Mama Rose long has been known for her powerhouse belt and for being the scariest Bad Showbiz Mother, but not for moving the audience to tears. Audra McDonald, surely the best actress ever to play this ...

Based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, the play begins in the 1920s in Seattle. A clamor of kids rehearse for Uncle Jocko’s (Jacob Ming-Trent) kid-focused vaudeville act. Baby June ...

Three hours, with one intermission. At the Majestic Theatre, 245 W. 44th St. “Gypsy” is, by the estimation of many — including me — the greatest musical ever written. But you wouldn’t know it from the ...