New reviews

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• Rafta, Rafta…

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• An old English farce gets a South Asian spin in this New Group American premiere.

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• John Lithgow: Stories by Heart

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• John Lithgow’s new solo show leaves you wanting more.

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• Stretch (a fantasia)

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• A die-hard Nixon loyalist recalls the heady days of taped conversations and Watergate.

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• Old Comedy After Aristophanes’ Frogs

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• David Greenspan offers his witty, postmodern take on ancient comedy by Aristophanes.

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• The Devil and Tom Walker

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• Wholesome: That’s not a word generally associated with Faustian tales, and yet this musical is an exception.

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• BabyLove

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• There's nothing more egocentric than an autobiographical solo show…except maybe having a baby.

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• Me

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• Verse playwright Kirk Wood Bromley stares deep into the mirror; he likes what he sees.

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• Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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• Baroque-era sexual intrigue never seemed so vanilla as in this Roundabout Theatre Company revival.

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• The Country Girl

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• Mike Nichols stages a celebrity-studded revival of Clifford Odets second-rate 1950 drama.

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• Boeing-Boeing

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• This 1962 French farce about a swinging bachelor juggling stewardesses is silly, sexy supersonic fun.

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• Thurgood

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• Laurence Fishburne makes a judicious return to the Broadway stage in a solo show about the Supreme Court justice.

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• The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)

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• Downtown troupe Elevator Repair Service works wonders with William Faulkner's 1929 novel.

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• Substitution

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• Jan Maxwell mourns her dead son—and starts an affair with one of his teachers—in this new drama.

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• Endgame

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• John Turturro and Elaine Stritch appear in this mostly solid staging of Samuel Beckett's bleak classic.

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• Cry-Baby

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• This mostly mediocre Broadway adaptation of the 1990 John Waters flick is way too Square.

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• The Four of Us

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• A slick and extremely funny frenemy play by Itamar Moses.

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• Brits Off Broadway: Yellow Moon

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• David Greig's tart and clever verse drama doles out tragedy with thrift and a flair for the mythic.

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• All Eyes and Ears

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• A Cuban family prospers under Castro in the 1960s—with serious moral consquences.

Opened recently

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• From Up Here

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•  Liz Flahive’s exceptionally skilled and affecting family drama looks at second chances in a tempestuous clan.

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• Macbeth

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• Patrick Stewart's Macbeth scares the hell out of us in this slick and genuinely frightening version of the Scottish play.

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• The Castle

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• Four former inmates—who collectively spent 70 years in jail—soberingly relate their hard-luck stories.

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• God’s Ear

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• Jenny Schwartz gives eloquent voice to grief in this downtown instant classic, making the move to Off Broadway.

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• A Catered Affair

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• Harvey Fierstein stars in this small, deary musical about a small, dreary family.

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• South Pacific

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• Bartlett Sher’s revival of South Pacific is faultlessly decorous; each moment whispers "masterpiece theater" into your ear.

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• Honor

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• A tuneful musical version of Shakespeare's As You Like It—set in feudal Japan.

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• The New Century

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• Paul Rudnick is pitching camp at Lincoln Center, and it’s worth catching.

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• Gypsy

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• The Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring the astonishing Patti LuPone, has now arrived at the—wow.

Cultural gatekeepers: Theater

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• Causing a scene

• Can anyone save us from the aging subscribers and rank commercialism that has paralyzed our city’s stages? Theater editor David Cote comes to the rescue.

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• Q&A: André Bishop and Paige Evans

• André Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, talks with his newest staffer, Paige Evans of LCT3.

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• Theater curator's calendar

• A peek inside the yearly planner of St. Ann's Warehouse artistic director Susan Feldman—a globe-trotting tastemaker.

New videos

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• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• In his video review, David Cote tells you whether the star-studded all-black Cat is good luck or bad.

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• The Weekly Vlog

• David Cote and Adam Feldman trade notes on the week's offerings.

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• Sunday in the Park with George

• There's a revival of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine art-world musical. David Cote reviews.

Don't forget

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• In the Heights

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• This musical has plenty of good old-fashioned Broadway heart, along with a thrilling new beat.

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• Passing Strange

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• Indie-rocker Stew goes on a transcontinental journey in search of the Real. Sex, drugs and rock & roll.

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• Sunday in the Park with George

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• A spectacular and touching revival of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine masterpiece.

Best on Broadway

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• Spring Awakening

• The kids are so not all right in this rock-Victorian mash-up.

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• August: Osage County

• American fucked-up-family drama at its nastiest

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• Xanadu

• Camp perfection circa 1980.

Best Off Broadway

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• Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland

• The mind rebels at Richard Foreman's new sensory attack.

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• Adding Machine

• Is it too early to declare Adding Machine the best new musical of 2008?

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• Betrayed

• George Packer's sobering drama takes a hard look at how America rolled the Iraqis.