Saturday, January 24, 2026
The tension between the simple and the intricate runs throughout this year's work.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
In one way or another, the shows on this list were high-risk endeavors that gloriously paid off.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
If the pieces of The Queen of Versailles aren't cohesive, Kristin Chenoweth's performance is.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:59PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Masquerade offers a refreshingly vibrant music of the night.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
The Bill & Ted buddies have a tender rapport Jamie Lloyd's revival.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
This revival makes it hard to imagine its characters loving any version of each other.
The post 'Art' Review: The Fragile Bonds of Friendship appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
The show has retained its frivolousness but not its sense of surprise.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The play seems designed to attract the same Daily Mail headlines that plague its characters.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Smart massages her character's bumpy edges into a recognizable whole human being.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
A jovial, almost folksy John Krasinski stars in Penelope Skinner's tricksy new play.
The post 'Angry Alan' Review: A Perversely Pleasurable Journey into the Manosphere appeared first on Slan…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
This season's biggest surprise and delight is poised to make a clean sweep.
The post 2025 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Purpose' appeared first on…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
The First Shadow feels like a dim approximation of what makes the Netflix series so special.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:59PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
Boop! earns the confetti cannon that goes off in the show's final moments.
The post 'Boop! The Musical' Review: A Maximalist Goof-Fest with a Century-Long Backstory appeared first on Slant M…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
The only variety here is in the velocity and volume of the men's anger.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2025
The silliness sticks more than the pathos in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The post Frivolity Revs Up on Broadway: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'Operation Mincemeat' appeared first on Slan…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Is this the underwhelming Kit Kat Club all over again? Well, yes and no.
The post 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Review: Rebecca Frecknall's Self-Consciously Thundering Revival appeared first on…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Menzel has range, but her character doesn't, and that's Redwood's chief failure.
The post 'Redwood' Review: Idina Menzel Soars in Musical That Can't Find the Forest for the Trees appeared fi…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2025
In the last two years, the festival's programming has grown riskier and more boundary-crossing.
The post Under the Radar 2025 appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The theater pieces that resonated most this year were stories of communal, collective healing.
The post The Best Theater of 2024 appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen turn the slightest of touches into electric connection.
The post 'Maybe Happy Ending' Review: Robot Love appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor's casting will persuade their fans that this story is dope AF.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Sunset Boulevard's heavy bones drag behind Jamie Lloyd's austere vision like a body bag.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
The unendurable passage of time haunts both plays.
The post The Past Is Always Present: 'The Hills of California' and 'Our Town' on Broadway appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
Not knowing what's real and what's not is less compelling than McNeal contends.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
At its funniest, The Roommate is a comedy of manners, an unapologetic throwback.
The post 'The Roommate' Review: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in an Uneven Comedy of Manners appeared first on …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
If the show isn't just riotously funny but whipsmart and lovely, too, so are its new stars.
The post 'Once Upon a Mattress' Review: A Quick-Witted, Big-Hearted Gem Returns to Broadway appear…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
With Life and Trust, Emursive has opted wisely for mood over minutiae.
The post 'Life and Trust' Review: Faustian Bargains appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Job preserves an unsettling undercurrent, despite its ridiculous premise.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
Despite the 12 Angry Men-like setup, there's nothing anonymous about the women here.
The post <em>The Welkin</em> Review: Twelve Women Anatomize a Murder in 18th-Century England …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2024
There are at least four celebrated contenders vying, all equally convincingly, for the top prize.
The post 2024 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from <em>Sterophonic</em&…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Each play poeticizes the cradle-to-near-grave journey of so-called ordinary American lives.
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