Saturday, February 3, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderA theatrical documentarian gets pulled into his own subject in The Undertaking, now at 59E59 Theaters.After working on various projects for the investigative t…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:38AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderIf "sleep is freedom", as one character points out in Enda Walsh's Ballyturk, then it follows that ignorance is bliss and knowledge offers an awareness that can be …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:16PMFriday, December 29, 2017
Reviewed by Judd Hollander"I don't know how to want less", exclaims Hazel (Deborah Findlay) in Lucy Kirkwood's dystopian drama The Children. This Londontransfer currently having its North Am…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:24PMFriday, December 22, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderEach person’s life touches others, often in the most unexpected ways. It’s a lesson learned by George Bailey in the 1946 film “It’s A Wonderful Life", and g…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:06PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderJust because one person has an opinion of how they stand in a cultural context, doesn't mean people with different social perspectives share that same opinion. This…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:54PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderFor the record, the Grinch did not pat Cindy Lou Who on the butt during that long ago Christmas Eve, nor was she possibly three years old at the time the two first …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMThursday, November 23, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderBilly Crudup gives a powerful performance in David Cale's Harry Clarke. A one-man play about the realizations and pitfalls that come with self-discovery, now at the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMSunday, November 12, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe birth pangs of the New York Shakespeare Festival, particularly its conflicts with the New York City Parks Department and city planner Robert Moses are the stuff…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:04PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderSatire may be what closes on Saturday night, as playwright George S. Kaufman once said, but that was certainly not the case for the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical O…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:36AMSunday, October 29, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe breakdown of the status quo can be tough on those who've lived by it for so long. An issue Brian Friel examines in his 2005 dramaThe Home Place. The work having…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:24AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderElevator Repair Service, known for taking literary classics and adapting them to the stage - with results ranging from somewhat interesting to completely astonishin…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54PMFriday, October 6, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderOne of the more provocative dramas to hit the Off-Broadway stage in recent years is the U.K. import, A Clockwork Orange. A transfer of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:48PMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe subtext to the question "when did you grow up" is "when did you stop being a child"? A question explored in Sarah Ruhl’s bittersweet drama For Peter Pan …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:54PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderWhat if you knew exactly how your life was going to turn out, and there was absolutely nothing you could do to change it? One woman finds herself in exactly that si…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:18AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe Public Theater pulls out all the stops with its eye-catching presentation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Delacorte Theater in Central …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:42PMSunday, July 30, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe theatrical group Improbable takes a look at the struggle to understand the human condition, as well as its strengths, weaknesses and limits in Opening Skinner's…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48AMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe world has long had a morbid fascination with those who try to kill public figures, while at the same time trying to understand what makes them tick. These eleme…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:36PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderWhat you sew, so shall you eventually reap. A warning that could easily apply to William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, currently being given an enjoyable …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:18AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderFew plays are as consistently topical as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Offering a forceful lesson on the perils of blind ambition, the show is being p…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:33PMReviewed by Judd HollanderFew plays are as consistently topical as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Offering a forceful lesson on the perils of blind ambition, the show is being p…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderRed Bull Theater forgoes any kind of subtlety and nuance in presenting The Government Inspector. Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Nikolai Gogol's 1836 work Revizor, …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:12PMThursday, June 1, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderA subtitle for The Whirligig, the new drama by Hamish Linklater, could very well be "Six Degrees of Separation Lite". Presented by The New Group and currently …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderPlaywright Enda Walsh examines those caught up in situations of oppression and loneliness with his works Arlington and Rooms. Vastly different in the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:06AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Reviewed by Judd Hollander Denial becomes a powerful weapon of survival in the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. The show running through May 28 at Th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:05PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderBefore taking their seats in the Darryl Roth Theatre, audience members come face-to-face with a wall of cards. The different offerings listing various life choices.…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderIllicit liquor flowing by the barrel, gangsters who won't stay dead after being shot, high society folks with low moral standards, tap dancing cops with machine gun…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:32PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderLewis Carroll once wrote that the time has come to talk of many things. In what might be described as an ominous allegory with elements of pitch-black comedy, Caryl…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:03AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThere's a moment in Martin McDonagh's pitch-black comedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane where the entire audience gasps over a certain character's actions. It's a soun…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:42AMSunday, November 27, 2016
Reviewed by Judd HollanderYou come into the Westside Theatre on a Monday evening and see a set consisting of a table, on which have been placed with two glasses of what appears to be water, …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36AMSunday, November 20, 2016
Reviewed by JUDD HOLLANDERIt's a tough job to transfer an acclaimed movie to the stage, but playwright Tom Schulman gets it right with the stage version of Dead Poets Society, based on his 1…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:48PMSunday, November 6, 2016
Reviewed by Judd HollanderAn ever-changing landscape of the mind and one who is powerless to correct what is happening. These are some of the images, thoughts and feeling that come from the …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:48AM 
