Wednesday, November 20, 2024
In Nancy Harris’s “The Beacon,” currently on at the Irish Repertory Theatre, four characters navigate through life’s rough waters. Three make it. One is still lost at sea. The back w…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:15PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
“DRAG: the Musical” which was originally released as a concept album and had brief runs in Los Angeles in 2022 and 2024 has made its way to an off-Broadway theatre at New World Stages. T…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:46PMThe main problem with “Tammy Faye,” currently on at the Palace Theatre is not the vapid lyrics by Jake Shears or the bland book by James Graham. Unfortunately, the “New Broadway Musica…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:43PMFriday, October 25, 2024
The Public Theatre is currently offering the North American Premiere of “Deep History,” written and performed by David Finnigan, which addresses the critical subject of global warming an…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:35PMThursday, October 24, 2024
In a recent “New York Times” guest essay, Drew Lichtenberg writes that although “the American theater’s relationship to the Bard might be fraying” with “a long history of theater…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:00PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
Something old becomes new again with the current production of “Yellow Face” by Roundabout Theatre, which has been produced nationally, and internationally since it opened off-Broadway a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:43PMIt has been a long journey for “The Roommate,” the dark comedy by Jen Silverman, to finally arrive on Broadway since its premiere in 2015 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Fest…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:55PMMonday, October 21, 2024
At first glance, Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Vladimir,” currently at New York City Center Stage I, might receive a “what’s new” reaction from the audience. But the importance Erika…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:53AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Strings McCrane (a complex, unsettled, and conflicted Adam Driver) did not need to be overly mindful when he was a world-famous country and western singer and a movie star: he had teams deci…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMSunday, October 13, 2024
The Orpheum Theatre is hosting the newest campy musical “The Big Gay Jamboree,” with a book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage. Ms. Mindelle, who is known for the cult favorite …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:52PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machin…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMMonday, October 7, 2024
“McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:06PMThursday, October 3, 2024
New York: Outer Critics’ Circle award-nominated Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will prese…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:40PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
After its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production “Our Class,” by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and helmed by Ukrainian-born, Jewi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:36AMMonday, September 30, 2024
In Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” the four Webb sisters gather in the summer of 1976 at Seaview the guesthouse on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort on…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:52PMThursday, September 26, 2024
The timing of the opening of Stephen Sachs “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II could not be more auspicious. Based on the true story of the 18-year-old high school senior f…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
The latest production to open at MCC Theatre is the world premiere of the new play “Table 17” penned by Douglas Lyons and under the direction of Zhailon Levingston. The title refers to a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:45PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Around the Sun, the award-winning, anthology audio drama series created by Brad Forenza and presented via the Broadway Podcast Network, has announced its season four cast. The announcement c…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:32PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Jakob Karr’s “Ain’t Done Bad,” currently running at the Irene Diamond Stage, portrays the familiar story of a young LGBTQ man (Jakob Karr) attempting to grapple with his sexual ident…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:50AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
The latest revival to open on Broadway is the classic “Once Upon a Mattress” with music by Mary Rogers, her first Broadway show, and an adapted book by Amy Sherman-Palladino, from the or…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:02PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, will release the original cast recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s acclaimed autobiographical musical Sy…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:56AMSaturday, August 3, 2024
At the beginning of “Job” which is currently running at the Helen Hayes Theater, Jane (a frenetic yet oddly focused Sydney Lemmon) enters Lloyd’s (a seemingly focused yet not fully at …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:59PMMonday, July 29, 2024
Soho Rep (Directors Cynthia Flowers, Caleb Hammons, Eric Ting) and Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, Managing Director Casey York), two of New York’s most influentia…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:24PMFriday, June 28, 2024
Twenty-one-year-old Sally Poppy (a powerful yet broken Haley Wong) is convicted of murdering young Alice Wax and sentenced to hang in March of 1759 on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, in E…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:53PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The newest offering at Second Stage’s Kiser Theatre is a production of a new play penned by Alexis Scheer titled “Breaking the Story” which centers around a war correspondent who is ac…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:25AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
The most recent offering at MCC Theater is a new musical entitled “The Lonely Few” with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and a book penned by Rachel Bonds. Basically, it can be considered …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:00AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Ridi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMSunday, April 7, 2024
There are very few words not sung but spoken in the rock musical “Tommy,” but three that might be relevant are “Brilliant, wasn’t it?” spoken by a local lad that happens to be part…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:52PMThursday, April 4, 2024
When does “life” begin? Depending upon one’s religious beliefs, or scientific beliefs, or social media threads, the answer to the question is different. Does “life” begin at concep…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:36AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Adapted by Eddie Izzard’s sibling Mark Izzard, this “Hamlet” is among the best “Hamlets” on stage, screen, or stream. From the first scene of the iconic tragedy on the battlements …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:30PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. Mc…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:44AM 
