Friday, May 3, 2019
Dave Malloy, the “Great Comet” composer, unpacks three songs from “Octet,” his (yes) a cappella musical about digital addiction.
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The Winter Garden, New York
A stage transfer for the spirited 80s comedy struggles to produce any memorable songs but provides an enjoyably silly night out nonetheless
A specter is haunting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The Marquis Theatre, New York
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Santino Fontana gives a charming performance as a man dressing up as a woman to get ahead
What if all that stood between you and succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMMonday, April 22, 2019
The American Airlines Theatre, New York
Thrilling, note perfect performances elevate yet another staging of Arthur Miller’s transgressive tragedy
A play about the rancid heart of the Ameri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThe Booth Theatre, New York
An inspired idea, a comedic follow-up to Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy, is sadly not enough to sustain a disappointingly thin show
Nine onstage deaths, three sev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AMSunday, April 21, 2019
He played ‘anxious weirdo nerds’ in Pitch Perfect and Dear Evan Hansen, but on his soul-baring new album Ben Platt has a new role ... himself
‘I really like playing people who aren’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
The Golden Theatre, New York
The Tony award winner dominates as the politician in a 2008-set work of speculative stage drama with John Lithgow as her supportive husband
Remember when Hillar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, April 18, 2019
“Anthem: Homunculus” is a six-hour, 10-episode epic about a man and his teratoma. The tumor sings. As do Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and Cynthia Erivo.
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Hudson Theatre, New York
A standout performance from the brooding actor is the main selling point of an 80s-set comedy drama that fails to match him
A small play about big words – sex, dea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
This series, which debuts Tuesday on FX, includes many midcentury Broadway and film personalities and their works. Here’s a cheat sheet.
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With Taylor Mac’s “sequel” about to open on Broadway, we look at how Shakespeare’s goriest play has seeped into pop culture.
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Turns out that a Jacobean tragedy with a bleak worldview and an extensive body count can still be a lot of fun.
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Heidi Schreck’s funny, impactful and breathlessly exciting ode to the constitution is one of the year’s best shows
Shattering, galvanizing and very funny, Heidi S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PMFriday, March 29, 2019
A limited FX series revives two Broadway legends, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Will the show razzle dazzle us? Or will it find a new way to tell the story of artists who behave badly?
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Shana Cooper’s revival at Theater for a New Audience is so deep in conversation with itself and its dance battles that it nearly forgets to speak to us today.
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The final show at Jack’s current location is weird and difficult to parse. But it’s nice to know there’s a place for theater like this in New York.
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Imperial Theatre, New York
Broadway’s latest jukebox music is electrified by fantastic singing and dancing but let down by some inert storytelling
There’s a chilly irony at the shrink-wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
The Public Theater, New York
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright has created an absurdist, challenging drama about the fallout from a racially motivated attack by police
Slavery ended in 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMSantino Fontana’s turn as a man in a wig comes at a time when Broadway has been reckoning with the idea that musical comedies need to offer fully realized female characters.
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“Actually, We’re ______” follows four millennials dealing with love and infidelity, but it’s an unfunny play that would rather be a sitcom.
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In ‘Hate___,’ the main characters argue over what it means to be Muslim, but mostly they want to get tangled in the sheets.
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Linda Gross Theater, New York
The prolific Oscar nominee has fun playing a woman unmoored by the absence of her husband and son in a dark farce with questionable politics
Fatuous and skimpy,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Soho Playhouse, New York
The witty, filthy, tragic one-woman show arrives stateside, with all its jagged edges still intact
“I’m not obsessed with sex,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge says, with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMBefore the force is with them, Keri Russell and Adam Driver, who will both appear in “Star Wars: Episode IX,” bring an unruly love story to Broadway.
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The playwright and star of “What the Constitution Means to Me” visits the Founding Fathers and talks about breaking up with their creation.
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Leegrid Stevens’s play follows an astronaut on her journey to Mars, as she checks her air pressure, fuel levels and mental health.
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Arts writers for The New York Times share their strategies (snacks) and budget-friendly options (outdoor events) in a discussion about introducing children to the arts.
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Sean O’Casey’s tragicomic 1923 play has returned to the Irish Repertory Theater, the first production in a season devoted to his work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMGreenwich House Theater, New YorkThe Hamilton creator’s goofily entertaining show has been around since 2004 and in its new Manhattan home, it’s more fun than everLin-Manuel Miranda, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Loy A. Webb’s tear-struck thesis play starts with an engagement and swerves into the territory of sexual-assault trauma.
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