Theater (Broadway) – Page 6

‘Boop!’ Arrives on Broadway, With a Surprising 100-Year Back Story

From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!

By Michael Paulson

Clooney, George Cromer, David Good Night, and Good Luck (Play) Heslov, Grant Theater Theater (Broadway) Winter Garden Theater (Manhattan, NY)

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

By Jesse Green

Burr, Bill Culkin, Kieran Glengarry Glen Ross (Play) Mamet, David Marber, Patrick McKean, Michael Odenkirk, Bob Palace Theater Theater Theater (Broadway)

Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr

Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.

By Jesse Green

Ejiofor, Chiwetel Jones, James Earl McKellen, Ian Othello (Play) Robeson, Paul Shakespeare, William Stewart, Patrick Theater Theater (Broadway) Theater (Off Broadway)

Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell

Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that easy to call.

By Ben Brantley