Friday, November 17, 2023
Goofiness is at an all-time high in director Josh Rhodes’ iteration of the time-cherished musical comedy.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:51AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s conventional new musical does a rudimentary but essential job of reviving a dead historical act.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:40AMFriday, November 3, 2023
Theresa Rebeck’s latest theatrical venture is one of her limpest — a frustratingly monotone, predictable and seasonless dose of comfort theater.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 07:50AMMonday, October 30, 2023
In this new version of the classic Rodgers and Hart musical, Joey is now a Black nightclub singer played by Ephraim Sykes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMThursday, October 26, 2023
This new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic remains largely faithful to the novel, but it trades subtle prose for a straightforward production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:55PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Jocelyn Bioh’s latest slice-of-African-immigrant-life comedy invites audiences into the glorious maelstrom that is a Black woman’s braiding shop.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:06AMFriday, September 29, 2023
Melissa Etheridge’s self-penned show is full of luster, vulnerability and pride — so full it almost aches for an editor.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00AMThursday, September 28, 2023
The revival of Ossie Davis’ killingly funny and perceptive 1961 play is as close to Biblical scripture as Black theater gets.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:22AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Awe-inspiring visual effects and hilarious performances drive this theatrical adaptation of the iconic film
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMMonday, July 24, 2023
Sandy Rustin’s version of a drawing room farce falls short of both feminism and comedy.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMThursday, July 20, 2023
David Byrne’s immersive musical is a thrilling pageant of theatrics, but abstracts Filipino history better than enacting it.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Richard Hollman’s tender, site-specific play explores the awkward resumption of a Covid-interrupted friendship over a deceptively innocent game of catch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Liza Birkenmeier’s abstract play is a unique exploration of romantic relationships but suffers from sleepy direction and a lack of character enrichment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Alex Edelman’s solo show about his drop-into a white nationalist meeting entertains and illuminates.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
The musical of Britney Spears songs hits all the right notes of zaniness, creativity and unbridled joy.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Blankson-Wood plays the Danish Prince at Free Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet this summer, while Spears stars in Fat Ham on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43AMThursday, June 1, 2023
Levi Holloway’s horror opened on May 30 at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:44PMFriday, May 26, 2023
In her adaptation of Lorca, Diane Exavier emphasizes the importance of belonging to a place, and how painful it is to consign memories of it to the grave.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
A run-of-the-mill big Broadway extravaganza that knows where, but not when, it is.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:05PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
David Auburn’s eventless play bargains on feverish nostalgia and a paper-thin portrayal of friendship.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 11:11PMMonday, April 24, 2023
Entering the Broadway production of “Good Night, Oscar,” I knew nothing about playwright Doug Wright’s titular figure, Oscar Levant, but I left caring for the crotchety old man as if h…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:40PMSuch is the magic of “Good Night, Oscar” and, specifically, actor Sean Hayes’ virtuosic turn as the accomplished Jewish pianist and talk show personality riddled with various mental il…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Since the establishment of modern democracy, several men — and fewer women — have inked policies that govern civic activity, yielding black-and-white legal truths of what constitutes a c…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:10PMThe weight of “Prima Facie” lies squarely on actor Jodie Comer’s capable shoulders.
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:00PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Satire is one of the American theater’s greatest tools. At its best, the genre is both an effective pedagogical tool for change and a sharply-aimed weapon for critical analysis. Larissa Fa…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:42PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
In theater, catastrophes are usually reserved for dramatic works. But in Broadway’s “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” calamity drives farce forward. British co-conspirators Henry Lewis, Jonathan…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:21PMThursday, April 13, 2023
Few would call the Middle Ages a period of thriving liberal democracy, but in Aaron Sorkin’s modernized upgrade to Lerner & Loewe’s 1960 classic “Camelot,” the quest for equality…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:25PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Few scenarios are ripe with as much drama as a Black family barbecue. Secrets, revenge and war (usually over the best dishes, but war nonetheless) play out over a steaming grill and a good b…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 11:45PMThursday, April 6, 2023
In his solo show about the death of his teenage children, Colin Campbell recounts his calamitous relationship with the darkest of emotions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM 
