Thursday, March 29, 2018
★★★★★ Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill shine and pierce in a new production of the Pulitzer-winning play.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
★★★★★ Playwright and director Simon Stone finds both enduring and fresh relevance in a classic tragedy.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
★★ An homage to rock gods and their classical forebears offers all the subtlety of Spinal Tap's tribute to Stonehenge.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMSunday, March 25, 2018
★★★★★ Tony Kushner's American masterwork remains topical, trenchant, and transcendent in this new production.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PMMonday, March 12, 2018
★★★★ Jessica Hecht plays a dean trying to drag an elite prep school into the 21st century in Josh Harmon's new comedy.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMFriday, March 9, 2018
Public transportation in New York City has become such a comedy of errors that it’s hard to imagine any work of fiction capturing its full absurdity. The big-hearted a cappella showcase In…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:12AMIt took plenty of innovation and renovation. Interview with Thomas Schumacher About Frozen the Broadway Musical - Bringing Disney's Frozen to Broadway
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★★★ The cast is excellent, but at nearly three hours, this mix of reflection and whimsy isn’t always smooth.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:45PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Legendary director/producer/writer Garry Marshall wanted to fulfill a longtime goal: to bring his 1990 smash romantic comedy Pretty Woman to the stage as a musical. To do this, Marshall ha…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:00PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Like most of his castmates in the hit musical Come From Away, Caesar Samayoa has appeared in a number of productions, on and off Broadway and in regional theater. “But I have never seen a …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:10AMHusband-and-wife team David Hein and Irene Sankoff began the creative journey that would lead to the critically acclaimed Broadway hit Come From Away with some trepidation. “When we starte…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:05AMMonday, February 5, 2018
After decades of television and film work, Anthony Edwards is revisiting his roots in a decidedly high-profile setting. On March 22, the actor and director — an alumnus of the hit series &…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:42AMMonday, January 22, 2018
The last time singer/songwriter Jason Mraz had a paid acting gig, he was 21 years old. “It was a community production,” he recalls, “of something no one saw.” Two decades later, Mraz…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:38PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The Plastics are back and ready to paint the town pink in their Broadway bow. For the uninitiated, that group, introduced to movie fans in 2004’s comedy classic Mean Girls, isn’t a rock …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 08:00AMThursday, January 4, 2018
In a new show, the Broadway and television star is paying tribute to the late 1950s pop singer whose musical virtuosity is now little-recognized.
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For those who keep track of celebrity appearances on Broadway, 2017 did not disappoint, offering plenty of opportunities to either relish an established star or catch a rising one. In the fi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:58AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
In 2017, truth wasn’t just stranger than fiction; it was defined in sometimes conflicting terms. Theater’s ability to bring people of different opinions and beliefs together — for ente…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:27PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Director Pam MacKinnon has blazed a path in New York theater and on stages elsewhere, with nuanced but unsparing portraits of human struggle. She brought audiences her shattering Tony Award�…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:09PMMonday, November 27, 2017
When Tony Award–winning director Christopher Ashley signed on to helm Escape to Margaritaville, a new musical featuring the songs of beloved troubadour and author Jimmy Buffett, he was not…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:23PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Although she has been one of our most reliably groundbreaking stage and screen directors for decades, Julie Taymor is loath to “dwell too much on the ‘woman’ thing,” as she puts it. …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:05AMMonday, November 6, 2017
When Julie Taymor was first approached to direct and design a stage adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King, she had not yet seen the blockbuster animated film. But 20 years after opening on …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:03PMMonday, May 1, 2017
Biello and Martin's new off-Broadway musical, 'Marry Harry,' goes looking for love in the big city. Elysa Gardner reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:09PMThursday, January 19, 2017
In “Tell Hector I Miss Him,” the young Puerto Rican playwright Paola Lázaro draws on intense personal experiences to create very human characters.
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It's two hours before curtain at the John Golden Theatre, where the first Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy— the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that became an Oscar-winning film &…
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:58PMFor anyone who has spent the past decade lamenting the rise of jukebox musicals, Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles on Broadway (* * ½ out of four) is either a new low point or a refreshingly h…
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:58PMIt seems sadly fitting that the first New York revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (* * * ½ out of four) should arrive toward the end of an election season that …
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:58PMThe final Kander and Ebb musical, The Scottsboro Boys (* * * out of four), now in its Broadway premiere, seems determined to challenge even the most sophisticated and inured audiences.
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:58PMNo one, or nothing, seems to stay put in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (* * ½ out of four), the new musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's 1988 film.
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:58PM 
