Wednesday, May 22, 2024
This rock musical begins in glorious dive-bar grunge mode, and Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones radiate so much charisma you may not care if the story feels a little generic.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:00PMMonday, May 20, 2024
Dave Malloy juggles book, music, lyrics, and orchestrations in this musical triptych about Covid Times. The score is entertainingly eclectic, but the dramatic tension and character developme…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMMonday, May 13, 2024
This interview-based docu-play revolves around a mysterious photo album donated to the Holocaust Museum that showed the lives of those running Auschwitz.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:01PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:53PMMonday, April 29, 2024
It’s hard to describe exactly what happens in this show. Scenes zig and zag in dream logic. But the acting and staging are impeccable. Book a table now.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00AMFriday, April 26, 2024
Steve Carrell and a stand-out Alison Pill lead a strong cast in a modern-dress revival of Chekov's 'Uncle Vanya' that never quite gels.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:58PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
Is it love or a side effect? Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play interrogating the difference between spontaneous emotions and drug-induced moods is given a cool, minimalist makeover in a revival at …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMMonday, March 11, 2024
This ripped-from-the-headlines story has a strong cast and a worthy message. But it ought to be more thrilling than it is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMThursday, March 7, 2024
'Doubt,' one of the top ten American dramas of this century, is now back on Broadway in an impressive revival.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMMonday, March 4, 2024
The veteran playwright-director tosses together two soiled souls—played by Cecily Strong and David Zayas—adds softener, and gives ’em a whirl.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:09PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
Between now and the end of April a whopping 18 plays and musicals will open on the Great White Way. Here's the best of what's coming, both on and Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Page-filling blocks of strong words are unfurled in this campus drama, as playwright Itamar Moses articulates—passionately and eloquently—each side of weighty issues of the moment, from …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Set 22 years from now — as climate change has doomed the bees and thus humanity — this high-concept play mixes sci-fi with black comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
This musical about a fabulist at a magazine draws on the Stephen Glass scandal of the ‘90s, but it’s more than a bit of stretch itself.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:01PMThursday, February 1, 2024
All in the family: a PhD student visits India to film a documentary about queer life in Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s vibrant and charming debut play.
Abrar Haque as Choton, Debashis Roy Chowd…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Set entirely at group therapy sessions, this 80-minute exploration of psychodynamics and healing may leave you wishing for characters with more interesting problems.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMSaturday, January 27, 2024
Foster generates waves of zany ecstasy in this delightful concert version of this fractured fairytale for City Center Encores.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:25PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
A Jewish family — shaken by a recent rise in European antisemitism — uproots itself in Joshua Harmon's passionately argued play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s slow-burning satire of white privilege arrives on Broadway in an impeccable production with a dream cast, led by Sarah Paulson.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:03AMMonday, December 18, 2023
This jukebox musical alternates passionate renditions of Afro-Cuban son, danzón, and bolero with scenes in English that chart the lives of musicians across four decades of love and loss.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:21PMSunday, December 10, 2023
'How to Dance in Ohio' was clearly made with love, but this musical adaptation of an HBO documentary about autistic people learning to dance tries to balance good intentions and razzle-dazzl…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s play shifts between the Dutch colonization of Manhattan and the subprime mortgage crisis, a concept that looks good on paper but diminishes the characters and their ch…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSunday, November 19, 2023
Part juke-box musical and part feel-good empowerment fable, this musical from Alicia Keys hungers for a home on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
In the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMPacked with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:07AMMonday, November 13, 2023
The story of the Comedian Harmonists—the German (and Jewish) singing sensations forced to break up due to the Third Reich—is told in this amiable if derivative musical.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:18PMThursday, November 2, 2023
This tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSunday, October 29, 2023
This portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMMonday, October 23, 2023
The one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim’s final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:39PMThursday, October 12, 2023
It the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
The Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O’Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:13PM 
