Friday, August 11, 2023
The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie’s three main actors, including Shaw’s father, Robert Shaw.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, July 21, 2023
Monday, June 26, 2023
Helen Shaw reviews Robert Icke’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, starring Juliet Stevenson as a doctor who is a target of anti-Semitism and language policing.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMMonday, June 19, 2023
“Operation Mincemeat,” “Guys and Dolls,” and “The Motive and the Cue” gallop into the past.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMMonday, June 5, 2023
James Grissom says that he met the playwright and his famous muses, and quoted them extensively in his work. Not everyone believes him.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, May 12, 2023
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s “Here Lies Love” on Broadway, Ato Blankson-Wood’s “Hamlet” in the Park, Robert Icke’s “The Doctor,” and more.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMSunday, April 16, 2023
In a new production of “Camelot,” reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, Arthur is more perfect than ever. But this iteration of the hero’s kingdom isn’t worthy of…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi’s “Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and Michael R. Jackson’s “White Girl in Danger.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThursday, March 30, 2023
Sondheim’s music and lyrics gleam as bright as ever, even when the production loses its edge.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThursday, March 16, 2023
Ben Platt stars as the doomed Leo Frank in Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s all too relevant musical tragedy.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:00PMThursday, March 9, 2023
Jamie Lloyd’s ascetic production of Ibsen’s 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 08:30PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein rely on shtick in Sharr White’s adaptation of Larry Sultan’s book, while Norbert Leo Butz can’t save the musical “Cornelia Street.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, February 10, 2023
The actor, a fixture of New York’s experimental-theatre scene, did not “become” his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:21PMFriday, January 27, 2023
In “Small Talk,” “Without You,” and “cryptochrome,” Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Recent shows’ visions of the future haven’t exactly been post-apocalyptic, with the violence and darkness that term implies. Instead, they have delighted in our disappearance, savored it.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, January 6, 2023
Sunday, December 18, 2022
The playwright and author discusses preshow rituals, throbbing anger, tenderness, and her new play, “Becky Nurse of Salem.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Friday, December 2, 2022
Monday, November 21, 2022
Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Mia Chung’s drama, by turns comedic, bitter, and ineffable, shows how racism soaks through an American family.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00PMMonday, October 31, 2022
In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:09PMSaturday, October 22, 2022
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 07:01PMFriday, October 21, 2022
The director Kenny Leon puts a realistic spin on Suzan-Lori Parks’s allegorical tour de force.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, October 14, 2022
LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs a stunning encore of August Wilson’s most enigmatic work.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Thursday, October 6, 2022
A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright’s own ghosts.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThursday, September 22, 2022
David Greenspan turns Gertrude Stein’s “Four Saints in Three Acts” into a solo tour de force.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Mad kings and shadow puppets feature in the experimental-theatre pieces “My Onliness” and “This and That.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:27PMThursday, September 1, 2022
“As You Like It” brings music, high jinks, and community to Shakespeare’s sometimes resistant comedy.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:00AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
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 
