Tickets and Reviews of Broadway’s Best Shows

Blair Singer?s artful comic drama ?The Most Damaging Wound,? at the Manhattan Theater Source, confirms what many women have long feared: that male bonding is all about grown men behaving like little boys.

Much of the power of ?Billy Elliot? as an honest tear-jerker lies in its ability to give equal weight to the sweet dreams of terpsichorean flight and the sourness of a dream-denying reality.

?Waves,? a remarkable, genre-defying multimedia translation of ?The Waves,? Virginia Woolf?s most challenging novel, raises the bar for literary adaptations.

With ?Dawn,? a tale of alcoholism and incest, Thomas Bradshaw is to some extent a victim of his own notoriety.

Ms. Turner has joined the cast of the Off Broadway play ?The Third Story? by Charles Busch.

The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera.

It is not only refreshing, but intellectually challenging to experience new work from different cultures. For that reason alone I applaud 59E59 for hosting Made in Poland: A Festival of New Polish Plays, presented by the Polish Cultural Institute. In Sandbox/The First Time, two one-act plays by Michal Walczak, there are additional reasons for applause—specifically, talented casts, bold use of repetition, smart sets, and keen directing.

Inspired by a daring rescue of six Irish prisoners in 1875, Catalpa is a sensational sea-faring, epic one-man saga conceived and performed by Donal O’Kelly with live music by Trevor Knight. Following its premier in Dublin and world tour through Melbourne, London, Chicago, Toronto, Paris, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Geneva, Catalpa has anchored in New York at the Donaghy Theatre at the Irish Arts Center for a limited engagement through the end of November.

The Target Margin Theater will present ?Ten Blocks on the Camino Real? from Jan. 14-31 at the Ohio Theater in SoHo.

Repertorio Español is presenting Pedro Calderón de la Barca?s classic 17th-century drama ?La Vida Es Sueño,? or ?Life Is a Dream,? at the Gramercy Arts Theater.