Thursday, December 7, 2017
Steve Martin’s zestless couples comedy is high on wackiness but low on laughs.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:48PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
A play about greed and scandal in Washington comes across as flat and uninspired.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:33PMFriday, November 3, 2017
While entertaining, Junk is packed with a lot of trader jargon, greed and testosterone that you may feel like you ve seen before.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:05AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
While it may not be high on drama, an evening with the Boss is always special.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:48PMFriday, September 29, 2017
John Doyle’s production conjures the sense of being a child at play in a forest of wondrous words.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:33PMThursday, September 7, 2017
This greatest-hits revue celebrates the work of Harold Prince in the least interesting way.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:04AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Michael Moore encourages the audience to do something – other than tweeting – to unseat our loathsome president.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:48PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Sam Gold’s staging is unique, eloquent and at times very funny.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Lucas Hnath picks up where Henrik Ibsen left off in 1879.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:06PMWednesday, 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…
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