Friday, May 18, 2018
Unfortunately, the members of this ensemble seem as if they re acting in different plays.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:24PMThursday, April 26, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Tony Kushner’s two-part mega-drama is high art, but with plenty of sex, laughs and thrills throughout.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:12AMAt 81, Glenda Jackson still performs with breathtaking bite and vitality.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:12AMBernadette Peters works her magic in the revival of this joy-stuffed classic.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:12AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Steve Martin’s zestless couples comedy is high on wackiness but low on laughs.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:48PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
A play about greed and scandal in Washington comes across as flat and uninspired.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:33PMFriday, November 3, 2017
While entertaining, Junk is packed with a lot of trader jargon, greed and testosterone that you may feel like you ve seen before.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:05AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
While it may not be high on drama, an evening with the Boss is always special.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:48PMFriday, September 29, 2017
John Doyle’s production conjures the sense of being a child at play in a forest of wondrous words.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:33PMThursday, September 7, 2017
This greatest-hits revue celebrates the work of Harold Prince in the least interesting way.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:04AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Michael Moore encourages the audience to do something – other than tweeting – to unseat our loathsome president.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:48PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Sam Gold’s staging is unique, eloquent and at times very funny.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Lucas Hnath picks up where Henrik Ibsen left off in 1879.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:06PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
The tone of this musical adaption is gratingly cartoonish, replacing the dry whimsy of the movie with overwrought clownishness.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:06PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Kevin Kline and Noël Coward’s should really get together more often.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:42PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Adaptation is an ancient and noble art, but some things simply work better on film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s swoony-cartoony movie, with its saturated reds and greens, manic angles and surreal…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:29PMMonday, March 13, 2017
When Sam Gold’s production is viewed as a counter-interpretation, the friction it creates is fascinating.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:06PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal leads an exquisite group of actors in this superb revival.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:04PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Now 34 years old, the musical’s art-world satire still cuts and its emotional climax still brings tears. It began Sondheim’s late (and, arguably, most unguarded and daring) period, inclu…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:51PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Long overdue on Broadway, Jitney is a soul-sustaining, symphonic piece by a late, great master of language.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:42AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Tantalizingly, the first half of Beauty Queen is almost a pared-down Celtic riff on The Glass Menagerie: overbearing mother, daughter with mental problems, a gentleman caller (Marty Rea) who…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:34AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
If Cate Blanchett weren t in this production, few people would be going to see it.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:54PMThursday, November 17, 2016
Dave Malloy has put together one of the most original new musicals Broadway has seen this decade.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:54PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Simon Stephen’s drama begins with an intriguing premise but offers little to back it up.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:54PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
This fast-paced production is bursting at the seams with acting talent.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:42PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Closing one’s eyes in the theater can be a sign of boredom or exhaustion. But shutting the peepers at Simon McBurney’s utterly transfixing mind-tickler The Encounter is a valid expressio…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:14AMThursday, September 8, 2016
You’re over Hamilton: We get it. After hysterical reviews, obscene ticket prices and all the awards ever, enough is enough. The media coverage has grown so predictable, the hype is so perv…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:39PMFriday, August 26, 2016
From Thou Shalt Not to Amazing Grace, 20 of the absolute stinkiest flops the Great White Way has seen since 2000
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:21PMSaturday, August 6, 2016
According to reports at Playbill and Curbed New York, construction workers at the Times Square Toys R Us located at Broadway and 44th Street have unearthed the 121-year-old remains of the en…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:53AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Bad-history plays are a thing now. By “bad” I don’t mean poorly researched, but ones incongruously reframed for comic or deconstructive effect (Drunk History, but arty). Out with perio…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:02PM 
