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Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Boys in the Band: Turning, Turning, Turning by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Mart Crowley's 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we've come, is as indelible as ever—and as confounding The post The Boys in the Band: Turning, Turning, Tu…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:20PM
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Beast in the Jungle: Lovely Poetry, Lousy Prose by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ John Kander's score and Susan Stroman's choreography soar; the play does not The post The Beast in the Jungle: Lovely Poetry, Lousy Prose appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:21PM
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Travesties: A Good Great War, Over Art and Revolution by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Tom Stoppard's early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout The post Travesties: A Good Great War, Over Art and Revolution appeared first on New York…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Monday, April 23, 2018

Summer: She Works Hard for the Money, Less Hard for the Story by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo, with three Donnas and an all-woman chorus, put on an entertaining, confounding biomusical The post Summer: She Works Hard for the Money, Less Hard …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:16PM

Transfers: Who Gets In, and Who Belongs? by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ In Lucy Thurber's look at college admissions and social class, the hard-working students don't get what they deserve The post Transfers: Who Gets In, and Who Belongs? appeared firs…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Children of a Lesser God: The Great White Nope by Jesse Oxfeld

★★ Lauren Ridloff is terrific in the role Marlee Matlin made famous, but that doesn't save this horribly dated play The post Children of a Lesser God: The Great White Nope appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PM
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Mean Girls: Fey’s Film Is Very Fetch on Broadway by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Director-choreography Casey Nicholaw has fun playing with the Plastics — but why's it all so white and straight? The post Mean Girls: Fey’s Film Is Very Fetch on Broadwa…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:38PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Bobbie Clearly: A Portrait of a Crime, Not so Clearly by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Something terrible has happened in corn country, but the young author of this spiky play doesn't quite unpack it The post Bobbie Clearly: A Portrait of a Crime, Not so Clearly appe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:59PM
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Frozen: That Old Disney Magic, This Time on Ice by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ A solid Frozen delivers the key moments and some strong performances, but it never truly lets go.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Escape to Margaritaville: This Concoction Barely Hangs On by Jesse Oxfeld

★★ The Jimmy Buffett musical, a paean to chilling out, has good songs, a talented cast, and takes itself way too seriously.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

How Cats Set the Stage for the Modern Mega-Musical | Cats Broadway Review by Jesse Oxfeld

Cats just re-opened on Broadway. Does the feline fantasy have what it takes for another 18-year run?

SOURCE: www.townandcountrymag.com at 06:43AM
Friday, May 27, 2016

Paramour: EW Stage Review | EW.com by Jesse Oxfeld

About 45 minutes into Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil musical that opens at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre tonight, the twin aerialists Andrew and Kevin Atherton are suspended over a stage set of…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 06:18AM
Monday, December 7, 2015

School of Rock: EW stage review by Jesse Oxfeld

There is tremendous amount of talent, and a long list of credits, behind School of Rock, the Broadway musical of version of the 2003 Jack Black comedy. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. D…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:19AM
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Michael Riedel’s ‘Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway’ by Jesse Oxfeld

A rollicking, authoritative and valuable history of Broadway.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:46PM
Friday, November 6, 2015

'On Your Feet!': EW stage review | EW.com by Jesse Oxfeld

The bad (and frankly a little surprising) news about On Your Feet, the new musical by, about, and featuring the songs of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is that at no point through its nearly two…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:50PM
Thursday, October 8, 2015

'Barbecue': Theater Review by Jesse Oxfeld

Playwright Robert O'Hara considers how family stereotypes and racial politics clash with reality during a raucous drug intervention in this Public Theater premiere.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Monday, October 5, 2015

'Cloud Nine': Theater Review by Jesse Oxfeld

The Atlantic Theater Company stages the first major New York revival of Caryl Churchill's landmark 1979 comedy about gender politics and sexual identity.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

'John': Theater Review by Jesse Oxfeld

Christopher Abbott, Georgia Engel and Lois Smith star in this contemplative new work by Annie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind 'The Flick.'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Monday, May 25, 2015
Friday, March 14, 2014

Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Theater Plays & Musicals by Jesse Oxfeld

'If/Then' Mothers and SonsGolden TheatreOpens March 24Terrence McNally’s latest stars the indefatigable Tyne Daly as a mother who pays an unexpected visit to her dead son’s former partne…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AM
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

And the Prize Goes to the Puppet: ‘All the Way’ Is Riveting, and the Directorial Vision Behind ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Is Brilliant by Jesse Oxfeld

Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) The curse, and the blessing, of an initials-based moniker is that those simple, monosyllabic sounds rhyme with so much. There’s “H…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PM
Friday, March 7, 2014

He Said, She Said: ‘The Open House’ Has a Bullying Dad, ‘Stage Kiss’ Follows a Quirky Couple, ‘Arlington’ Is a Musical Monologue by Jesse Oxfeld

Lauren Valez and Anthony Chisholm in 'The Happiest Song Plays Last.' In early 2012, Quiara Alegría Hudes won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. A year later, her prize-winning work, Water By the…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:48PM
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Movie Stars Lighting Up the Great White Way | The New York Observer by Jesse Oxfeld

You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:25PM
Friday, February 21, 2014

The Stars in Broadway’s Firmament: Movie Stars Lighting Up the Great White Way by Jesse Oxfeld

You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Tough Love: Almost, Maine’s Small-Town Love Stories Are Cheesy and Charming by Jesse Oxfeld

'Almost, Maine.' If you’re going to object to Almost, Maine—that it’s too saccharine, too sentimental, a little too impressed with its own quirkiness—then its title is as good a plac…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Welcome to the Machine: Machinal Is a Haunting Portrait of Life for Women in the Twenties by Jesse Oxfeld

Frank Langella in 'King Lear.' (Photo by Johan Persson) Ruth Snyder, whom Wikipedia pithily if reductively identifies as “an American murderess,” was electrocuted by the State of New Yor…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:38PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

‘We Really Did Try to Make It’: Beautiful—The Carole King Musical Is Fun, Fluffy, Vacuous by Jesse Oxfeld

The Shirelles in 'Beautiful.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Where you lead, Carole, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to. And if it happens that you lead me to a mediocre bioplay that combin…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:28PM
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

10 Shows to See Right Now by Jesse Oxfeld

'Pippin.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) So, comes the inevitable question when someone learns what I do for a living, what should I see? It depends, I reply with equal inevitability. What do you li…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:37PM

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