Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Todd Haimes Theatre, New York
A hit-and-miss coming-of-age tale from late playwright Samm-Art Williams covers aspects of the Black experience with detail, but uneven direction distracts
In S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThursday, April 25, 2024
The Broadway Theatre, New York
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel makes an underwhelming transfer to the stage in a bombastic yet misfiring new production
The musical currently playing at the Broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMThursday, March 14, 2024
Schoenfeld Theatre, New York
The much-loved romantic drama, made into a hit movie in 2004, reaches Broadway with some parts intact but with others sorely missing
For diehard fans of romantic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
New York City Center, New York
David Zayas and Cecily Strong try to breathe life into a small-scale tale but are betrayed by lackluster dialogue and a thin plot
It’s hard to discern a high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMTuesday, December 19, 2023
The two-time Pulitzer prize finalist talks his starry Broadway play Appropriate and handling the pressures put on Black playwrights
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins invites you to look.
The playwright…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, November 3, 2023
American Airlines Theatre, New York
A funny performance from the actor is the only saving grace of Theresa Rebeck’s messy comedy drama about a hoarder
Dear non-Black playwrights with a pan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
The Shed, New York
The legendary composer and lyricist’s take on two surrealist Luis Buñuel movies is a patchy satire
With much anticipation, Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York
The Harlem-set comedy drama is a delightful ode and visual feast, but efforts to cover too much ground are a hindrance
An African hair braiding shop is it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
The Mark Taper Forum’s new season – featuring female and non-binary playwrights – was scratched and layoffs were announced
A theater that has become the mainstay of Los Angeles’ arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMThursday, April 13, 2023
American Airlines Theatre, New York
James Ijames’s electrifying take on Shakespeare’s classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update
James Ijames’s Fat Ham dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, March 9, 2023
Hudson Theatre, New York
The Oscar winner makes for an exceptional Nora in a visually muted yet emotionally effective remount of Ibsen’s classic drama
Gone is the elaborate 19th-century ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30PMFriday, December 9, 2022
James Earl Jones Theatre, New York
The Broadway debut of 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy provides its captivating lead star with stellar moments but lacks insight
Ohio State Murders …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Belasco Theatre, New York
Jordan E Cooper’s lively and provocative Broadway debut has moments of insight and wit but some of its targets feel dated
“Ain’t no mo tears to be shed. Ain�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Golden Theatre, New York
The actor makes a searing impact in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, struggling to get by in America
Abraham Lincoln wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19PMThursday, October 13, 2022
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
John David Washington and Samuel L Jackson star in a tonally misjudged drama oddly played for awkward laughs
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is not a com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
The actor has become the first openly trans performer to receive a Tony nomination for her role in the Pulitzer prize-winning musical A Strange Loop
L Morgan Lee, the first openly trans pers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Lyceum Theatre, New York
The audacious and uproarious musical, which leads this year’s Tony nominations, is a meta masterpiece about a Black queer writer writing about a Black queer writer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMWednesday, May 11, 2022
A Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s ‘choreopoem’ shows how it remains relevant
In the first five minutes of the late artist Ntozake Shange’s masterwork, for colored…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMMonday, October 18, 2021
John Golden Theatre, New York
The first Broadway show to be written, directed by, starring and produced by Black artists offers a patchy mix of insight and unoriginality
What does it mean to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, October 11, 2021
Circle in the Square Theatre, New York
A funeral at a Black church promises chaotic and culturally specific comedy but the end-product feels more like a broad, lukewarm sitcom
“It’s not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PM 
