Thursday, May 31, 2018
★★★ Mart Crowley's 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we've come, is as indelible as ever"and as confounding
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
★★★ John Kander's score and Susan Stroman's choreography soar; the play does not
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
★★★★ Tom Stoppard's early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
★★★ Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo, with three Donnas and an all-woman chorus, put on an entertaining, confounding biomusical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:16PM[SHARE]★★★ In Lucy Thurber's look at college admissions and social class, the hard-working students don't get what they deserve
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
★★ Lauren Ridloff is terrific in the role Marlee Matlin made famous, but that doesn't save this horribly dated play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
★★★★ Director-choreography Casey Nicholaw has fun playing with the Plastics " but why's it all so white and straight?
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
★★★ Something terrible has happened in corn country, but the young author of this spiky play doesn't quite unpack it
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
★★★ A solid Frozen delivers the key moments and some strong performances, but it never truly lets go.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
★★ The Jimmy Buffett musical, a paean to chilling out, has good songs, a talented cast, and takes itself way too seriously.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016
About 45 minutes into Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil musical that opens at Broadway's Lyric Theatre tonight, the twin aerialists Andrew and Kevin Atherton are suspended over a stage set of w…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
There is tremendous amount of talent, and a long list of credits, behind School of Rock, the Broadway musical of version of the 2003 Jack Black comedy. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. D…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
The bad (and frankly a little surprising) news about On Your Feet, the new musical by, about, and featuring the songs of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is that at no point through its nearly two…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Playwright Robert O'Hara considers how family stereotypes and racial politics clash with reality during a raucous drug intervention in this Public Theater premiere.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
The Atlantic Theater Company stages the first major New York revival of Caryl Churchill's landmark 1979 comedy about gender politics and sexual identity.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Christopher Abbott, Georgia Engel and Lois Smith star in this contemplative new work by Annie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind 'The Flick.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Friday, March 14, 2014
'If/Then'
Mothers and SonsGolden TheatreOpens March 24Terrence McNally's latest stars the indefatigable Tyne Daly as a mother who pays an unexpected visit to her dead son's former partner 20…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
The curse, and the blessing, of an initials-based moniker is that those simple, monosyllabic sounds rhyme with so much. There's "Hey, …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Lauren Valez and Anthony Chisholm in 'The Happiest Song Plays Last.'
In early 2012, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. A year later, her prize-winning work, Water By t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2014
You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:25PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
'Almost, Maine.'
If you're going to object to Almost, Maine"that it's too saccharine, too sentimental, a little too impressed with its own quirkiness"then its title is as good a place as any…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Frank Langella in 'King Lear.' (Photo by Johan Persson)
Ruth Snyder, whom Wikipedia pithily if reductively identifies as "an American murderess," was electrocuted by the State of New York at…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Shirelles in 'Beautiful.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Where you lead, Carole, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to.
And if it happens that you lead me to a mediocre bioplay that combin…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
'Pippin.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
So, comes the inevitable question when someone learns what I do for a living, what should I see?
It depends, I reply with equal inevitability. What do you li…
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