Monday, May 22, 2023
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Comer’s astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:24PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons—from Monty Python to Might…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, April 16, 2023
This revival — with a new book by Aaron Sorkin — is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
In this — wait for it — corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThursday, March 23, 2023
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it’s TikTok meets gr…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMThursday, March 9, 2023
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, March 5, 2023
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Chekhov’s 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover — those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:21PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Sharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom — with laugh lines for Nathan Lane — and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:30PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Riffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:36PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Thanks to superlative casting (including Daniel Radcliffe) and canny direction, this elegant, emotionally searching production may be the finest 'Merrily' you’ll ever see.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMMonday, December 5, 2022
This sloppy Broadway embrace of Neil Diamond is a jukebox musical in search of a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:38AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
New York theater rolls into fall again with a packed schedule of Broadway, off-Broadway, and experimental theater.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:51AMFriday, July 29, 2022
At Park Avenue Armory, writer-director Robert Icke transforms Greek tragedy 'Oresteia' for a more postmodern audience.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:08PMMonday, July 25, 2022
The bestselling novel 'The Kite Runner' has been adapted marvelously for screen and now for stage yet a weak adaptation does it no justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:02PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Shakespeare adaptations come with a certain pressure, with some more successful than others. ‘Richard III’ struggles to make the cut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:45PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Revivals of Sondheim can be mixed business due to the pressure of his legacy yet some revivals. 'Into the Woods' does his legacy justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:47PMThursday, June 30, 2022
Robert Icke's production of 'Hamlet' at Park Avenue Armory is nearly four hours and it's mostly Hamlet throwing a weird little fit.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AMMonday, June 27, 2022
An excellent cast with a so-so story, 'Epiphany' has great moments that don’t quite come together, but could appeal to some.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:39PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
The combined genius of Sarah Silverman, Joshua Harmon, and the late Adam Schlesinger brings you back to childhood at Atlantic Theater..
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:58PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Playwright James Ijames adapts Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' to modern North Carolina following the drama of a family-owned BBQ restaurant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThursday, May 19, 2022
An ambitious play, 'Golden Shield' attempts to weave Chinese censorship law, political dissidence, and family drama, to varying success.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:25AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
At Pershing Square Signature Theatre, 'A Case for the Existence of God' takes a direct look at the lives of seemingly very different men.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:42AMFriday, April 29, 2022
At Longacre Theatre featuring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, director Sam Gold takes on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Incoherent yet star-studded.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:00PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
At Lyceum Theatre, a production of 'A Strange Loop' pulls audiences in as it tackles coming into your own as a Black gay man.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31AMMonday, April 25, 2022
The 1942 allegory returns to the stage with Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and star Gabby Beans at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, April 24, 2022
Beanie Feldstein turns the story of Funny Girl from the rising up and wising up of a great, if troubled, trouper into the wish-fulfillment fable of a moderately gifted young lady.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:46PM 
