Sunday, October 17, 2021
A play as uncommon, and uncanny, as Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.” requires an actor of, well, uncommon and uncanny talents. Deirdre O’Connell is just such an actor. Something of a grande d…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 08:00PMThursday, October 14, 2021
“The Lehman Trilogy” represents the kind of prestige Broadway production that invariably causes a certain class of well-heeled, culturally savvy New Yorkers to salivate over tickets. It …
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:30PMWednesday, October 13, 2021
The busy streets of Brooklyn provide the background to Keenan Scott II’s “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” but firmly seizing the foreground are the seven captivating actors who bring to li…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 08:30PMMonday, October 11, 2021
People generally don’t attend a Broadway show expecting to become flushed with anxiety. But it’s hard to watch the documentary drama “Is This A Room” without beginning to feel a litt…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMSunday, October 10, 2021
Douglas Lyons’s “Chicken & Biscuits,” at Broadway’s Circle in the Square theater, is a savory comedy served with a hefty side order of sentiment. It’s a mostly successful combo…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMThursday, October 7, 2021
All great blues songs have a timeless quality, so it’s entirely fitting that Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s solo show “Lackawanna Blues” still gleams like a newly minted coin some 20 years …
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMSunday, October 3, 2021
Theatergoers thirsty for something festive, fresh and funny — which is to say, just about all lovers of theater who have endured the drought of the past 18 months — will find much to del…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:59PMSunday, August 22, 2021
For a play with just four characters and a single, sparsely furnished set, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over” feels almost momentous — even historic. This is in part due to the…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 06:00PMFriday, March 12, 2021
March 12, 2020 will be a date that most Broadway workers and Broadway-goers will never forget. I certainly won’t. On that day, as has been widely noted by now, the musical “Six” was sc…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 06:30AMThursday, March 5, 2020
You can practically see the tumbleweeds blowing through the hearts of the characters in “Girl From the North Country.” This achingly beautiful musical weds the songs of Bob Dylan to a bo…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMThursday, February 20, 2020
With his new production of “West Side Story,” the estimable Belgian director Ivo van Hove has essentially stolen a march on no less a showbiz luminary than Steven Spielberg. How’s that…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 08:00PMThursday, January 23, 2020
In just the first minutes of Bess Wohl’s “Grand Horizons,” a supremely funny comedy of marital malaise presented by Second Stage Theater, Jane Alexander and James Cromwell deliver a mi…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Shots ring out. A man falls dead at the hands of an unknown killer. Enter an investigator to sort through a hefty pile of suspects and bring the culprit to justice. Charles Fuller’s Pulitz…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
When the theater goes to the library for inspiration, the results can often be disappointing. Even great books can wither and wilt when they are adapted for the stage. A happy if not entirel…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Love is most certainly for sale at “Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter.” Although the composer-lyricist is justifiably renowned for his coruscating wit and insouciant wordpl…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 07:30PMThursday, December 5, 2019
In “You Learn,” the song that concludes the new musical “Jagged Little Pill” on a note of hard-won, almost downbeat uplift, a lyric from Alanis Morissette recommends the advantages o…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
If you don’t respond with a moist eye and a swelling heart to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ classic tale of a miser’s spiritual redemption, I wouldn’t go so far as to cal…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMSunday, November 17, 2019
Most Broadway seasons feature at least one show that gathers an aura of importance even before it opens. This year it is undoubtedly “The Inheritance,” Matthew Lopez’s two-part, nearly…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMThursday, November 14, 2019
“Slava’s Snowshow,” which has returned to New York for a limited engagement more than a decade after its first Broadway run, is not your typical holiday fare. While the show’s cast i…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 07:00PMMonday, November 11, 2019
To the long list of adjectives we toss around like verbal confetti to describe Kristin Chenoweth – radiant, impish, perky, sunny, funny! – we can now add fearless. In her concert at the …
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 03:12PMThursday, November 7, 2019
If a single voice, or a single performance, could send a Broadway musical soaring to greatness, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” would handily qualify as one of the best musicals to emerg…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMThursday, October 31, 2019
The company returns to Lincoln Center to celebrate its founder, performing many of the late choreographer's masterworks October 29–November 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMSunday, October 20, 2019
“We’re on a road to nowhere,” David Byrne sings in the final encore of his Broadway concert, “American Utopia,” at the Hudson Theatre. Can we get an encore of that encore, please?…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Pop quiz question: Can you name a single writer darker than Dostoevsky? The options are few, but I hereby nominate Adam Rapp, the playwright and novelist whose vision is so unrelievedly grim…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
You think your dad (or mom) is a deadbeat? Consider the plight of the young characters in “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” a thoroughly endearing family-friendly musical…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
As Serafina Delle Rose, a grieving Italian-American widow struggling to open herself to life again in Tennessee Williams’s “The Rose Tattoo,” Marisa Tomei bares just about all, emotion…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMThursday, October 10, 2019
A sad romantic comedy sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s an apt-enough description of “Linda Vista,” a slight but funny and quietly affecting play from Tracy Letts, which h…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMSunday, October 6, 2019
If there’s anything more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, it’s hearing about their therapy sessions. And, to my mind, hearing about people’s sexual fantasies — admi…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 08:30PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
If “gerund” isn’t the very last word I ever expected to hear uttered on a Broadway stage, it’s probably pretty darn close. Broadway rarely gives grammar lessons, after all. And yet…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMTuesday, October 1, 2019
When incendiary current events are leaping from your TV screen into your lap on an almost hourly basis, a play such as “The Great Society” has a tough row to hoe. How to excite audiences…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
As a literary luminary slowly sinking into senility, thrashing through his failing memory like a man battling the suffocating grip of quicksand, Jonathan Pryce gives a performance of remarka…
SOURCE: broadwaynews.com at 10:00PM 
