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Casey Likes as Marty McFly in ‘Back to the Future’ on Broadway, pictured in a red vest and standing in front of a DeLoreon (photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Two new Broadway productions offer case studies in brand extension and fan service.
Victoria Clark, center, in 'Kimberly Akimbo' (photo: Joan Marcus) 
Arts & CultureTheater
Jim McDermott
“Kimberly Akimbo” is about two young people who have an incredibly hopeful perspective on life. But it’s also quietly about childhood trauma.
A scene from ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ (photo: Jeremy Daniel)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.
Phillipa Soo (center) and company in Lincoln Center Theater's production of CAMELOT.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Three strong new revivals offer an instructive comparative lens through which to view the form’s development over the decades. 
Arts & CultureTheater
Jim McDermott
In these Lenten and Easter days in which the church celebrates a man whose divinity was revealed in his willingness to sacrifice everything for love, consider "Sweeney Todd" to be that story’s dark, demonic twin.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
A lovingly crafted new revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music makes a fresh case for reconsideration of Lorraine Hansberry's less well-known second play, which followed the classic “A Raisin in the Sun.”