Marilyn Stasio

The inspiration for Harvey Fierstein's "Casa Valentina" was a discreet sanctuary in the Catskills where manly men (with wives and children and other baggage) could get their kicks in the...

The screaming starts when a bespangled Neil Patrick Harris parachutes onstage in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and doesn't stop until he's back in his dressing room. That's the kind...

With Idina, Hedwig, and Sally Bowles in town, is it possible for a modest musical heroine like "Violet" to survive on Broadway? Let's hope so, because helmer Leigh Silverman and...

In "The Cripple of Inishmaan," Martin McDonagh's sublime tragi-comedy about life on Ireland's desolate Aran Islands, there are two old biddies who desperately dote on Daniel Radcliffe -- and who...

James Franco and Chris O'Dowd may be the big draws (and well deserving of all their kudos) in this emotionally devastating revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." But...

Everyone hoped "Bullets Over Broadway" would be the show to get those flickering Broadway lights blazing again. In certain wonderful ways -- Susan Stroman's happy-tappy dance rhythms, the dazzling design...

It's the words, stupid. That's what Will Eno keeps telling us in his hypnotically quirky plays. What separates the men from the beasts? The words. What saves humanity from extinction?...

Denzel Washington's rabid fans won't be seeing their idol in this heart-stopping revival of Lorraine Hansberry's ground-breaking 1959 play, "A Raisin in the Sun." They'll be seeing Walter Lee Younger,...

In her belated return to Broadway after "Wicked," powerhouse belter Idina Menzel is sorely misused in "If/Then." "Next to Normal" writing team Brian Yorkey (who bears responsibility for the pretentious...

Terrence McNally tries to cover a lot of territory in "Mothers and Sons": the relationships between mothers and their gay sons; the satisfactions of gay marriage; the dark, enduring legacy...