Broadway theater

****/***** 4 out of 5 In a theater season in which there have been, inexplicably, a surfeit of new plays that are surrealist or absurdist (or both)—some good, others derivative and uninspired—it’s refreshing to see a revival of a masterwork...

 ****/*****  (four out of five stars)

***/***** (three stars out of five) There’s a strange, subtle change coming over certain storylines in American Theater. One which makes us aware that despite seeming deficiencies in acceptance and tolerance in our society, there have actually been some major...

*/***** one star out of five

****/***** 4 out of 5 Imagine, if you will, Harlem in the Prohibition Era. Black Americans are flooding into this city-within-New York City from all over the country, particularly the Jim Crow south; swing dance clubs are all the rage,...