Thursday, June 9, 2022
Let’s hope Broadway’s most racially diverse season will be capped by a ceremony that fully celebrates that sea change.
The post 2022 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:28PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Everything about this production is handled with a light, inviting touch.
The post Review: All Wishes Granted at New York City Center’s Revival of <em>Into the Woods</em> appea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:18PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop nudges the musical theater form in a startling new direction.
The post <em>A Strange Loop</em> Review: A Big, Black, and Queer-Ass Revitaliz…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
The omnipresent horror of what we so quickly understand to be happening diminishes the play’s proximity to pleasure more than it should.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, April 14, 2022
By reducing the play’s grandeur to the scope of a lightly staged radio play, words become the principal protagonist.
The post <em>Cyrano de Bergerac</em> Review: A Stripped-Dow…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMMonday, April 11, 2022
In Birthday Candles, tragedy and trauma have been rushed off stage with the ring of another gong and another year gone.
The post <em>Birthday Candles</em> Review: Celebrating a S…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:40AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Tragic timeliness and timelessness doesn’t make up for the scrawniness of Richard Greenberg’s play.
The post <em>Take Me Out</em> Review: The Pride and Prejudice of Major Lea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMFriday, March 25, 2022
Even if Help never entirely sheds its essayistic origins, the premise of finding poetry in personal scholarship is consistently compelling.
The post <em>Help</em> Review: Claudia…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:22PMSaturday, March 5, 2022
The play’s deliberate repetitions reveal how its characters rely upon the rituals they share to make meaning of a fractured world.
The post <em>On Sugarland</em> Review: A Refl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:25PMThursday, February 10, 2022
This slightly zany production sells the show’s intelligent warmth with a persuasiveness to rival Harold Hill himself.
The post <em>The Music Man</em> Review: Till There Was Hug…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:30PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
The show is massively successful at demonstrating that Jackson was an extraordinary artist putting forth extraordinary art.
The post <em>MJ The Musical</em> Review: Broadway’s …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Eugene O’Neill’s play isn’t about all of us, as much as this production might lean into the allure of universality.
The post <em>Long Day’s Journey Into Night</em> Review…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, December 16, 2021
The best theater of 2021 hasn’t just been a treat but a privilege to witness.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:38PMThursday, December 9, 2021
This production squarely delivers as a potent tribute to the words and music of Stephen Sondheim.
The post Review: The Gender-Flipped <em>Company</em> Is an Imperfect but Loving …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, November 4, 2021
The Visitor is ultimately about powerlessness, a fable of despair that illustrates how nothing changes if only one man does.
The post Review: <em>The Visitor</em> Doesn’t Recog…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMFriday, September 24, 2021
The 2021 Tony Awards, honoring the Broadway season that was cut short by the Covid pandemic, are all about memory.
The post 2021 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from <em>Sl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:37PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
If the play’s first half shows America as distilled dystopia, that focus only sharpens after an ambitious structural shift.
The post Love and DREAMing in America: Martyna Majok’s <em&…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:00PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Merry Wives distills what legacy we need most from Shakespeare now and what art we need most from each other.
The post Jacob Ming-Trent Takes Center Stage in Shakespeare in the Park’s <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:43AMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Fruma-Sarah’s slim premise isn’t quite sturdy enough to allow its more substantial aspirations to take flight.
The post Jackie Hoffman Shows Off Her Range in <em>Fruma-Sarah (Waiti…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:34AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
Enemy of the People could do more to challenge the assumption that majority votes work the way they’re supposed to.
The post <em>Enemy of the People</em> Is a Choose-Your-Own-A…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:13PMThursday, April 8, 2021
The phantoms of 2020 resurface with shivery impact throughout.
The post José Saramago’s <em>Blindness</em> Takes on Heightened Meaning in Our Pandemic Age appeared first on Sl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:26PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
The festival is now part-streaming and part-live on a variety of platforms.
The post Under the Radar 2021: <em>A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call</em> and <em>Disclai…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:08PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
With this version of West Side Story, van Hove seems barely interested in the show itself.
The post In Ivo van Hove’s Hands, <em>West Side Story</em>’s Actors Are Mice in a C…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:21PMMonday, February 17, 2020
It’s hard to think of too many other productions that strive to stretch a Shakespeare play so far beyond its natural course.
The post Review: <em>Hamlet</em> at St. Ann’s War…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:54PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Experiencing the festival replaces the usual sense of familiarity with a sense of wonder.
The post Under the Radar 2020: <em>The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes</em>, <em…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:17AMSaturday, December 28, 2019
This was the year of playwrights saying what they mean.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:09AMMonday, December 2, 2019
The Inheritance’s attempt to speak for everyone muddies its ability to speak clearly to anyone.
The post Review: <em>The Inheritance</em> Is a Radical, If Short-Sighted, Take o…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:31AMFriday, November 22, 2019
In the wake of Slave Play, immediate answers might sound neither comforting nor honest.
The post <em>Slave Play</em> Review: A Searing, Satirical Takedown of White Supremacy appe…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:38PMMonday, November 11, 2019
Two twists on the typical range of possibilities for the musical theater writing process are playing out in two recent musicals.
The post Review: <em>Broadbend, Arkansas</em> and…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:28PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
It’s telling that the show gets its biggest laughs only after it’s turned deadly serious.
The post Review: <em>Scotland, PA</em> Finds Its Purpose When It Sticks to the Bard …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:23PMSunday, November 3, 2019
Hamnet Shakespeare, played maturely with a mix of grim optimism and snarky despair by Aran Murphy in his professional debut, has been stuck at eleven for a long, long time.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:09AM 
