Tuesday, May 20, 2025
A respectful revival brings this play about the agonies of love and sex vibrantly to life.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:33PMSunday, April 27, 2025
This darkly exhilarating musical has what is easily the best new score on Broadway, written by by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and an irreverent yet wistful book by Itamar Moses.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:37PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
A group of teenagers retreat to the woods to process their feelings in playwright Eliya Smith's thoughtful and elliptical dramedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:23AMThursday, April 17, 2025
Four short works from England’s greatest living playwright blaze forth in outstanding American debuts.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:41PMMonday, April 14, 2025
In the most energizing and emotionally wrecking drama this season a group of high school students is studying "The Crucible" and processing the #MeToo movement.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:01PMThursday, April 10, 2025
Loosely adapted from a short-lived television series, this musical comedy about the making of a musical is full of showstopping songs and powered by a phenomenal cast.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:31PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Culkin leads a cast that includes Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean and Bill Burr in this latest Broadway revival of David Mamet's classic tale of trash-talking salesmen.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:04PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Snook gives a master class, playing 26 characters in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel that's hideously apt for our age of Instagram filters and social media.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMMonday, March 24, 2025
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn't solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:15AMThursday, March 20, 2025
Imported from London, this musical about a WWII counterintelligence operation is totally lovable and expertly zany.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Danger comes knocking anew in Rebecca Frecknall’s searing revival of Tennessee Williams’s tragic play, starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran.
Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois and Paul Mes…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMFriday, March 7, 2025
Playwright Abe Koogler's portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that's a tasting menu of acting brilliance.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:30PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Broadway has George Clooney and two different shows based on TV series. Downtown has space travel and T.S. Eliot. Brooklyn has Chekhov and an ant invasion. This theater season, there's somet…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:59PMMonday, February 24, 2025
This two-hander about estranged half-brothers with a dying mother is painfully gorgeous.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMMonday, February 10, 2025
Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:01PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMThursday, January 23, 2025
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and frequently funny masterpiece of music-t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Audra McDonald is the first Black actress to play Madame Rose on Broadway, and she and director George C. Wolfe deliver what may be the most heartstopping 'Gypsy' you’ll ever see.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:01AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Jonathan Spector’s play, about vaccine politics splintering a school board, is one big Learning Moment that pretty much everyone fails.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMFriday, November 15, 2024
The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:37PMMonday, November 11, 2024
This absurdist comedy—the final production to run at Soho Rep—has a hallucinogenic plot that brings to mind the days when artistic risk was the norm and downtown performance art was in h…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Set about 15 years from now, this future fable takes place in and around a shipping center in Wyoming as rising sea levels are swallowing American states east and west.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Characters vape, gender is fluid, desire bi, and death assured in director Sam Gold's hyperpop reimagining of 'Romeo + Juliet.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00PMSunday, October 20, 2024
This revival of the 1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is full of modern eye-candy and a few surprises. Among them, how Nicole Scherzinger commands her scenes in her Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThursday, October 10, 2024
It’s hard to tell what’s real in Ayad Akhtar’s play starring Robert Downey Jr. as an alcoholic novelist who turns to AI.
Robert Downey Jr. as Jacob McNeal (right) and cast of McNeal. …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMSunday, September 29, 2024
An excellent cast and direction from Sam Mendes keep the action driving in this nearly three hour family drama from playwright Jez Butterworth.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:01PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Now 42 years old, the Forbidden Broadway franchise remains Mad Magazine with jazz hands, and the latest edition, 'Merrily We Stole a Song,' features a cast of wildly talented mimics skewerin…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:23PMMonday, September 9, 2024
A couple gropes toward honesty and clarity about how they drifted apart in this fast-moving comic showcase.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:28PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Women are center stage this fall in shows that highlight reproductive rights, consent and motherhood or showcase a powerful female lead. It can’t possibly have anything to do with a certai…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM 
