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Friday, December 23, 2016

‘Too Much Tuna’: Dinner for One Unlucky Guest in ‘Oh, Hello’ by Alexis Soloski

The skit, which features a celebrity brought onstage, has become a highlight of “Oh, Hello on Broadway.”

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‘Too Much Tuna,’ but the Dinner Is Free for One Unlucky Guest by Alexis Soloski

The skit, which features a celebrity brought onstage, has become a highlight of “Oh, Hello on Broadway.”

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle by Alexis Soloski

The Australian actors team up yet again onstage, this time in “The Present.” It can’t possibly end well, can it?

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Allegiance review: George Takei can't save Broadway's mediocre pledge by Alexis Soloski

Musical revisits an important and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120,000…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AM
Monday, December 12, 2016

Othello review – Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo dazzle in modern retelling by Alexis Soloski

New York Theatre WorkshopAn army barracks provides a striking setting for Sam Gold’s take on Shakespeare’s classic that minimizes questions of race and amps up toxic masculinitySam Gold …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04PM

The best and worst of Broadway 2016: from innovation to ineptitude by Alexis Soloski

The year began downbeat and ended oddly, with Dear Evan Hansen and Heisenberg among the highlights as Cirque du Soleil fell flat with ParamourWhen history books come to discuss the Broadway …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Review: In ‘Day of Absence,’ Blacks Vanish From a Town, and Chaos Ensues by Alexis Soloski

This Douglas Turner Ward “satirical fantasy” from 1965 has been revived by the Negro Ensemble Company, performed largely by black actors in whiteface.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Review: ‘Alligator’ Wallows in a Lurid Florida Pit of Sex and Murder by Alexis Soloski

This play by Hillary Bettis, about a fictitious Florida tourist attraction, sits uneasily somewhere between gritty naturalism and magical realism.

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Monday, December 5, 2016

'Nothing is private anymore': behind Dear Evan Hansen, the social media musical by Alexis Soloski

The creators of the buzzy high school-set production talk about the dangers of the digital world for teenagers as their play hits BroadwayDuring its development, the creators of Dear Evan Ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Critic's Notebook: There’s Magic in the Air, if You Believe by Alexis Soloski

Jason Bishop’s “Straight Up Magic” and “The Illusionists: Turn of the Century” offer audiences a chance to feel bewitched, bothered and bamboozled.

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Friday, December 2, 2016

A Bronx Tale: the Musical review – shrink-wrapped in by its own nostalgia by Alexis Soloski

The Longacre Theatre, New YorkSluggish songs, a plodding plot and a lack of urgency makes this adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s yarn of gangsters and forbidden fruit, frigid and forgettabl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Review: ‘The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal,’ With a Bride-to-Be and a Trailer Park by Alexis Soloski

A trailer park in Ireland is the backdrop for this story of an unusual man named Pigeon and a woman dumped on his doorstep.

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Gigi review – dubious age-gap musical fails to fizz by Alexis Soloski

Neil Simon Theater, New York The girls are now above the age of consent, but there’s still not much else to thank heaven for in this awkward stage version of the 50s filmIn a celebrated no…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Review: Alton Brown, a Mad Culinary Scientist in a Broadway Laboratory by Alexis Soloski

In “Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science,” the Food Network personality serves up a menu of challenging fare. Tequila and pumpkin spice liqueur with mouthwash, anyone?

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Critic’s Notebook: Watching Postelection, So Much Feels Different by Alexis Soloski

Wherever we fall on the political spectrum, we’re going to see our desires and fears reflected in the art we encounter, especially in theater.

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Monday, November 21, 2016

Sweet Charity review – energetic take on tragicomic musical is a winner by Alexis Soloski

Pershing Square Signature Center, New YorkThe latest production of the 1966 tale by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields and Neil Simon of a romantic optimist boasts thrilling choreography and a dazzl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda: the bard of Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical, Hamilton, has reignited Broadway. But his talent doesn’t end there. Alexis Soloski finds out moreCreator and star of the musical phenomenon Hamilton…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Dead Poets Society review – superb Jason Sudeikis can't save ill-advised relaunch by Alexis Soloski

The former Saturday Night Live comedian is well cast as the rebellious teacher but the play’s theme of straight white superiority has left it feeling dustyIt has been 27 years since Dead P…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM

Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought review – Daniel Kitson charms with tale of loneliness by Alexis Soloski

St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New YorkThe awkward monologuist offers up a compelling and, at times, excitingly unpredictable one-man show about a small, furry protagonist The star of Mouse…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello by Alexis Soloski

He will play the title role in New York Theater Workshop’s modern-dress production of “Othello,” directed by Sam Gold.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Review: ‘Party People,’ a Nostalgic Look at 1960s Radicalism by Alexis Soloski

This semidocumentary play at the Public Theater, from the spoken-word collective Universes, may be the most frightening and exciting piece of theater now up.

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Monday, November 14, 2016

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 review – a musical cannonball unlike anything else on Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Imperial Theatre, New YorkIts storyline might come from the second volume of War and Peace, but this adaptation flips convention on its head to create truly unique musical theaterWhen the da…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PM
Friday, November 11, 2016

School of Rock review – Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has lost its mojo by Alexis Soloski

Winter Garden theatre, New YorkWith a book by Julian Fellowes, this adaption of the hit film misses the charisma that Jack Black brought as Dewey FinnPay no attention to the title. School of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Transgender Playwrights: ‘We Should Get to Tell Our Own Stories First’ by Alexis Soloski

The playwrights Jess Barbagallo, MJ Kaufman and Basil Kreimendahl discuss attitudes toward transgender artists, and their own recent works.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Review: Makeup Tips Galore, but Not How to Handle Cancer, in ‘Ultimate Beauty Bible’ by Alexis Soloski

The characters in Caroline V. McGraw’s play run up against a problem that makeup can’t fix.

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Sweat review – prescient small town drama is essential election viewing by Alexis Soloski

Lynn Nottage’s moving play about the decline of industry might be set in the 2000s but its unintentionally topical plot makes it a necessary pre-vote watchThere is a specter haunting Lynn …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Notes from the Field review – a one-woman study of incarceration by Alexis Soloski

Anna Deavere Smith’s latest might be flawed, but there’s enough energy and anger to make her exploration of racially motivated imprisonment a standoutEducators, activists, politicians, a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PM
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – Janet McTeer brings fire and ice to Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Booth Theatre, New YorkThe tale of love and revenge takes an intellectually provocative approach to the 1782 French novel but doesn’t always serve the rather more salacious scriptWhen the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36PM
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Falsettos review – radically intimate musical hits the high notes by Alexis Soloski

Walter Kerr Theater, New YorkThe story – about a father who leaves his wife for a man, and finds himself amid the Aids crisis – dates to the 90s, but its psychological truths remain acut…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PM

Sunday in the Park With George review – Jake Gyllenhall sings Sondheim superbly by Alexis Soloski

New York City CenterHats off to Gyllenhall, who leads a triumphant concert performance of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer-winning musical about the very process of art-makingLook, Jake Gyllenh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Porn, blackface and Germaine Greer: the shows that built the Wooster Group by Alexis Soloski

The artistic director of the boundary-pushing New York experimental theater company won a $300,000 prize. Here are the Group’s landmark productionsElizabeth LeCompte, the artistic director…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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