Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A new musical weds intimate direction with records from the Avett Brothers’ oeuvre to tell a sweeping, but sleepy, tale about men lost at sea.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
A retro-style musical uses original songs from Elton John to tell an unfocused story about one of America’s most infamous television couples.
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Will Aronson and Hue Park’s adorable show, imported from South Korea, is a golden example of impactful, engaging, original musical theater.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:36PMThe jazz-fueled new musical breaks the legendary artist’s life down into four, overly neat beats, anchored by four wives.
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Sam Gold directs a revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy that leverages the popular fashions and ethics of today.
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The thrill-free theatrical mounting of Delia Ephron’s memoir is a disappointing regurgitation of its source material.
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Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide parents and children.
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Jamie Lloyd’s remarkable staging is a defining new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mid-century-set musical.
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Director Kenny Leon’s slightly modernized revival of the American paragon finds its divine core, but lacks connection.
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Playwright David Henry Hwang holds a mirror to his nation, his industry and, most searingly, himself in the remounted mockumentary.
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Pulitzer-winner Ayad Akhtar’s latest play is a blurry meditation on artificial intelligence and authorship.
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Jez Butterworth’s largely excellent new melodrama boasts powerful performances but sings too familiar a tune.
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Megawatt performers Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow sprinkle stardust on playwright Jen Silverman’s hollow comedy about 60-something roommates.
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Director Lear deBessonet’s Broadway revival leans into the family-friendly joviality of the musical comedy staple, led by a reliably wacky Sutton Foster.
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Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich warns about the horrors of being chronically online in this intense, intimate two-hander.
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The actor Ryan Spahn makes his Off Broadway playwriting debut with an immersive, psychologically shallow dark comedy.
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The runaway First Family spoof continues its agenda of delirious, deranged and undeniable fun on Broadway.
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Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.
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Director-choreographer Justin Peck’s unique dance-theater-concert hybrid is a commendable, imaginative rendering of Sufjan Stevens’ concept album.
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Director Marc Bruni mounts a sumptuous musical adaptation of the American classic that represents how dazzling theater can look, but now how impactful it can be.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:54AMVogel’s nuanced exploration of her own family sets the stage for a profound and humorous new American play.
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Heidi Schreck pens a comedy-bolstered but disorienting translation of Chekhov’s seminal play.
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Amy Herzog’s play about a mother and her ill son is an expertly-crafted exploration of allegiance and love.
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Jonathan A. Abrams’s offering is a rote but still rollickin’ musical scored to Huey Lewis and the News’ nostalgia-inducing discography.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:40PMIn Peter Morgan’s latest, cartoonish versions of the red-blooded Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his political puppet, Vladimir Putin, go head-to-head.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:35PMDirector Rebecca Frecknall’s creepy interpretation of the legendary classic pulls you in with fantasy, then crushes you with reality.
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Alicia Keys’ new musical, freshly transferred from the Public Theater, is an adoring snapshot of young love and longing in ’90s New York.
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Naturalism has never looked or sounded as good as it does in David Adjmi’s ’70s-set, soft rock drama.
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Shaina Taub makes a strong Broadway debut as the writer, composer and lyricist of this new American musical.
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Co-writers Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould color outside the traditional lines, but are backed by enough talent to render a captivating portrait.
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