Monday, May 26, 2025
Cracked Open " 25 May 2025 At first pass, Cracked Open seems like a moving play for audiences who haven't dealt with serious mental illness. Unfortunately, I not only have multiple diagnoses…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actor in a Play Glenn Davis, Purpose Glenn Davis undoubtedly has the most demanding role in this show. Every moment he is struggling with deep mental…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2025
Good Night, and Good Luck " 22 May 2025 I loved the message and the spirit of Good Night, and Good Luck. It is timely and crucially important to understand the difference between news …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Goddess " 17 May 2025 The energy and impact of Goddess as the best musical I have seen in a very long time was evident from the first downbeat. Every element of this show is original and it …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PM[SHARE]Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole " 16 May 2025 Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor have written a deliciously dark masterpiece in this unforgettable production, illuminating Nat "King" Cole's in…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 06:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 18, 2025
Bus Stop " 17 May 2025 William Inge's Bus Stop is a slice of life play set at a bus stop diner in the middle of a storm in Kansas City. The bus is stuck in the ice, and the passengers are st…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:00PM[SHARE]Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Best Book of a Musical Marco Ramirez, Buena Vista Social Club There's not much of a book to this one, but it does tie the songs together and keep the focus on…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2025
Glengarry Glen Ross " 14 May 2025 Theatre artists today often live in a world of interpreting and improving " but really it's just about making changes and adding to the canon of what has al…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
To Free a Mockingbird " 12 May 2025 To Free a Mockingbird creator and performer Grace Aki delivers a funny, dark, and twisted solo performance at Soho Playhouse. The story works its way t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 06:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
Smash " 11 May 2025 Although many expect Smash to simply be a fun, comedic musical that's pure entertainment, I found myself puzzling through some broader themes that came to light in the pr…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:05PM[SHARE]Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Direction of a Musical Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club Since the actual text of Buena Vista Social Club is so minimal, it fell on director Saheem Ali to m…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
Operation Mincemeat " 8 May 2025 Most reminiscent of The Producers, Operation Mincemeat leans into the idea that people with highly classified, top secret government jobs can actually be mor…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:26AM[SHARE]Floyd Collins " 9 May 2025 Floyd Collins is utterly unlike the rest of this Broadway season's musicals, and I found it an incredible breath of fresh air. Structured more like an opera than a…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow " 06 May 2025 A high intensity ride through the life of possibly possessed Henry Creel (Louis McCartney), Stranger Things tells a story taking place i…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2025
Purpose " 04 May 2025 If I had to characterize Purpose in a single word, I think I might say, "hypocritical""but I'd mean it in a good way. Purpose focuses on family values, but exposes the …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:21PM[SHARE]Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actress in a Play Tara Ashe, English Elham was a challenging character because she struggled the most with the language barrier, and Tara Ashe had…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:29PM[SHARE]John Proctor is the Villain " 03 May 2025 John Proctor is the Villain examines the shifting perceptions of the status quo and radical redefinitions of feminism in a small town in Georgia …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30AM[SHARE]Buena Vista Social Club " 03 May 2025 The strongest element of Buena Vista Social Club was also the uniting force within the world of the show " the music. Though it didn't used to…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2025
78th Annual Tony Awards Predictions " Mason Pilevsky Beginning Sunday May 4, Pages on Stages will be dropping Tony Award predictions every week until the big night. The first set of predicti…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2025
Just in Time " 02 May 2025 There are few musicians, actors, and performers whose talent can truly transcend genre, and, in Just In Time, Jonathan Groff proves his versatility a thousand t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
Irishtown " 01 May 2025 Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's dark comedy Irishtown explores the concept of how theatre is created and whether it's best to stay within the realm of what you know or boldly…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:29PM[SHARE]Death Becomes Her " 29 April 2024 Death Becomes Her is a show that didn't work for me, but I'm having a hard time explaining why. The design elements were flawless and beautiful. Each act…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 05:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Dead Outlaw " 30 April 2025 I applaud Dead Outlaw for being one of the few Broadway shows with genuinely original content, a fully original score, and no need for a television/movie star to …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2025
Real Women Have Curves " 25 April 2025 Real Women Have Curves was speaking my language from the moment I entered the theatre and saw the gorgeous mural that set the tone for story that, l…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
Pirates! The Penzance Musical " 09 April 2025 Roundabout Theater Company's swashbuckling re-setting of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance in New Orleans, Louisiana is the v…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2025
Manhatten Mayhem by David Rothenberg, review written 25 April 2025 David Rothenberg's new memoir, Manhattan Mayhem, is an intelligent, beautiful look at a lifetime of memories (and fictio…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Hold Me in the Water " 17 April 2025 Since I first saw Ryan J. Haddad present a preliminary reading of Dark Disabled Stories in Damrosch Park (and waited around afterwards to shake his…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
minor.ity " 19 April 2025 minor.ity begins with a Senegalese storyteller (Ato Essanndoh) inviting the audience into a tale he's going to tell. He pulls back the curtain to a modern-day story…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. " 12 April 2025 The Public Theater's presentation of four of Caryl Churchill's short works carefully curated into one production baring all of their names …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2025
Featured Production: Othello " 6 April 2025 Stunt casting has been a part of Broadway for generations, and this 2024-2025 season is no exception. On the surface, it seems like a good idea. I…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:02PM[SHARE]Old Friends " 10 April 2025 As theatre revues go, Old Friends is absolutely unique in a number of ways. The most distinct (and most amazing) is that it's not just a couple of talented …
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