Thursday, November 2, 2023
This tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSunday, October 29, 2023
This portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMMonday, October 23, 2023
The one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim’s final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:39PMThursday, October 12, 2023
It the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
The Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O’Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:13PMThursday, September 28, 2023
In no way does Etheridge reinvent the solo theatrical memoir. But she performs with a natural ease, like your wild aunt telling stories over beers one Thanksgiving.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
At the center of a prodigious cast and Kenny Leon’s clockwork staging are Leslie Odom Jr. and the astonishing Kara Young.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, September 17, 2023
Playwright Rebecca Gilman's keenly observed drama arrives Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre for a limited run.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The most satisfying new work since last season’s 'Downstate' has an obscenely gifted cast, led by Christina Kirk.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMFriday, September 1, 2023
Experiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:43AMThursday, August 17, 2023
What’s gained by staging Chekhov in the round, with actors just feet away, sometimes lit only by a candle? It’s what you’d expect: a wonderfully intense experience of the text.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, August 10, 2023
Robert Shaw's son Ian cowrote this behind the scenes look at the filming of 'Jaws,' and plays his father.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThursday, August 3, 2023
This Broadway adaptation of the 1985 movie has some four-wheeled spectacle to offer. But not much else.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Singing! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon's direction of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMMonday, June 26, 2023
In this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about “the way the world is right now."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
This family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick tha…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMExtremely loud and incredibly verbose: a new play from Robert Icke forgoes the subtleties of showing for too much telling.
Juliet Stevenson as Ruth Wolff and Juliet Garricks as Charlie in T…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 1, 2023
There's a point here — men do terrible things and the universe will have revenge — but it's buried in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:30PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Eboni Booth’s portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater’s elemental storytelling powers. And make you cry.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMMonday, May 22, 2023
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Comer’s astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:24PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons—from Monty Python to Might…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, April 16, 2023
This revival — with a new book by Aaron Sorkin — is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
In this — wait for it — corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThursday, March 23, 2023
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it’s TikTok meets gr…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMThursday, March 9, 2023
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, March 5, 2023
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Chekhov’s 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover — those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:21PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PM 
