Phylicia Rashad has taken on the role of a different type of Big Mama  in August: Osage County. Let's say, she's learning on the job.

Season nine of Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year series comes to an end celebrating 1970. Not exactly a blockbuster year, but one that included Company, The Rothschilds and Applause, among its interesting productions.  

Horton Foote's  last play may have brought him a late-life triumph, but its comic intent comes packed with tragic subtext.

Lillian Hellman's pride of vipers are front and center in this excellent revival of The Little  Foxes. All the greed and manipulation are hard to miss.

The Tony Awards show was a series of hit and miss moments. Let's just say the 2008-2009 season deserved a  better platform  .

Three decades old, and thoroughly WASP-centric, this A.R. Gurney classic speaks broadly in an age of diminishing expectations.

 Debbie Reynolds makes her Cafe Carlyle debut a pleasant way to spend some quality time with a silver screen legend.

With The Power of Two, Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson have put together a whale of a cabaret act. It bodes well for a burgeoning cabaret future together.

College students suffer from anomie and a surfeit of pot!

This revival of Ragtime comes pretty close to duplicating the opulence of the original. And the actors bring big voices and powerful acting to the proceedings.