Theater and Broadway in New York: Critics' picks
Get details, reviews and tickets for the best shows on Broadway and off, as chosen by Time Out's critics.
Looking for tickets to the best Broadway shows and New York theater? Consult the critics' picks in our New York theater listings to find reviews, curtain times and great deals on New York theater tickets.
Annie
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
[Note: Now through July 14, the role of Miss Hannigan is being played by Glee's Jane Lynch.] Anyone who has ever been a child can find something to love in Annie. Just try to throw shade at the sunny optimism of the young heroine’s irrepressible “Tomorrow”; it shines brightly anyhow. Knock the
- 1564 Broadway, at 47th St
- $59-$152, premium $199-$252
- Thu Jun 20 - Sun Jan 5
ANT Fest 2013
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
The busy bees at Ars Nova have combed through a heap of open submissions, piling dozens of the best into a performative anthill teeming with drama, dance, vaudeville and musical comedy. Go to arsnovanyc.com for a complete lineup and the schedule for the variety revue Showgasm.
- 511 W 54th St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
- $5–$15
- Thu Jun 20 - Sat Jun 29
The Assembled Parties
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Adam Feldman. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Broadway). By Richard Greenberg. Dir. Lynne Meadow. With Jessica Hecht, Judith Light, Jeremy Shamos. 2hrs 30mins. One intermission. Richard Greenberg’s elegantly moving The Assembled Parties is somewhere between a slice of life and a slice
- 261 W 47th St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $67–$120
- Thu Jun 20 - Sun Jul 28
Avenue Q
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
After many years, the sassy and clever puppet musical doesn’t show its age. Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s deft Sesame Street–esque novelty tunes about porn and racism still earn their laughs. Avenue Q remains a sly and winning piece of metamusical tomfoolery.—David Cote
- 340 W 50th St, between Eighth and Ninth Aves
- $69.50–$89.50, premium $126.50
- Thu Jun 20 - Mon Dec 30
Blue Man Group
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
Three deadpan, blue-skinned men with extraterrestrial imaginations carry this tourist fave, a show as smart as it is ridiculous. They drum on open tubs of paint, creating splashes of color; they consume Twinkies and Cap'n Crunch; they engulf the audience in a roiling sea of toilet paper. For sheer
- 434 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
- $75–$99
- Thu Jun 20 - Sun Jan 5
The Book of Mormon
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
If theater is your religion and the Broadway musical your sect, you've been woefully faith-challenged of late. Venturesome, boundary-pushing works such as Spring Awakening, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Next to Normal closed too soon. American Idiot was shamefully ignored at the Tonys and will
- 230 W 49th St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $69–$175, premium $252–$477
- Thu Jun 20 - Tue Dec 31
Broadway Bares 23
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
More than 200 chorus boys and girls take it all off in this annual frisky fund-raiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This year's show, directed by Nick Kenkel, is inspired by the fruited plains, amber waves and other double entendre–worthy landscapes of these here United States. For more
- 239 W 52nd St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $65–$2,500
- Sun Jun 23
Broadway Bares 23
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
More than 200 chorus boys and girls take it all off in this annual frisky fund-raiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This year's show, directed by Nick Kenkel, is inspired by the fruited plains, amber waves and other double entendre–worthy landscapes of these here United States. For more
- 239 W 52nd St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $65–$2,500
- Mon Jun 24 - Sun Jun 23
Buyer & Cellar
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Adam Feldman. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Off Broadway). By Jonathan Tolins. Dir. Stephen Brackett. With Michael Urie. 1hr 30mins. No intermission. Stars are to be wished upon, not touched. This is one of the lessons of Jonathan Tolins’s giddily funny solo play, Buyer &
- 27 Barrow St, at Seventh Ave South
- $75
- Thu Jun 20 - Sun Sep 1
Chicago
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
This John Kander–Fred Ebb–Bob Fosse favorite—revived by director Walter Bobbie and choreographer Ann Reinking—tells the saga of chorus girl Roxie Hart, who murders her lover and, with the help of a huckster lawyer, becomes a vaudeville star.—David Cote
- 219 W 49th St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $69–$136.50, premium $186.50–$200
- Thu Jun 20 - Sun Dec 22
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