All stories by David Roberts on BroadwayStars

Monday, November 14, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Catch as Catch Can" at Playwrights Horizons (Through Sunday, November 20, 2022) by David Roberts

Playwright Mia Chung intends to raise a rich and enduring question in her play "Catch as Catch Can" currently running at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater: "What is inherent in ou…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:00PM[SHARE]

Off-Broadway Review: "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Public Theater's Newman Theater (Extended through Sunday, November 20, 2022) by David Roberts

Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" debuted on Broadway in 1959 and appeared in London's West End five months later. The musical adaptation "Raisin" won the Tony Award for Best Musica…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:05AM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: The Civilians "The Unbelieving" at 59E59 Theaters (Through Saturday, November 19, 2022) by David Roberts

Marin Gazzaniga's "The Unbelieving" is based on select interviews from the 2013 book "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind" by Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola. The authors intervi…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Chester Bailey" at Irish Repertory Theatre (Extended through Sunday, November 20, 2022) by David Roberts

Every once in a while, there comes along a little gem of a play that certainly will knock you off your feet, especially if it is a first-rate production and impeccably performed by two remar…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:04PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Broadway Review: "Death of a Salesman" at the Hudson Theatre (Through Sunday, January 15, 2023) by David Roberts

Some may say that Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" may be the greatest play of the 20th century and there is evidence that supports that claim. It premiered on Broadway in 1949, wi…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:14PM[SHARE]
Monday, October 31, 2022

Broadway Review: "1776" at Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre (Through Sunday, January 8, 2023) by David Roberts

Sometimes there is no reason to try and improve or change something which would adhere to the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Adjusting, tweaking, or trying to improve things when t…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:51PM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "A Man of No Importance" Disappoints at Classic Stage Company" (Extended through Sunday, December 18, 2022) by David Roberts

Currently running at Classic Stage Company, "A Man of No Importance" chronicles gay middle-aged bus conductor Alfie Byrnes's (a gloomy and dispirited Jim Parsons) struggles to claim his agen…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:00PM[SHARE]
Friday, October 21, 2022

Broadway Review: "Topdog/Underdog" at the Golden Theatre (Through Sunday, January 15, 2023) by David Roberts

In the current 20th anniversary production of "Topdog/Underdog," Suzan Lori-Parks reminds the audience that when one does not receive unconditional and nonjudgmental love and chooses to disc…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:00PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "american (tele)visions" Co-Produced with Theatre Mitu at New York Theatre Workshop (Through Sunday, October 16, 2022) by David Roberts

There is too much noise on the set of Victor I. Cazares's "american (tele)visions" currently running at New York Theatre Workshop (co-produced with Theatre Mitu). Although that noise comes f…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:52PM[SHARE]

Book News/Preview: Elysa Gardner's "Magic to Do" Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of "Pippin" Opening (Releases in November 2022) by David Roberts

Applause Books is proud to announce the November 2022 release of Magic to Do (192 pages ' 978-1-4930-6435-9' Hardback) by Elysa Gardner. In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:02AM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Broadway Review: "Cost of Living" at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Through Sunday, November 6, 2022) by David Roberts

"Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:00PM[SHARE]
Monday, September 26, 2022

Regional News/Preview: "Evita" at Bucks County Playhouse (Through Sunday, October 30, 2022) by David Roberts

The rags to riches story of one of the world's most charismatic and controversial political figures receives a new look, in an exciting, intimate production at Bucks County Playhouse, runnin…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:27PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: OHenry Productions "This Beautiful Future" at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Through Sunday, October 30, 2022) by David Roberts

Elodie (Francesca Carpanini) and Otto (Uly Schlesinger) reunite in a bedroom after they meet in a town square in Chartres, France in August 1944. Crazy things happened in the square includin…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Los Otros" at A.R.T./New York Theatres " Mezzanine Theatre (Through Saturday, October 8, 2022) by David Roberts

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the definition of "cycle" is a permutation of a set of ordered elements in which each element takes the place of the next and the last becomes the…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:45AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Broadway News/Previews: "Kimberly Akimbo" Opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on Thursday, November 10, 2022 by David Roberts

The box office for the critically lauded and wildly popular new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, will open on Wednesday, September 7 at 10 a.m. at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). The Boot…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:48PM[SHARE]

Broadway News/Previews: "Sweeney Todd" Begins Performances at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on February 26, 2023 by David Roberts

Tony and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford will both return to Broadway this spring in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fl…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:43AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 29, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Kinky Boots" at Stage 42 (Currently On) by David Roberts

Theatergoers who missed the successful Broadway production of "Kinky Boots" should make their way to Stage 42 for the Off-Broadway revival which will be sure to please. A more condensed vers…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:00AM[SHARE]
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages' "On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022) by David Roberts

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo's "On That Day in Amsterdam" (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted st…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:48AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 22, 2022

Broadway Review: "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The most recent revival of the 1987 Broadway musical "Into the Woods" featuring music and lyrics from the late, great Stephen Sondheim is now making its triumphant return, playing at the St.…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:00AM[SHARE]

Off-Broadway Review: "The Butcher Boy" at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, September 11, 2022) by David Roberts

As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and s…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:37AM[SHARE]
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Off-Broadway News/Preview: "Merrily We Roll Along" Opens at New York Theatre Workshop on December 12, 2022 (Through January 8, 2023) by David Roberts

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Jonathan Groff will star as "Franklin" and Lindsay Mendez wil…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:14PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Off-Broadway News: St. Anne's Emerges from the Pandemic More Ambitious Than Ever! by David Roberts

Drawing inspiration from concerts that evolved from Brooklyn front porches to its own rooftop balcony and large-scale exhibitions mounted on its exterior facade, St. Ann's Warehouse returns,…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:25PM[SHARE]

Dance News: The Joyce Theater Foundation Announces Danni Gee New Director of Programming Effective September 12, 2022 by David Roberts

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is pleased to welcome Danni Gee as the organization's new Director of Programming, effective September 12, 2022. A f…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:46AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Off-Broadway Preview/News: "Melissa Etheridge Off-Broadway: My Window " A Journey Through Life" at New World Stages (Through Sunday. October 23, by David Roberts

Producers Michael Cohl and EMC Presents, in association with Larry Mestel, Deborah Klein, and Steven Greener for Primary Wave Music announce today the world premiere of Grammy & Academy …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:05PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 12, 2022

Off-Broadway Preview: "Four Saints in Three Acts" at The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater (Through Sunday, October 9, 2022) by David Roberts

The Lucille Lortel Theatre presents a solo play presentation of Four Saints in Three Acts, starring renowned actor David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude) interpreting 66 unique ro…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:39PM[SHARE]
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Dance News/Preview: The Joyce Theatre Foundation Presents Alan Cumming in "Burn" (Tuesday, September 20, 2022, through Sunday, September 25, 2022) by David Roberts

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) celebrates the opening of its Fall '22/Winter'23 season with not only a Joyce debut, but the U.S. dance theater debut of a…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:59PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at The Theater at St. Clements (Through Sunday, August 14, 2022) by David Roberts

"Skipper and me had a clean, true thing between us!"had a clean friendship, practically all our lives, till Maggie got the idea you're talking about. Normal? No!"It was too rare to be normal…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:34AM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Between the Lines" at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage (Through Sunday, October 2, 2022) by David Roberts

"Fairy Tales" and "Happily Ever After" have been great fodder for musical theater usually targeting multi-generational audiences, being prudent to include visual and intellectual content tha…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:59AM[SHARE]
Friday, July 22, 2022

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Shubert Theatre Review: "Much Ado About Nothing" (Through Sunday, August 7, 2022) by David Roberts

Under director Matt Pfeiffer's helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of "Much Ado About Nothing" bring Shakespeare's late comedy (1598 or shortly the…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:08PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: "Epiphany" Tackles Wonder Head-On at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E Newhouse Theater (Through Sunday, July 31, 2022) by David Roberts

In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her "very big house, on the b…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:19PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT) Production of "Fat Ham" at the Public's Anspacher Theater (Extended thr by David Roberts

Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris H…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:20PM[SHARE]

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off