Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The tone of this musical adaption is gratingly cartoonish, replacing the dry whimsy of the movie with overwrought clownishness.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:06PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Kevin Kline and Noël Coward’s should really get together more often.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:42PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Adaptation is an ancient and noble art, but some things simply work better on film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s swoony-cartoony movie, with its saturated reds and greens, manic angles and surreal…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:29PMMonday, March 13, 2017
When Sam Gold’s production is viewed as a counter-interpretation, the friction it creates is fascinating.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:06PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal leads an exquisite group of actors in this superb revival.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:04PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Now 34 years old, the musical’s art-world satire still cuts and its emotional climax still brings tears. It began Sondheim’s late (and, arguably, most unguarded and daring) period, inclu…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:51PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Long overdue on Broadway, Jitney is a soul-sustaining, symphonic piece by a late, great master of language.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:42AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Tantalizingly, the first half of Beauty Queen is almost a pared-down Celtic riff on The Glass Menagerie: overbearing mother, daughter with mental problems, a gentleman caller (Marty Rea) who…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:34AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
If Cate Blanchett weren t in this production, few people would be going to see it.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:54PMThursday, November 17, 2016
Dave Malloy has put together one of the most original new musicals Broadway has seen this decade.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:54PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Simon Stephen’s drama begins with an intriguing premise but offers little to back it up.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:54PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
This fast-paced production is bursting at the seams with acting talent.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:42PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Closing one’s eyes in the theater can be a sign of boredom or exhaustion. But shutting the peepers at Simon McBurney’s utterly transfixing mind-tickler The Encounter is a valid expressio…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:14AMThursday, September 8, 2016
You’re over Hamilton: We get it. After hysterical reviews, obscene ticket prices and all the awards ever, enough is enough. The media coverage has grown so predictable, the hype is so perv…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:39PMFriday, August 26, 2016
From Thou Shalt Not to Amazing Grace, 20 of the absolute stinkiest flops the Great White Way has seen since 2000
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:21PMSaturday, August 6, 2016
According to reports at Playbill and Curbed New York, construction workers at the Times Square Toys R Us located at Broadway and 44th Street have unearthed the 121-year-old remains of the en…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:53AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Bad-history plays are a thing now. By “bad” I don’t mean poorly researched, but ones incongruously reframed for comic or deconstructive effect (Drunk History, but arty). Out with perio…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:02PMSunday, July 31, 2016
My gateway show was not Cats—nor was it Les Miz or Phantom. I grew up, like any self-respecting theater snob, disdaining such tourist trash from afar. Lacking youthful nostalgia for Andrew…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:45PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
When Mark Zuckerberg was recently photographed with his laptop camera and microphone jack covered in tape, complacent technophiles began to sweat. If the head of Facebook worries about perso…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:02AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Growing up a straight white boy in small-town New Hampshire, I wasn’t exactly destined to care about Broadway musicals, much less love them and write essays about how we may be living in a…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:01AMThursday, July 14, 2016
Silence is golden in Bess Wohl’s exquisite play set at an upstate meditation retreat where six strangers take (and mostly break) a vow not to speak. But baser metals also emerge from the v…
SOURCE: Time Out at 12:37AMFriday, June 10, 2016
Anyone who attends Conor McPherson’s Shining City a second time won’t be surprised by a certain coup de théâtre at the very end. Those who saw it at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2006 know…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:02AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
The 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 12 from the Beacon Theatre. So now it’s time for our annual tradition, dear reader, of bestowing our can’t-lose predictions a…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:24PMDrama cannot happen without a controlled release of information that keeps the characters in the room and the audience wanting more. It helps to have vivid dialogue, an unpredictable plot an…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:17AMThursday, May 26, 2016
The global neocircus giant Cirque du Soleil does things no else on Broadway can. Its acrobats execute quadruple backflips off a teeterboard, their heels seeming to brush the rigging high abo…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:02PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
British playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let’s call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and h…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:31AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Bars are outstanding factories for human suffering—and deliverance. Everywhere from Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh to Louis C.K.’s hauntingly great web series Horace and Pete, wa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:58AMSunday, May 1, 2016
There’s a fiery revival of Tennessee Williams’s great drama buried under the truckload of 1990s regietheater clichés that Benedict Andrews dumps all over St. Ann’s Warehouse’s playi…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:13PMFriday, April 29, 2016
Thursday, April 28, 2016
The full title of this extraordinary showbiz excavation-renovation masterminded by George C. Wolfe—Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed—is v…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:30PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
At the dramatic crux of Tuck Everlasting, a 102-year-old man trapped in a 17-year-old body asks an 11-year-old girl to wait six years until she’s legal, at which point she will drink from …
SOURCE: Time Out at 12:15AM 
