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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Review:Admissions at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Joshua Harmon's satire targets the very audience buying tickets to see his play

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:48AM
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Review: Later Life at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A. R. Gurney' economically cast 1993 dramady brought back to life at the Keen Company's Theatre Row hom

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:51PM
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Review:Good for Ottoat curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

David Rabe's epic-length look at mental health care

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10PM

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Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris big-cast, time-traving saga proves that economics can be lots of fun

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Review: Amy and the Orphans at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Lindsey Ferrentino has written an extraordinary play about an ordinary American family. It packs all the elements of a Greek tragedy into just ninety minutes.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:41PM
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Review: The Amateurs at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Jordan Harrison's new play tackles disasters though the ages with two distinct theatrical styles

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:28AM
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife & The Zoo Story Review at curtainup.com/l by Elyse Sommer

a finely acted and staged version of Mr. Albee's first play that's now a two-act play that takes us to Peter's home before heading to his park bench meet-up with a volatile…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:02PM
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Review: Kings at curtainup.com/http://www.curtainup.com/kingspublic18.html by Elyse Sommer

Playwright Sarah Burgess takes on the alliances of our legislators and the influence peddling lobbyists and their paid matchmakers. Our Review  

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:11PM
Monday, February 12, 2018

Review: Bar Mitzvah Boy at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The invaluable York Theater's Musical Mufti series' new version of little known Jule Styne musical.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35PM
Friday, November 10, 2017

Review:The Band's Visit on Broadway at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Charming as ever. Don't miss it!

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:45AM
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Review:Office Hour at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Julia Cho's play at the Public is painfully, perhaps too much so, timely

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Review:Junk at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

If Shakespeare were still with us and writing history plays about kings and those seeking to usurp them, he'd not be looking to Holinshed's Chronicles for plot ideas. Instead, like Ayad Akhtar, he'd subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times< to find his dramatic personae

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Review: M.Butterfly at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

David Henry Hwang's bizarre East-West socio-political romance, updated and back on Broadway

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:00PM

Review: Illyria at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Nelson takes us back to 1958 when Public Theate founder Joe Papp faced the collapse of his dream of free Shakespeare productions. Given where it's runing the Shakespeare festival…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:50AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Review:The Last Match at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Though you don't have to be…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:01AM

Review:The Portuguese Kid at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

John Patrick Shanley is back with another comedy about moonstruck losers. . .this one aiming for freshness with a running "how could you vote for Trump" joke

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Friday, October 20, 2017

Review: Torch Song at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

After almost half a century Harvey Fierstein's story about drag queen Arnold Beckoff's quest for a satisfying love and family life is dated, an artifact of gay history on stag…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:42AM
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Time and the Conways at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

J. B. Priestley's 1937 "time play" presents us with a diverse representatives of the British middle class attempting to prosper and regain its equilibrium in the years between the t…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:32AM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Review:  The Home Place at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Brian Friel's final visit to Ballybeg at the Irish Rep

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:09AM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Review:No Wake at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Playwright William Donnelly t doesn't always manage to make the glib banter and more painful undercurrents mesh fluidly, there is a lot that's heart-touching and compelling here.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:15PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Review:Desperate Measures at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

the emphasis in this very loose take on Shakespeare's play is on comedy and the fine cast and ear-pleasing score succeed in making it wonderfully entertaining

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:26PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Review: As You Like It at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

For most of its 100 minutes, John Doyle's production doubles its pleasures. That's even though the running time has probably been cut to half of its usual length and there a…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:48PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Review:The Treasurer at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Max Posner depiction of one man's battle with the slings and arrows tossed at his aging mother and the sleeping demons of resentment they stir in him isn't light entertai…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:53AM
Monday, September 25, 2017

Review: Mary Jane at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Director Anne Kauffman hit the perennial nail on the head in describing Amy Herzog's title character as a modern day Job

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:50PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Small World at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

a small, well-acted play about two men with very big egos

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:09PM

Review:; The Violin at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Outstanding performances make Dan McCormick's 3-hander about a lost Stradivari worth seeing

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:43PM
Monday, September 18, 2017

Review:In the Blood at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

unning new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' 2nd Red Letter Play.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:26AM
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Review:On the Shore of the Wide World at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

an early Simon Stephens play at the Atlantic Theater

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Review:For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Even with a committed cast, headed by Kathleen Chalfant this one act meditation on aging and dying never escapes feeling like watching someone's home movies with commenta…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:21AM

Review: The Rape of the Sabine Women at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Michael Yates Crowley's uses a ambitious exploration of a persistent rape culture as experienced by an American high school girl

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Monday, September 11, 2017

Review: F**king A at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

director and cast give new life to Suzan-Lori Parks' 2003 play that's as relentlessly downbeat and bloody as any Greek tragedy

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:47PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre