Monday, April 7, 2025
White has crafted an intriguing and intellectually ambitious revival, one that embraces the brutal emotional honesty of Brown’s source material.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMWhitney White’s revival is sleek and unpretentious—Stacey Derosier’s lights, elegantly juxtaposing oranges, golds, and blues, are particularly lovely in helping to score the story’s …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMIn the ugly revival of a work that doesn’t belong on Broadway in the first place, the pair’s already monotonous journey becomes a textureless concert that’s frustratingly hard to track…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMThe score, as ever, is jammed with gems. But like a troubled couple, the production has issues. Under the direction of Whitney White, Warren and Jonas overdo their performances, pushing too …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMIn a season of overhyped shows, the evident sincerity, the effort, the fervent belief in character – and Warren’s occasional transcendence – feels refreshing.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMBoth of these performers are, of course, whopping musical talents and their mutual vocal prowess is very much on display to the obvious delight, especially, of the many Jonas fans in the hou…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:14AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Tune in to the golden age of broadcast journalism and Edward R. Murrow’s (Clooney) legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:50AMClooney’s glamour, abetted by David Cromer’s suave direction, does a lot of that work; even when the actor is in some remote corner of Scott Pask’s huge and infinitely reconfiguring se…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:50AMDirector David Cromer successfully activates the stage, orchestrating that kinetic hum we associate with a network newsroom. And scenic designer Scott Pask’s set is a wonder, particularly …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:49AMAn empty reassembly of their screenplay, with period chicness substituting for tension, the play doesn’t trust the audience to see the parallels between past and present, creating little m…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMThis transfer from screen to stage is as intense and laser-focused as the penetrating gaze coming from its star and co-writer, George Clooney.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMIt’s quite a beginning, but then that curtain rises, and as lovingly detailed as Pask’s newsroom set is, Cromer has to enliven a still highly cinematic script in a wide-open theatrical s…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMIf the drama at times seems almost as educational as it is theatrical, David Cromer’s deluxe production remains classy, absorbing entertainment. It conjures the professional milieu with ev…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMGood Night, and Good Luck certainly doesn’t lack point of view or conviction, but neither of those things can do much with an overly familiar story, a lack of subtlety and an odd tone of u…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMGood news, everybody! You don’t just have to settle for seeing superstar George Clooney on a screen anymore. You can now go see him in person… on a screen!
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMAs a polemical warning bell, the show is earnest and heartfelt. It is considerably less successful as a piece of theater.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMBy the end, “Good Night, and Good Luck” manages what evening news shows have reliably done for decades: It makes the viewer sleepy.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 01:48AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
A group of Chicago real-estate salesmen battle ruthlessly for the big deal in David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:59AMIt’s not just because this is such a patchy production, or because Odenkirk and McKean are nevertheless so good in it, that the losers make the biggest impressions. The winners, once glamo…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:57AM[Patrick Marber’s] sharp direction wrings the proper amount of brashness, bullying and dark comedy from the ensemble as they stomp around the toxic office playground.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:56AMPolished, starry, and with nothing to say, this Glengarry sells a McMansion, neither a scam nor a Palace.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:49AMWhat’s missing from this revival of Glengarry Glen Ross is that sense of knife-edge despair that might have made the play seem as harrowing as it is darkly funny. That probably won’t mat…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:49AMCulkin, Odenkirk, Burr and castmates Michael McKean, Donald Webber, Jr., Howard W. Overshown and John Pirruccello are so immersed and, yes, expert, in that sleazy, duplicitous and forever ca…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:49AMIn the main, this is a surprisingly humane “Glengarry” — and that’s no criticism, but it does mean this production is a bit of a surprise.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:44AMThe underpowered revival of the show at the cavernous Palace Theatre could certainly use some caffeine. And heat. That the workplace play, on Broadway for the fourth time, opened last night …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:42AMIndividually, all give sharp-elbowed, effective performances even if, under the direction of Patrick Marber, this staging never quite develops the head of steam that could keep the tension r…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:40AMBecause it is so tautly and distinctively written, and since most of the actors are good, Glengarry Glen Ross still basically works; it still hooks you in. But it doesn’t seal the deal.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:34AMAt one hour 45 minutes, it’s well paced, the technical designs are appropriately realistic and it’s as funny now as it ever was.
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It’s not technology itself that leaves “Dorian Gray” feeling so brittle where “Vanya” is a tear fest. It’s that the technology dominates all other values, including Wilde’s, of…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:56PMThe mounting is an incredible accomplishment — for Snook’s performance and Williams’ tech innovation, yes, but also for its reclamation of a queerness the publicly shamed Wilde couldn�…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:55PMDespite some fancy camera work and close-ups, this production only goes skin-deep. Wilde himself was an aficionado of artifice, which makes the irony here all the more painful, since this pr…
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