Many of the productions of the past year were tinged with a political aura.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:42PMThe Moonlight writer offers a big-hearted portrait of young African Americans navigating class and sexual differences in private school.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:36PMAaron Sorkin has left his fingerprints all over this stage adaptation, to mixed results.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:36PM'Clueless, The Musical' hoped we’d care enough about the heroine, Cher, to overlook its synthetic tackiness.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMDespite great acting, this techno-savvy adaptation is strangely out of step with some of the more searing themes in the original film.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:36PM'The Cher Show’ is a sequined Wikipedia entry with karaoke breaks.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01AM'When you’re starting out in New York, you have to grab them by the balls and make them hear you.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AM“We tamed the beast—you and I—we brought him to this city,” crows Carl Denham, the filmmaker and impresario in the new Broadway musical “King Kong.” The production’s beast tame…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 08:00AM'The Prom' may be a candy-colored pop musical, but in a Broadway season dominated by atrocities like 'King Kong' and 'Pretty Woman,' it's a winner.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMAlthough Christopher Demos-Brown s play covers important issues of race, the story and characters are two-dimensional.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:06PMMCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh’s 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThe whiskey flows, rainbows are spotted, tall tales are told and Irish dancing breaks out over dinner.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:04AMBackstage, they apparently call it 'Woke-lahoma!'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:31PMDylan songs sprinkle 'Girl From the North Country.' So do clichés.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMA swashbuckling Janet McTeer plays idolized French actress Sarah Bernhardt in a play about her shocking 1899 depiction of Hamlet.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMA hybrid theater-video installation by Rob Roth, 'Soundstage' casts Rebecca Hall as the archetype of a 'strong female lead,' and the object of obsession for Roth's reclusive protagonist.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMFrom 'The Cher Show' to productions featuring Bryan Cranston and Snoop Dogg, our picks for what will be this fall's 'Hamilton.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:21PMPretty Woman — the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster and now the glitzy, pop-scored Broadway spectacle — is a story of mutual transformation. In this sentimental and consumerist riff on George …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:26PMHaving sat through the sweaty, janky garbage fire Gettin’ the Band Back Together, I strongly suspect that producer and book writer Ken Davenport has a chest tattoo that reads (in Gothic sc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:06PMIt's kind-of like the Broadway version of Nickelback.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PM'Be More Chill' lacks the yearning and pain of 'Dear Evan Hansen,' the whip-smart satire of 'Mean Girls,' and has a generic score. Why do people love it?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMYoung Jean Lee s well-executed new work is both political satire and a philosophical study of human limitations.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:32PMThis Broadway debut reveals Young Jean Lee as one of our boldest living playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMIt has greed, sex addiction, blackmail and craven excuses for Nazis…no cultural relevance to see here!
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:30PMIn his latest play you can't help but wonder, what happened to the bad boy Tracy Letts of yesteryear?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThis may be Carey Mulligan's toughest role—certainly the most demanding and intense.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMBend over, Eddie, and take it like a man.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:15PMAlthough this is a period piece, this play reverberates with the zesty camaraderie that gay men can openly enjoy today.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:12PMAlan Ayckbourn’s new comedy-drama sketches a portrait of a man across seven decades.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:18PMHenry James would find the nearest string of pearls and clutch them if he saw what’s been done to his 1903 novella 'The Beast in the Jungle.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:30PMUnfortunately, the members of this ensemble seem as if they re acting in different plays.
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