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Garry Marshall and Paul Williams have turned the hit TV show into a good-hearted family musical that can stand on its own.

It's taken 18 years for The great Horton Foote's terrific Reaganomics-era comedy to trickle down to New York since its 1987 premiere but director Michael Wilson's very funny and very human production at Primary Stages is well worth the wait.

Moliere's classic comedy gets buried under Ivo van Hove's high concept production

Capsule reviews of Unlock'd, The Brain From Planet X and Gemini, the Musical

The Mint provides a rare opportunity to see Leo Tolstoy's drama in an impressive and gracefully staged production

Having faith, losing it and trying to understand it are the key issues in this warm, funny and engrossing play, blessed with an exceptional cast in director Ethan McSweeny's moving production.

At an age when a certain amount of wear and tear on the voice is forgivable Marilyn Maye displays gleaming pipes and a rich sense of musicality and lyric interpretation.

Thirty years after her last Broadway musical appearance, Penny Fuller shines in her cabaret debut.

In Neva Small's solo show her career full of meaty roles in unsuccessful musicals is glossed over in such a pixyish, upbeat manner that you might find yourself perpetually wondering what she's leaving out.

A promising Fringe musical protesting Wal-Mart labor practices loses its bite after being revised for Off-Broadway.

Playwright Charles Mee and director Tina Landau adapt a play by Euripides into an abstract pageant that not-so-subtly questions current American foreign policy, amidst some good laughs, some interesting visuals and some scantily clad boys and girls.

Grease is by no means the best musical ever to play on Broadway, but director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall's revival suggests that it might be the most indestructible one.

Truman Capote's remembrance of a day spent with Marilyn Monroe makes an uneasy transition to the stage.

This hyper-funny new Fringe show both skewers and celebrates New York's newest hipster stronghold.

Brandt Johnson's solo play about the lessons learned from being a professional loser is a tale told with sincerity and charm.

Political humorist Will Durst is a funny guy but many of his jokes seem rescued from the recycling bin rather than ripped from the headlines.

Martin Vidnovic brings his rich and robust baritone to The Metropolitan Room

Michael Hollinger's smart, funny and ultimately shocking and downright breathtaking comedy/drama about a string quartet gets a sparkling production at Primary Stages

Ilan Hatsor's tense 1990 drama of three West Bank Palestinian brothers gets its New York debut after over 100 productions worldwide.

One person's terrorist is another person's martyr in Betty Shamieh's skillfully written play that is deceptively cute, funny and entertaining without ever undercutting the seriousness of its issues of violence, heroism and gender.