Theater fans will give it a standing ovation; others may be moved only to polite applause.

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2018

There's loads of talent on display (from puppets to Boy George), plus plenty of dish about them all.

| Nov 5, 2018

For those who believe there's no business like show business, this documentary will be a singular sensation.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2007

For the Broadway babies out there, ShowBusiness will make you want to schedule a trip to the Great White Way.

| Jul 12, 2007

Bright lights, big drama. A delectable trip down Broadway.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 30, 2007

This is an entertaining visit to a strange planet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2007

It is filled with neurotic people in greasepaint, some charming, most amusing, and by the time you've spent an hour and a half with them, you're more than invested in their lives and cares.

| Jun 21, 2007

Along the way, the film includes insightful observations about the creative process.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2007

In the end, I wish Berenstein had devoted her filmmaking to two musicals instead of four, thus affording even more screen time to each show's creative process (the audition process, the choreography, early rehearsals and such).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2007

The film's slick and entertaining, an obvious must-see for musical hounds. It holds water for laypeople, though, because the insights into a communal creative process are so sharp.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2007

Sheds much-needed light on a fascinating show-business institution.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2007

Dori Berinstein's cameras catch gallant theater people doing what they've done since Sophocles was a pup: rehearsing, revising, worrying, learning, stretching, struggling to bump things up from good to wonderful and constantly, fervently hoping.

| Jun 7, 2007

Dori Berinstein's fine documentary chronicles the production of four high-profile musicals during the 2003-'04 New York theater season.

| Jun 7, 2007

Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2007

The film is a love letter to theater and the people who make it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2007

Following the shows from rehearsals to Tony Awards night, [director Dori Berenstein] gets behind the scenes and does a good job conveying the incessant anxieties and glee of the talents involved.

| Original Score: B | May 24, 2007

A smart, highly entertaining piece of cinema-reportage.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2007

Short on insight. You'll have to look elsewhere than this love letter to the Great White Way to explain why Wicked and Avenue Q became huge hits, and why Caroline, or Change joined Taboo as a costly flop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2007

What stands out, not surprisingly, is the work and passion that goes into the shows. But seeing all this from the inside creates an extraordinary level of empathy for those involved.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2007

It's all conveyed with an evenhanded, often affectionate tone. Even [Rosie] O'Donnell comes off sympathetically.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2007