Friday, March 7, 2025
Playwright Abe Koogler's portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that's a tasting menu of acting brilliance.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:30PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Broadway has George Clooney and two different shows based on TV series. Downtown has space travel and T.S. Eliot. Brooklyn has Chekhov and an ant invasion. This theater season, there's somet…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:59PMMonday, February 24, 2025
This two-hander about estranged half-brothers with a dying mother is painfully gorgeous.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMMonday, February 10, 2025
Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:01PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMThursday, January 23, 2025
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and frequently funny masterpiece of music-t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Audra McDonald is the first Black actress to play Madame Rose on Broadway, and she and director George C. Wolfe deliver what may be the most heartstopping 'Gypsy' you’ll ever see.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:01AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Jonathan Spector’s play, about vaccine politics splintering a school board, is one big Learning Moment that pretty much everyone fails.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMFriday, November 15, 2024
The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:37PMMonday, November 11, 2024
This absurdist comedy—the final production to run at Soho Rep—has a hallucinogenic plot that brings to mind the days when artistic risk was the norm and downtown performance art was in h…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Set about 15 years from now, this future fable takes place in and around a shipping center in Wyoming as rising sea levels are swallowing American states east and west.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Characters vape, gender is fluid, desire bi, and death assured in director Sam Gold's hyperpop reimagining of 'Romeo + Juliet.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00PMSunday, October 20, 2024
This revival of the 1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is full of modern eye-candy and a few surprises. Among them, how Nicole Scherzinger commands her scenes in her Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThursday, October 10, 2024
It’s hard to tell what’s real in Ayad Akhtar’s play starring Robert Downey Jr. as an alcoholic novelist who turns to AI.
Robert Downey Jr. as Jacob McNeal (right) and cast of McNeal. …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMSunday, September 29, 2024
An excellent cast and direction from Sam Mendes keep the action driving in this nearly three hour family drama from playwright Jez Butterworth.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:01PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Now 42 years old, the Forbidden Broadway franchise remains Mad Magazine with jazz hands, and the latest edition, 'Merrily We Stole a Song,' features a cast of wildly talented mimics skewerin…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:23PMMonday, September 9, 2024
A couple gropes toward honesty and clarity about how they drifted apart in this fast-moving comic showcase.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:28PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Women are center stage this fall in shows that highlight reproductive rights, consent and motherhood or showcase a powerful female lead. It can’t possibly have anything to do with a certai…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMThursday, August 1, 2024
This Choose Your Own Adventure fable about American innovation and greed fills six floors and 100,000 square feet, with 24 characters and enough plot lines to drive an HBO season.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
It's Boomer versus Millennial in this one-act play that involves a gun, life online, and a therapist who's both hostage and hostage negotiator.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Cole Escola plays Mary Todd Lincoln in drag in this delightfully campy queer romp, which has moved uptown to goose a sleepy Broadway summer.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:31PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Sandra Oh leads a talented cast in this Lucy Kirkwood play—set in 18th century England—that's both a murder mystery and an exploration of the moral rot of misogyny.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31PMThursday, June 6, 2024
This rollicking memory play treats one man's life as an epic journey, and this production—starring Tory Kittles, Brittany Inge and Stori Ayers—is epic indeed.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:11PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
A talented cast outshines the material in this examination of a war correspondent's trauma and the ethics of journalism.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:00PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
This rock musical begins in glorious dive-bar grunge mode, and Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones radiate so much charisma you may not care if the story feels a little generic.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMMonday, May 20, 2024
Dave Malloy juggles book, music, lyrics, and orchestrations in this musical triptych about Covid Times. The score is entertainingly eclectic, but the dramatic tension and character developme…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMMonday, May 13, 2024
This interview-based docu-play revolves around a mysterious photo album donated to the Holocaust Museum that showed the lives of those running Auschwitz.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:53PMMonday, April 29, 2024
It’s hard to describe exactly what happens in this show. Scenes zig and zag in dream logic. But the acting and staging are impeccable. Book a table now.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00AM 
