Monday, September 29, 2025
As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal mistake that lands him in prison. But as he struggles to accept the consequences of his act…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PM“Punch” comes up short in capturing the exchange between the victim’s family and the perpetrator because it always leans on Jacob’s perspective, down to an ending that shows him happ…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMJames Graham’s play Punch, as directed by Adam Penford, is a very, very British work: it’s sturdily acted, choreo-directed within an inch of its life and shot through with a sense of com…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMIt leads to a luminous climax, arguably the most beautifully written single scene of the year. Jacob, Joan, David, and moderator Nicola (Camila Canó-Flaviá) sit in a simple half-circle, on…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMIt’s quite a story, though not necessarily the kind that makes for the most astonishing theater. That’s not to denigrate Punch, which is solidly built and well-meaning without sanctimony…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMDespite the inherent drama and sadness of the entire situation, Punch too often feels like a PSA for the restorative justice procedure, with lots of exposition and step-by-step procedural in…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMTo criticize a play that tells this story of transformation is to be a grump. But good intentions aren’t enough to make a good play. The suspense leading up to the first meeting between th…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMBold and deeply human, Punch is initially a bit slow on the wind up, but its stellar cast help weave together an almost unbelievable story of compassion and empathy in its second act that le…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMBut while story itself is inspiring, some central emotional focus seems missing from the way it unfolds in Punch, which winds up feeling less like a full-blown play and more like a digressiv…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMJames Graham’s Punch, just brought to New York from England’s Nottingham (approx. 127 miles northwest of London) and London’s fringe, plunges more deeply into emotional areas—almost …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Celebrated actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are real-life friends who are starring on Broadway as two friends searching for meaning in an absurd world. Waiting for Godot is the greatest p…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:28PMWhat’s curious in “Waiting for Godot” is that the textual distillation we have come to expect from Lloyd is largely missing. So is his interpretive stamp. For the most part here, he do…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:28PMTheir finely tuned performances are unshowy and completely in service of the production. They’re neither vaudevillians clowning for our enjoyment nor thespians hamming up each ponderous li…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMNeither one of them is reinventing the wheel, and neither is Lloyd. Despite the absence of a tree—or maybe they’re inside the tree?—it’s a relatively straightforward Waiting for Godo…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMIs Reeves any good? Eh, not really. This particularly meandering and stiff “Godot” is hardly an excellent adventure. Nor, by the way, is it a bogus journey. It’s, as Bill and Ted would…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMAs for the acting, there’s little doubt that Winter is the most natural (and more experienced) stage actor of the two, more versatile and, when necessary, capable to drawing real pathos fr…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMThis production isn’t exactly cracking the material open in any new way, but soars in one particular aspect: the friendship between its leads. Reeves and Winter are old friends playing old…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMLloyd’s production isn’t an embarrassing misfire but it’s underwhelming. This is a work in which the slapstick clowning and the tricky verbal non sequiturs should be merely the surface…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMThe pleasant prospect of seeing Reeves and Winter together makes this production to some extent critic-proof—and anyhow, this is a play in which “Crritic!” is the worst insult that Est…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMThis return match-up (“Together again at last!”) has turned the playwright’s vaudevillian clowns into comics of a cooler sort. If not stoner dudes — they are, after all, both 60ish n…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:26PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris return to the stage in the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award®-winning play ART by Yasmina Reza. Directed by Scott Ellis (Take M…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:14PMThe play itself, however, is a lot more interesting than a mere star vehicle, and is proving to be remarkably resilient. It’s easy to picture similar arguments about buying NFT art, or a P…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:12PMThis first Broadway revival promises luxury and stars; its black-and-white poster has Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris suited-up and laughing expensively, politely. That…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:09PMArt is as smart a commentary on friendship, identity, and the unspoken expectations that tie them together as it ever was. Sure, it’s wrapped in the veneer of high-brow aesthetic debate, b…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:09PMCorden is reasserting himself as a major theater actor, and his turn as the wobbliest vertex of a friendship triangle would, alone, make the new production of this slippery social satire wor…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:09PMThe result is a slender but amusing 90-minute evening of Broadway entertainment. Is it art? Maybe not. But why argue?
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:08PMAs Art‘s three buddies set up their impending conflict, we know exactly where they’re heading. This production eventually rewards our patience, even if we sometimes wish for quicker brus…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:08PMIn this respect, “Art” is a poor man’s “Glengarry Glenross.” Here are plays that are often revived because stars want to appear in them so they can deliver these showy acting-class…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:08PMAs both the heart and the court jester for the show, Corden is superb, a perfectly calibrated level of hysterical, sincere and crisp. One blistering monologue sees him ranting, in the voice …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:08PMIt was hard to know if it was the play or the cast that prevented me from connecting with the characters on a level beyond smug satire.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:08PMMonday, August 18, 2025
Legendary comic Jeff Ross returns home for his long-awaited Broadway debut in TAKE A BANANA FOR THE RIDE — a hilarious, heartfelt one-man show about laughing through the pain, the importan…
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