Monday, 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 08:46PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Martin McDonagh's 'Hangmen' features Alfie Allen and David Threlfall in a story that explores the abolishment of hanging in 1965 England.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
The relevancy of the material is still stark, even 25 years after it was initially staged.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, April 14, 2022
Running at BAM with James McAvoy playing the titular role 'Cyrano de Bergerac' is a beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMMonday, April 4, 2022
The current revival at the Hayes, produced by Second Stage Theatre and ably directed by Scott Ellis, is quite good — well-acted, smart in tone and pace, handsomely designed, with some rese…
SOURCE: Medium at 09:08PMMonday, March 28, 2022
An average ticket price of $212.67 will make a person believe anything. It can turn a Best Western into the Four Seasons.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, March 10, 2022
The documentary play 'Coal Country' examines the aftermath of such a cataclysm, the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, in which 29 out of 31 miners were killed in a coal dust explosion.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMFifteen new productions will open on Broadway in the month of April, that’s one every other day.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:41PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
The 90-minute drama charts Moy’s journey in America from hopeful teen to jaded adult, a progression shadowed by American attitudes toward Chinese immigrants—ranging from Orientalist cond…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:15AMTuesday, February 22, 2022
Cross-cultural tension looms over Sanaz Toossi’s English, an understated classroom dramedy about the things we lose in crossing linguistic borders.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
Wagner’s message is a simple but deeply humanistic one: We’re all specks in the universe, random, unknowable bio-containers, and who knows where my atoms end and yours begin?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, December 9, 2021
One thing I am certain of: 'Company' is the most sophisticated fun I’ve had in a theater in ages.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIt’s a downbeat fable about escaping the toxic narcissists who created your body.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AMMonday, December 6, 2021
It’s a patriarchal pangender fantasy that simultaneously de-centers and re-centers cishetero masculinity. Fancy lingo for: kinda outdated and icky.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:49AMSunday, November 28, 2021
He will continue to shape the future of musical theater because he trained our ears, set the bar high, and new composers and lyricists will study his work. For a hundred who try, misguidedly…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:33AM 
