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Extremely 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 08:00PMThere'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 08:30PMEboni 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 09:30PMDirector Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMComer’s astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:24PMThis 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 10:00PMThis 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 09:46PMIn 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 09:00PMA 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 09:00PMSuzan-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 07:00PMA chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMExistential 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 09:30PMChekhov’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 08:00PMA 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 02:21PMA 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 10:00PMSharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom — with laugh lines for Nathan Lane — and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:30PMRiffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:36PMThanks to superlative casting (including Daniel Radcliffe) and canny direction, this elegant, emotionally searching production may be the finest 'Merrily' you’ll ever see.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMThis sloppy Broadway embrace of Neil Diamond is a jukebox musical in search of a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:38AMNew York theater rolls into fall again with a packed schedule of Broadway, off-Broadway, and experimental theater.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:51AMAt Park Avenue Armory, writer-director Robert Icke transforms Greek tragedy 'Oresteia' for a more postmodern audience.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:08PMThe bestselling novel 'The Kite Runner' has been adapted marvelously for screen and now for stage yet a weak adaptation does it no justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:02PMShakespeare adaptations come with a certain pressure, with some more successful than others. ‘Richard III’ struggles to make the cut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:45PMRevivals of Sondheim can be mixed business due to the pressure of his legacy yet some revivals. 'Into the Woods' does his legacy justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:47PMRobert Icke's production of 'Hamlet' at Park Avenue Armory is nearly four hours and it's mostly Hamlet throwing a weird little fit.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AMAn excellent cast with a so-so story, 'Epiphany' has great moments that don’t quite come together, but could appeal to some.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:39PMThe combined genius of Sarah Silverman, Joshua Harmon, and the late Adam Schlesinger brings you back to childhood at Atlantic Theater..
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:58PMPlaywright James Ijames adapts Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' to modern North Carolina following the drama of a family-owned BBQ restaurant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMAn ambitious play, 'Golden Shield' attempts to weave Chinese censorship law, political dissidence, and family drama, to varying success.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:25AMAt Pershing Square Signature Theatre, 'A Case for the Existence of God' takes a direct look at the lives of seemingly very different men.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:42AMAt Longacre Theatre featuring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, director Sam Gold takes on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Incoherent yet star-studded.
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