“Immersive” theater is hot, and on display in two terrific off-Broadway musicals
Theater
On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars
Hearty songs meet happy feet in this vivid revival of the 1936 show by Rodgers and Hart — and Balanchine
Show Stoppers: A Brief History of Rude and Disruptive Behavior in Theater
A noisy group of drummers are the latest examples of a new trend — call it Theater Interruptus
Tony Noms: Our Critic’s Take (and the Complete List of Nominees)
TIME Theater Critic Richard Zoglin offers his analysis of this year’s Tony nominees
Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway
The Broadway season ends with a spate of one-person shows — two of them terrific
The Nance: Gay Burlesque and Straight Plays
Nathan Lane shines, but the play that brings him back to Broadway is another disappointment
Matilda: The Best Musical Since The Lion King
The new import from London is a children’s show for everyone
Fastest-Closing New Broadway Musical of the Year: Hands on a Hardbody
The truck-centric show will have only lasted 56 performances
Lucky Guy: A Broadway Debut for Tom Hanks
Playing a rumpled newspaperman, Hollywood’s everyman has found a perfect vehicle — if not the perfect play
Hands on a Hardbody: Broadway’s New Pickup
A musical about 10 people standing around a truck? It’s not ‘A Chorus Line’
Cinderella Then and Now: Revisiting Rodgers and Hammerstein
It’s new to Broadway. But has the team’s famous TV musical been improved?
Down and Out in Paris: Amy Herzog’s Belleville
A couple’s marriage unravels in Amy Herzog’s dark, draining, masterly new play
A Stage Triumph in Chicago: The Letters — Menacing Head Games in Stalin’s Russia
A play brings heat to the cold Chicago winter