The Divine Miss M is playing the other Divine Miss M -- Hollywood's Sue Mengers, the first super agent. She boasted an A-list roster of clients in the 1970s -- Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Cher, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds -- coupled with...

Imagine you're vacationing in a seaside hotel in Cornwall and casually pick up a dusty volume of plays in the library. That's the feeling of This Side of Neverland, now at the Pearl Theater. Audiences have stumbled into the world of...

Taking a page from Chicago, the new Broadway revival of Pippin, now at the Music Box, gives the audience razzle dazzle.

This incarnation, which boasts spectacular visuals, all of the human variety, is Cirque de Soleil meets Broadway. Director Diane...

The Assembled Parties is one of the few original plays to debut on Broadway this season -- and it's a winner. Opening in a grand Upper West Side apartment populated by assimilated Jews, it addresses searing issues of family, class...

In the heyday of New York's tabloid journalism, when newsrooms were boys' clubs and you could smoke and swear with impunity, the best reporters were on a mission to right wrongs. For these power-to-the-people crusaders, the 1980s and '90s were a hellava...

Matilda is a musical with Dickensian overtones -- nasty parents and fiendish headmistresses. Fans of Roald Dahl's book know the little girl has telekinetic powers; though the Broadway musical, an Olivier-winning West End import, focuses more on human chemistry.

Now at the Shubert...

Kinky Boots is loud, mundane and best suited for suburbanites who consider drag risqué. It's another movie turned Broadway musical, sans the great score and story that defined the touching La Cage Aux Folles.

Now at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, Kinky Boots...

It may sound like an improbable topic for a Broadway musical, but Hands on a Hardbody, now at the Brooks Atkinson, takes as its premise, a group of people hoping to win a $22,000 Ford truck. The catch -- they can't take their hands off the vehicle. Does the show...

There is something touching about outsiders finding each other. In the case of Talley's Folly, set in a boathouse in the summer of 1944, it's a lively Jewish accountant with a torturous past, and a Southern Protestant whose liberal sensibilities put her...

Elite prep schools exist to produce an elite citizenry. The education may be first-rate, but the ultimate goal has been to unite a select few via social connections and old-school ties. Those alliances are traded on ever after.

That unique world of old-line prep schools -- and the culture they...

The revival of the Tony-winning Sondheim musical Passion, now at off-Broadway's CSC, is a strangely hypnotic work. Based on the 19th-century novel Fosca, the emotions are so outsized its theatricality is assured.

Staged with quiet intensity, Passion marries an operatic sensibility to a twisted tale. Giorgio (Ryan Silverman), a...

Downtown theater legend Charles Busch is best known for his satiric gender-bender plays. So it's something of a revelation to see him adapting a best-selling children's book into "a rabbit tale of musical mystery." But Busch knows how to reach the...

The Stolen Chair company's The Man Who Laughs, is a remarkable achievement. A stage production performed as a live silent film, this captivating multimedia effort is freely adapted from Victor Hugo's novel. The twist -- and it's a big one --...

In the timing-is-everything category, don't miss All in the Timing, David Ives's clever homage to wordplay, now at 59E59. Primary Stages has wisely celebrated his six one-act comedies with a 20th anniversary production.

Ives, who wrote the provocative hits Venus...

It's Halloween night in Smitty's Tittys and Pies, a New Jersey dive populated by a loser manager, two pole dancers and a drunk. The spirit of dead dancer Tina, sister to the sassy Marie Therese and former girlfriend of Agatha,...

It's an unusual Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when Big Daddy is the one standout. Tennessee Williams' bourbon-soaked drama about family, homosexuality and mendacity is powerful, but this Cat has been declawed.

That's ironic, given the intensity of the drama...

Life in 1950s Kansas was no picnic. Beneath the repressive conventions of small-town life, desire smolders. In this poignant revival of William Inge's Picnic, now at the American Airlines Theater, sexual allure and sadness co-mingle with emotionally explosive results.

When beefy drifter Hal Carter (super-buffed Sebastian Stan) comes to...

Golden Boy is a knockout.

It's a magnificent exploration of what it means to be an American and how we define success. Set in a lower-class New York neighborhood in 1936, it tells the story of Joe Bonaparte. Like an earlier Bonaparte, he, too, wants to be king of...

Long before the avarice of the rich was an election-year topic, Ben Jonson was lacerating the vices of the wealthy, cravenly worshiping at the altar of Mammon. In his 1607 Jacobean farce Volpone, artistically staged off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel, Jonson lampoons humanity's rapaciousness for self-gratification, both carnal and financial.

Charles Dickens died in 1870, midway through his last novel, and its unfinished ending has been a creative lure to stage and screen ever since. The current Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Studio 54 is a worthy addition to the canon. A fun, tongue-in-cheek musical comedy,...