We hate to milk the pun, but there’s no denying there’s been a lot of buzz about Broadway’s In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. The play marks playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Broadway debut and is built around one very electrifying piece of equipment (and features a talked-about scene of full frontal male nudity). But while ...

It hasn't even been a decade since the original production of Ragtime closed on Broadway, and yet the popular history-based musical is already back, in a new staging that opened November 15 at the Neil Simon Theatre. And why not? With unforgettable characters like Coalhouse Walker, a black Jazz pianist who fights for justice, Jewish immigrant Tateh and Mother ...

It has been nearly 50 years since Finian's Rainbow, the classic musical packed with jazz and American songbook standards, was last seen on a Broadway stage. On October 29 the tuner officially returned, bringing the story of Irishman Finian, his daughter Sharon, a stolen pot of gold and the topsy-turvy land of Missitucky back for audiences—including WOM panelists ...

Playwright Patrick Marber, he of Closer fame, is known for penning some seriously layered, polarizing characters, so it’s no surprise that our Word of Mouth panel had some very different points of view about his latest project, Roundabout Theater Company’s three-hander After Miss Julie. What might surprise you, however, is how the show’s two biggest names, former ...

A boy. A girl. A love story. And three Word of Mouth panelists who love them! Broadway's new musical Memphis is one of just two original tuners (that aren’t revivals) hitting the stage this fall, so we were very curious to hear what Word of Mouth-ers Kathleen, Phil and Maggie had to say about the brand-spanking new production ...

Bye Bye Birdie may be one of the most produced and beloved musicals in Broadway history, but somehow the lovable tuner about a rock star whose kiss turns a small town upside down has taken nearly 50 years to get back to the Rialto. After that half-century wait, everyone’s anxious to see what the very first revival of the ...

The Royal Family centers around theater people--wild, eccentric theater people who happened to be related. Of course, insiders of the Broadway community will find their quirks hilarious, but do regular theatergoers get such a kick out of this comedy, which was written in 1927? We sent office worker Kathleen, graphic designer Matt and student Angie (her first review for us ...

What a piece of work is Hamlet! Shakespeare’s masterpiece, arguably the most famous play written in the English language, is back on Broadway with Hollywood hotshot Jude Law as the melancholy Dane. The ultimate revenge tragedy finds Prince Hamlet consumed with grief and determined to avenge his father’s apparent murder, with devastating consequences for his family and the ...

Word of Mouth panelists Ellen, Tom and Maggie knew the framework of Carrie Fisher's life before stepping in to a matinee of her Broadway show Wishful Drinking--born to celebrities and scandal, world famous for playing Princess Leia in Star Wars, tabloid-ready for her struggles with pills and booze. But what did they learn from the one-woman vehicle, in ...