This was the year of playwrights saying what they mean. The post The Best Theater of 2019 appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:09AMThe Inheritance’s attempt to speak for everyone muddies its ability to speak clearly to anyone. The post Review: <em>The Inheritance</em> Is a Radical, If Short-Sighted, Take o…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:31AMIn the wake of Slave Play, immediate answers might sound neither comforting nor honest. The post <em>Slave Play</em> Review: A Searing, Satirical Takedown of White Supremacy appe…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:38PMTwo twists on the typical range of possibilities for the musical theater writing process are playing out in two recent musicals. The post Review: <em>Broadbend, Arkansas</em> and…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:28PMIt’s telling that the show gets its biggest laughs only after it’s turned deadly serious. The post Review: <em>Scotland, PA</em> Finds Its Purpose When It Sticks to the Bard …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:23PMHamnet Shakespeare, played maturely with a mix of grim optimism and snarky despair by Aran Murphy in his professional debut, has been stuck at eleven for a long, long time.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:09AMMayer convincingly sells Little Shop of Horrors as a near-perfect piece of musical theater writing.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:07AMAs an animation of a single document, Is This A Room feels like a refreshingly innovative concept.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:33AMCurtainDirector Leah C. Gardiner has crafted a production nourished by the affection shown and attention paid across this rainbowed community
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:34PMLetts trips over the line between objectifying women and satirizing the objectification of women. The post Review: Tracy Letts’s <em>Linda Vista</em> Doesn’t Make Enough Spac…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:07PMReview: If you had told me at age 12 that my two favorite literary protagonists — Harry Potter and Percy Jackson — would be headlining Broadway shows side-by-side in less than 15 years,…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:35PMUltimately, it’s the wrong man who animates the stage. The post Review: <em>The Wrong Man</em> Suggests a Concept Album Propped Up on Two Legs appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PMThe play is too overstuffed and too easily distracted to say anything profound or potent about its subject matter. The post Review: As Anatomy of a Presidency, <em>The Great Society<…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:24PMThe production gets out of the way and lets its stars do what they do best. The post Review: <em>Freestyle Love Supreme</em> Pumps You Up with Rhyme and Rhythm appeared first on …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:59PMSmall miracles bookend Rattlestick Theater's Novenas for A Lost Hospital in Greenwich Village.
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SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:18AMJamie Lloyd’s gauzy new production of Harold Pinter’s play aims for the abstractly lyrical. The post <em>Betrayal</em> Review: The Actors Are the Thing, the Stage-Craft Not S…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:58PMDescriptive Excerpt:His voice catches on a plaintive note, then crescendos to peals of laughter. Is this Lear? Is this Hamlet? No, it's just Mark Rodgers. . .delivering a 2-hour lecture perf…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:57AMCurtainup Reviewer: Broadway Bounty Hunter Dan Rubins Descriptive Excerpt: The chance to see Annie Golden in her fiercely ridiculous (or ridiculously fierce) pursuit of justice is a bounty…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:58AMAll of Luis Alfaro's characters are Latinx, and he offers deep contrasts between the ways that different newcomers, even within the same family, make sense of their new home and their sudde…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:49PMZayd Dohrn's three-person play is a family affair. Director Lori Triolo, who also acts has brought her mom and dad along for the ride: Joe-Marie Triolo's the art director and Peter Triolo…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:02AMIn 1933, the German X-ray technician Carl Tanzler (who often went by Count Carl von Cosel) snatched the body of The post Review: It Happened in Key West, Charing Cross Theatre appeared first…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:18AMThe real live horse onstage in the Royal Opera House’s revival of Robert Carsen’s 2012 production of Verdi’s glorious final The post Review: Falstaff, Royal Opera House appeared first …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMWhat’s new, Buenos Aires? Not much, unfortunately, in the West End revival of Evita, that singing timeline of a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. With the exception of some e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMVery young audiences may well be inspired by seeing their peers storm the stage en masse in the British Theatre Academy’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, currently playing a month-long run at…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMMatilda, Annie, and School of Rock may be employing myriad youngsters on the West End, but the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre’s new musical proves that there’s plenty of youthful talen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AMWords, words, words. That’s Shakespeare, not Tennessee Williams, but I’ve seldom been more spellbound by the pursuit of language – the desperation to find the right words, the frustrat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:32AMIn the second scene of The Tempest, Prospero famously recounts to his daughter Miranda how the pair came to inhabit their magical island all those years ago, peppering his story with calls t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMHelen Edmundson’s Queen Anne makes a convincing case that this neglected monarch deserves more attention and that the powerful Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, who shared a tumultu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMThe Southwark Playhouse has had an excellent, eclectic season so far, with shows ranging from a thrilling production of conjoined twins musical Side Show, the brilliant dive into the 17th-ce…
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