Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen turn the slightest of touches into electric connection.
The post ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: Robot Love appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:00PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor’s casting will persuade their fans that this story is dope AF.
The post ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Review: In New Broadway Revival, Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow app…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, October 21, 2024
Sunset Boulevard’s heavy bones drag behind Jamie Lloyd’s austere vision like a body bag.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:38PMThursday, October 10, 2024
The unendurable passage of time haunts both plays.
The post The Past Is Always Present: ‘The Hills of California’ and ‘Our Town’ on Broadway appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, September 30, 2024
Not knowing what’s real and what’s not is less compelling than McNeal contends.
The post ‘McNeal’ Review: Ayad Akhtar New Play Artificially Grapples with the Realities of AI appeared…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, September 12, 2024
At its funniest, The Roommate is a comedy of manners, an unapologetic throwback.
The post ‘The Roommate’ Review: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in an Uneven Comedy of Manners appeared first…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMMonday, August 12, 2024
If the show isn’t just riotously funny but whipsmart and lovely, too, so are its new stars.
The post ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ Review: A Quick-Witted, Big-Hearted Gem Returns to Broadway …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMThursday, August 1, 2024
With Life and Trust, Emursive has opted wisely for mood over minutiae.
The post ‘Life and Trust’ Review: Faustian Bargains appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Job preserves an unsettling undercurrent, despite its ridiculous premise.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PMThursday, June 13, 2024
Despite the 12 Angry Men-like setup, there’s nothing anonymous about the women here.
The post <em>The Welkin</em> Review: Twelve Women Anatomize a Murder in 18th-Century Englan…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:29AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
There are at least four celebrated contenders vying, all equally convincingly, for the top prize.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:43PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Each play poeticizes the cradle-to-near-grave journey of so-called ordinary American lives.
The post Life’s Language: <em>Home</em> and <em>What Becomes of Us</em> …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PMMonday, May 20, 2024
The show ultimately overlooks its own message: that a little isolation goes a long way.
The post <em>Three Houses</em> Review: Dave Malloy’s Post-Pandemic Musical Is Lonely to …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, April 25, 2024
This Great Gatsby is an engaging, tautly rendered, and visually dazzling ride.
The post <em>The Great Gatsby</em> Review: A Musical Take on a Classic Gets a Miraculous Broadway M…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
A smarter, warmer, bolder revival of The Wiz remains tantalizingly out of reach.
The post <em>The Wiz</em> Review: Despite Stunning Performances, New Revival Eases Aimlessly Down…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMSunday, April 14, 2024
It never stands a chance of being so bad it’s good because it wants to be good so badly.
The post <em>Lempicka</em> Review: A Tonally Jumbled Celebration of the Undervalued “…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
In Zinnie Harris’s play, Lady Macbeth gets tangled in her own unraveling.
The post <em>Macbeth (An Undoing)</em> Review: When Undoing Is an Understatement appeared first on Sla…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:04PMUnder Danya Taymor’s direction, this is a remarkable, emotionally arresting piece of theater.
The post <em>The Outsiders</em> Review: Greasers and Socs Will Get a Hold on You i…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMMonday, March 18, 2024
Sam Gold’s sharply accelerating production reveals the horror of hypocrisy.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:08PMThursday, March 14, 2024
This show never transcends the clichés that it conflictingly both seeks to challenge and embrace.
The post <em>The Notebook</em> Review: On Stage, a Nicholas Sparks Adaptation H…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Illinoise functions like a particularly classy jukebox musical.
The post <em>Illinoise</em> Review: Sufjan Stevens’s <em>Illinois</em> Comes Movingly Alive in Josh …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:00PMMonday, February 26, 2024
Fiasco Theater’s production of Pericles is an electrifying act of double-resurrection itself.
The post <em>Pericles</em> Review: The Bawdy and the Beautiful appeared first on S…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
The Connector’s characters reach beyond their time and place to point, Cassandra-like, toward the litany of offenses against the truth that would stack up over 25 years.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 07:00PMSaturday, January 20, 2024
In its new iteration, Under the Radar, which runs through January 21, hasn’t missed a step.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:09PMFriday, December 22, 2023
In 2023, there was a happy diversity in the tapestry of the theater that resonated most deeply.
The post The Best Theater of 2023 appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:02AMSunday, November 19, 2023
There are few dramatic moments that justify the music that stems from the songs.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PMThursday, November 16, 2023
It’s surprising how much of Spamalot’s humor now feels rooted in an earlier time.
The post <em>Spamalot</em> Review: A Musical Revival That Pitches Itself to the TikTok Gener…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:00PMThursday, November 2, 2023
I Need That is a vehicle built for two that mostly just spins its wheels.
The post <em>I Need That</em> Review: Buried by His Past appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMMonday, October 23, 2023
Here We Are is one last invitation to let Sondheim’s music guide us through the woods.
The post <em>Here We Are</em> Review: Stephen Sondheim’s Final Master Class Is Small an…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMThursday, October 12, 2023
O’Casey’s depiction of the incursion of war on the lives of the innocent shudders with timeliness.
The post <em>DruidO’Casey</em> Review: Sean O’Casey’s Trilogy Is a Tr…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:35PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Across this revival of Purlie Victorious, it’s rare that the silliness and sobriety intermix.
The post <em>Purlie Victorious</em> Review: Ossie Davis’s Outsized Jim Crow Sati…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM 
