Friday, November 14, 2025
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Direct from a sold-out, record-breaking, Olivier Award-winning West End run, Sophocles’ epic tragedy i…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:54AMIcke’s change in timeline trades catastrophe for suspense, ontological disaster for down-to-the-cuticles nail biting. Is this a fair exchange? Maybe. Is it electrifying? God, yes. The resu…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:54AMHis Oedipus, while glowing with his usual whip-smart language, doesn’t have much fun in the toppling. Each domino falls (“I killed who?! You’re my what?”) with complete earnestness, …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:54AMMark Strong and Lesley Manville, giving two of this year’s great performances, lead a brilliant cast that turns this millennia-old story of pride and familial dysfunction into a timely pol…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:54AMThe biggest pleasure of this prestige production is watching how Icke pastes these modern references onto a classic story. It’s often fun to watch, but never more than clever.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMIt’s where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor—utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMReid, Strong and Manville are transfixing as awful revelation after revelation comes to light. Strong’s nice guy gives way to brutishness and boiling blood, and Manville’s heretofore sta…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMAnd above all there is his wife, Jocasta, who—as played by the great Lesley Manville—is a creature of effortless fascination: confident, worldly, intelligent, practical passionate, sexua…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMIcke’s work is really something: I can’t recall ever previously being as riveted at a Greek tragedy. And my admiration for his show is increased by how Icke manages to stay remarkably tr…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMThe taut spin on “Oedipus” now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles’ ancient play in…
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:04AMAnd Chenoweth is a wonder, sounding a little bit country whenever Jackie is most herself, as in “Each and Every Day,” a love song to the infant Victoria; taking her high notes out for a …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMSaddled with an unmemorable score by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin) and a confused book by Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans), Versailles glides by as bland bio-musical for much of …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMThis A-list team has been able to create some genuinely arresting moments, but they are fleeting in a busy show that still doesn’t quite know what story it wants to tell. It’s like a hou…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMThere is a two-hour-and-40-minute luxury-car crash happening at the St. James Theatre. If I were the litigious type, I’d be trying to figure out how to sue for whiplash. Instead, here I am…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMThe performances, including a megatallented ensemble, are also excellent. As expected, Chenoweth is a force, and though Jackie isn’t really a “likable” figure, the Emmy Award winner dr…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMLike the 90,000–square-foot, $100-million palace that the Siegels are determined to build for themselves in Orlando, The Queen of Versailles is nothing if not ambitious. But like that same…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMI hoped the tag-team of Chenoweth and Arden would have magic to do. No such luck. The actress is a theatrical force, as everybody knows, but Simone Biles can’t do a back handspring on a to…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:02AMMuch like the ill-fated Tammy Faye from last year, Versailles (directed by Michael Arden) toggles between different modus operandi — in this case, campy comedic sendup, surface level socia…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:01AMBut The Queen of Versailles isn’t camp. It’s cheap tat, queasy spectacle, grubby glitz. It doesn’t burrow beneath its surface wealth to ask anything of substance.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:01AMThursday, October 30, 2025
Set on the remote edge of a small Idaho town, LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD centers on a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew who find themselves suddenly back in each other’s lives �…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:48PMAs played by a glorious Laurie Metcalf in Samuel D. Hunter’s keen-eyed, compassionate play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” which opened on Thursday night at the Booth Theater, she is also on…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMLittle Bear Ridge Road is a quietly triumphant debut for Hunter, an American playwright who sees the country we truly inhabit, rather than the one we like to imagine we do.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMMoments of big emotion in “Little Bear Ridge Road” don’t fall flat, exactly, but they don’t play to Hunter’s strengths as a writer; he’s better in small, askew gestures.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMLittle Bear Ridge Road, which runs about 95 minutes (with no intermission), serves as a showcase and masterclass of Metcalf’s acting abilities and command of the stage. Over and over again…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMIn Little Bear Ridge Road, Metcalf racks up the hits with ease, though the production feels more like watching home run derby than a full game. I couldn’t escape the nagging sensation, as …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMThe Orion’s Belt comments prefigure all sorts of big discussions to come about cancer and meth addiction and child abuse. They are the same tropes that other, lesser playwrights stick in t…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMThis production, directed with superb acerbity by Joe Mantello, marks the playwright’s overdue Broadway debut, and it doesn’t disappoint. The play is a multifaceted gem, exquisitely shap…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMHunter is a master at creating these types of indelibly flawed characters, and his sensitive writing is beautifully complemented by Joe Mantello’s typically precise direction and the super…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMNow that I am done telling friends to grab tickets to Little Bear Ridge Road, let’s tell you about Samuel D. Hunter’s latest drama, which opened on Thursday at the Booth Theatre. Little …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free…
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