Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York
The Oscar-winning actor makes a smooth transfer to Broadway but Ayad Akhtar’s play is a mixed bag of insight and exhaustion
The writer Jacob McNeal is, am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Booth Theatre, New York
Two living legends command the stage in uneven new play as two different women who share a house and form a tentative, transformative relationship
The Roommate, a new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
The Hayes Theater, New York
Succession’s Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon star in a dark two-hander about the horrors of the internet
It’s generally a fool’s errand to try to conjure t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Lyceum Theatre, New York
A wild and wildly anachronistic comedy takes the life of Mary Todd Lincoln and embellishes with excess
The real Mary Todd Lincoln was, by most accounts, erratic, oft…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMMonday, July 8, 2024
An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
When Sean “Dino” Johnson first heard of a new theater program…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:05AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York
The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity
As with Appropriate, another outstanding…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York
The Oscar nominee is a captivating emotional anchor in this drama about a mother coping with her child’s health problems
Alex, the two-year-old child at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York
SE Hinton’s novel, which was adapted by Francis Ford Coppola for film, makes for a competent yet forgettable stage show
If Broadway must, for the same ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMMonday, March 18, 2024
Circle in the Square Theater, New York
The Succession star delivers a bravura central turn in a rousing adaptation of a story that carries a discomforting contemporary relevance
For most peo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Todd Haimes Theatre, New York
The award-winning John Patrick Shanley drama returns to Broadway for the first time with note-perfect performances and a discomfiting tone
The new revival of Do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15PMThursday, January 18, 2024
With After Midnight the 30-year-old has become the only woman hosting a regular US late-night show taking over a coveted CBS slot from James Corden
After years of contraction and stasis in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
This year on Broadway promises major debuts from Steve Carell, Rachel McAdams and revivals of Doubt and The Wiz
It’s taken years, but Broadway has nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, December 18, 2023
Helen Hayes Theater, New York
The star is astonishing in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s funny yet moving Broadway debut about a complicated family reunion
If you grew up with it, there’s somet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Tony-winning actor was known for screen roles in Misery, ER and Cheers, and for stage roles in On Golden Pond and The Heiress
Frances Sternhagen, the Tony award-winning actor known for playi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York
The White Lotus star struggles alongside Girls’ Christopher Abbott in an overcooked relationship two-hander from John Patrick Shanley
Danny and the Deep Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, August 17, 2023
As a retrospective of her work opens in London, Rainer looks back at her journey from experimental choreographer to anarchic film-maker and back again
Yvonne Rainer is the iconoclastic chore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMThursday, June 29, 2023
Marquis Theatre, New York
There’s some fun to be had in a splashy attempt to squeeze the pop star’s music into a meta-fairytale crowd-pleaser even with potholes along the way
There are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
Nederlander Theatre, New York
An original new musical about corn offers plenty of dad jokes served with some likable big numbers
The marketing campaign for Shucked, a new and, rare these day…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York
The Broadway transfer of the first major New York revival for the 1998 musical features luminous turns from Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond
Parade, the 1998 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Sundance film festival: mockumentary set at an upstate musical theater camp feels like an extended inside joke
For all the grand gestures of musical theater, there’s an odd flatness to The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AMMonday, January 9, 2023
The year ahead on the Great White Way promises several high-profile revivals, an adaptation of Life of Pi and a Britney jukebox musical, among others
It took years and a few false starts, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:11AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York
Solid performances and rock’n’roll nostalgia can’t overcome lackluster lyrics and source material flaws in the musical adaptation of the 2000 film
Al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
After months of rumors and gossip, the controversial star takes the reins from Beanie Feldstein and stars in the role hallowed by Barbra Streisand
Unless you truly believe all press is good …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMMonday, May 9, 2022
The 90s star finds a way around the limits of the feminist redemption plot: having a good time in her Broadway debut as Chicago’s Roxie Hart
If you polled the audience at New York’s Amba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:51PMMonday, April 25, 2022
August Wilson Theatre, New York
The actor brings pathos (and celebrity) as the vaudeville legend Fanny Brice in the much-hyped musical revival – but not the singing chops
It must be diffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMFriday, February 4, 2022
Neil Simon Theatre, New York
The new Broadway jukebox musical on the life and pop catalog of Michael Jackson is a romp that only glances at the elephant in the room
MJ, a megawatt new jukebo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The comedy special reflects the messy, diffuse, barely processable collective experience of the past year, by digging deep into the online condition
Last week, the comedian Bo Burnham releas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMMonday, March 8, 2021
The rights to the novel which inspired Netflix’s most watched limited series were acquired by a New York production company
It’s not quite checkmate on The Queen’s Gambit. The wildly p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMFriday, January 22, 2021
The director and choreographer, whose credits include A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls, has died after a cardiac arrest in Florida
Bob Avian, the Tony award-winning Broadway mainstay both on sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMFriday, November 13, 2020
Late-night hosts investigate Trump’s corrosive intransigence to reality, and his latest grift: using donations to pay his debts
Donald Trump still refused to acknowledge his electoral defe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThursday, October 1, 2020
Asian American Performers Action Coalition reveals nearly 80% of Broadway and off-Broadway shows from white playwrights
A new report has found stark disparities in racial representation and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM 
