep’s production of Blasted, Ian casually hangs the DO NOT DISTURB sign on the doorknob.

In Dividing the Estate, Horton Foote takes the southern family drama out for one more spin.