Thursday, April 9, 2026
One man and his family are caught up in the pressures and delusions of living the American Dream. Miller’s play is the story of a traveling salesman whose illusions of picture-perfect busi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:14PMMantello has leaned into the play’s sense of abstraction — Willy often loses himself in his own mind — which has the effect of emphasizing both its timelessness and its timeliness. (Mi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:13PMAnd yet, I was ultimately unmoved. Why? In sitting uncertainly between total adornment and its weighted ideas of temporal displacement, the production had never quite gotten me there. This S…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:13PMFrom the breathtaking opening scene when a car drives onstage, its bright headlights shining into the audience, to the moment it backs out of Chloe Lamford’s astonishing set, this Salesman…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:13PMA worthwhile revival will always give you the feeling — even more significant than re-seeing an astonishing play — of truly hearing it, and that’s what happens here. Again and again, a…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMDown to the smallest roles, this production is astutely cast, and its arresting design elements add a suitably shabby grandeur to the play’s unsparing view of America’s broken promises. …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMBut first and last, Salesman is Willy’s story, and generation after Broadway generation has thrown its best into the role, from Lee J. Cobb, Fredric March (in the 1951 film), George C. Sco…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMThe newest Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s storied play (directed by Joe Mantello) has lost none of its power in the tale of a man fighting the demons of his past while also struggl…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMAs with his direction of the actors, however, Mantello likes to pour it on gooey. Each act is introduced with Caroline Shaw’s overly somber music, reaching for but failing to achieve Phili…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMWhat’s most striking is the musicality of his voice. This isn’t a musical, and yet it often feels like one when he speaks. Lane shapes Miller’s language as if he’s singing it, or del…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMTuesday, April 7, 2026
COME ONE, COME ALL – The Jellicle Cats are having a BALL. Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s worldwide phenomenon CATS is reimagined in …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMIf you’re lucky enough to have a knowledgeable and prepared audience around you, the atmosphere at the ball crackles — literally. Those sitting close, at the set’s little bar tables, e…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:04PMIt works. It works because the ballroom setting lends weight and specificity to a narrative world that previously felt airless, abstract to the point of nothingness. It works because Webber�…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:04PMThis is a culture steeped in tradition and history. The chosen family is its bedrock, and elders hold a place of high esteem, though there are too few. This is not the story about queer peop…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:04PMWhat wasn’t preordained is just how beautifully executed the entire venture turns out to be. You’d have to be a real stickler for tradition to begrudge Jellicle Ball its innovations, and…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PMBroadway is burning — and that’s something to celebrate. “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” a refreshed version of the downtown 2024 hit, blazes anew, having made the trek uptown with its ex…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PMThe production makes a thrilling number of choices to update and revise and comment on the bizarre musical entity borne of a posh Brit’s love of T.S. Eliot’s poems for children, but it r…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PMThrough it all, there’s a euphoric energy pulsing through the theater, manifesting in several moving ways. Quiet weeping, dropped jaws, fervent applause and the occasional attendee literal…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PM“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” is overflowing with so much unbridled joy that you may sometimes catch yourself shedding tears, for no other reason than you simply don’t want it to end. It�…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PMWithout fail, the best Broadway shows are the off-the-charts inventive ones that could not have possibly originated anywhere else but the five boroughs. This season, that’s “The Jellicle…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:03PMMonday, April 6, 2026
A blind date spirals spectacularly off the rails in Becky Shaw, the razor-sharp dark comedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo. When it made its New York premiere Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:05PMThese characters aren’t likable at all. Yet they do the job so well, we don’t need them to be.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:04PMSecond Stage, which produced its off-Broadway premiere, has brought it back for a Broadway premiere that’s damn near perfect. Directed by Trip Cullman with a dynamism that perfectly matche…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:04PMIt’s Gina Gionfriddo’s iron guts that make an incisive, observant, scathing, and hilarious play like Becky Shaw possible.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:04PMSeventeen years after being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Gina Gionfriddo’s dark, sometimes giddy comedy Becky Shaw finally arrives on Broadway, and noting that it was worth the wait is …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMEhrenreich delivers an astonishing Broadway debut. He’s a raging, roiling alpha — a successful money manager who wields words like a battering ram, never happier than when he’s engaged…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMAnd in a moment when so much theater puts on kid gloves to handle its material and its audience, it can be bracing to have a play walk right up and slap you across the face. That’s how Tri…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMThat the show can’t sustain this charge through its erratic second act is more a book issue than performance. The aftermath of Becky and Max’s (unseen) date are downstream conversations …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMEhrenreich, a major talent who’s been dealt an unfair hand by Hollywood, is given the meatiest material of the cast. But the unique charm and liveliness he brings to it is vital. His idios…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMOn the merit of its script alone, Becky Shaw is a rousing success. Not only is it deliciously, darkly hilarious, it’s excitingly clever in its simplicity. Arguably, not much happens onstag…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:03PMTuesday, March 31, 2026
Step back into the sweltering summer of 1972, New York City—a time when the Vietnam War looms large, Watergate headlines flood the news, and one man’s desperate act captivates the nation…
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