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Monday, November 21, 2022

“Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,” a Pitch-Dark Comedy About Municipal Workers on the Brink by Helen Shaw

Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Haunted Houses in “Catch as Catch Can” and “A Delicate Balance” by Helen Shaw

Mia Chung’s drama, by turns comedic, bitter, and ineffable, shows how racism soaks through an American family.

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Monday, October 31, 2022

A “Hamlet” That Isn’t a Bummer by Helen Shaw

In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.

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Saturday, October 22, 2022

“A Little Life” Is a Little Much by Helen Shaw

A stage adaptation, at BAM, crams Hanya Yanagihara’s sprawling novel into a single evening—not without some violence.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 07:01PM
Friday, October 21, 2022

“Topdog/Underdog,” Back on Broadway, Still Has Its Eye on the American Long Con by Helen Shaw

The director Kenny Leon puts a realistic spin on Suzan-Lori Parks’s allegorical tour de force.

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Friday, October 14, 2022

A “Piano Lesson” with No False Notes by Helen Shaw

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs a stunning encore of August Wilson’s most enigmatic work.

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Friday, October 7, 2022

America: Pro or Con? by Helen Shaw

Debate and democracy in “1776” and “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge.”

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 07:40PM
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Tom Stoppard Resurrects the Past in “Leopoldstadt” by Helen Shaw

A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright’s own ghosts.

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

An Actor’s One-Man Apotheosis by Helen Shaw

David Greenspan turns Gertrude Stein’s “Four Saints in Three Acts” into a solo tour de force.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Everything Avant-Garde Is Old Again by Helen Shaw

Mad kings and shadow puppets feature in the experimental-theatre pieces “My Onliness” and “This and That.”

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:27PM
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Folly in the Park by Helen Shaw

“As You Like It” brings music, high jinks, and community to Shakespeare’s sometimes resistant comedy.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:00AM
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Theater Reviews: ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ and ‘English’ by Helen Shaw

In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence’s 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they return to The Daughter-in-Law, a strange and compel…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:30AM
Saturday, December 12, 2020

The Artists vs. the Flea Theater: ‘We Will Burn It All Down’ by Helen Shaw

The downtown theater company is in crisis.

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:39AM
Monday, November 16, 2020

Razzle Dazzle, Part 2: Broadway Triumphs Again by Helen Shaw

Michael Riedel’s “Singular Sensation” tracks the blockbuster successes of the 1990s.

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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Still Aiming to Confound, the Scrappy Brick Turns a Page by Helen Shaw

A new leader is about to take over from the Williamsburg theater’s founders. A festival there now offers a sense of her transgressive, slightly bonkers vision (sour cream included).

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Life Sucks. | The Wild Project | Theater in New York by Helen Shaw

Despite the lack of a samovar and wistful-looking birches, Aaron Posner’s engaging Life Sucks.—the period is part of the title—is closely mapped onto Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. In …

SOURCE: Time Out at 08:39PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka | Playwrights Horizons | Theater in New York by Helen Shaw

Beauty isn’t in the eye of the beholder here. It’s an accepted, incontrovertible truth that Akim is without blemish or fault, which is why vengeful Massassi (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), sw…

SOURCE: Time Out at 11:58AM
Monday, July 30, 2018

Time Out New York review: The House That Will Not Stand by Helen Shaw

Three houses are built into the title of Marcus Gardley’s superheated New Orleans drama The House That Will Not Stand. The first is the sumptuous Creole maison onstage, with high shuttered…

SOURCE: Time Out at 08:39PM
Monday, November 14, 2016

'There's a real humiliation I feel': the struggle for fair wages off-Broadway by Helen Shaw

Despite high ticket prices, many actors are still fighting for pay equity, with negotiations ongoing and some claiming their careers are financially impossibleFor many of us, there’s a tim…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

See it again: Beowulf at Joe's Pub by Helen Shaw

Beowulf gets his epic beef on at Joe's Pub

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Art & Place: We conversate about a Conversation by Helen Shaw

Thoughts about community and theater

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

A playwright speaks! We interview Carly Mensch by Helen Shaw

The playwright of Now Circa Then talks turkey

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Hetero at the Crossing the Line festival by Helen Shaw

Found in translation: a review of Denis Lachaud's Hetero

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Thank you BAM: Reviews of Pina Bausch's Vollmond and Jan Lauwers's The Deer House by Helen Shaw

Vollmond and The Deer House make for a stunning week at BAM

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

News Roundup by Helen Shaw

Bits and bobs from the world of theater

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Review: (oh my god I am so) THIRST(y) by Helen Shaw

Little Lord's O'Neill leaves us a little parched

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Review: Metamorphosis by Helen Shaw

Review of an Icelandic Metamorphosis at BAM

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Suffrage not in silence: Gender parity symposium this weekend by Helen Shaw

Gender equity in theater on the docket

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

Critic's Picks: Helen Shaw by Helen Shaw

Helen Shaw plans your theatergoing weekend

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Critic's Pick: Helen Shaw by Helen Shaw

The weather is frightful, this show is delightful

SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime