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Monday, October 24, 2016

Review: David Hyde Pierce puts life into confusing 'A Life' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you want to be puzzled by a play, look no farther than Adam Bock's "A Life," which begins strongly but then peters out. Despite an affec…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:40PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Review: Humor allays tension to complex history in 'Oslo' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Oslo," a new play by J.T. Rogers directed by Bartlett Sher, is a riveting political thriller with a personal approach....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:30AM
Monday, April 4, 2016

Review: Reunion takes unexpected turn in 'Antlia Pneumatica' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ghosts from our past are often in our minds, but thinking they walk among us is another story....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:38PM
Monday, March 14, 2016

Review: Chasing the simple life in 'Hold on to Me Darling' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- How tiresome it must be to be rich, famous and sought-after all the time, right?...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:33PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: A family looks for destiny, meaning in 'Smokefall' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you conjure up memories of scenes from your life and narrate them with hindsight, you would begin to have the structure of Noah Haidle's bittersweet, idea…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:36AM
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Review: Family secrets dug up in harrowing 'Buried Child' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- There's more than one way to damage a child, as evident in Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," a darkly surreal comedy about the decline…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:23AM
Monday, December 14, 2015

Review: Lois Smith gives depth to clever 'Marjorie Prime' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- If we could leave our memories behind after death, would that make us immortal?...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:22PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Review: Goofy 'Important Hats' capped by chiffon-thin plot by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- A madcap power struggle between a pair of rival designers in New York's 1930s fashion industry is the crux of the latest fevered production from Nick Jones..…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:37AM
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Review: Blithe approach to middle-aged gay angst in 'Steve' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you want a lighthearted play about sex and death, with some talented singing thrown in, then The New Group's production of "Steve" will …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:47AM
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Review: 'A View From the Bridge' is haunting, impassioned by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you think you've seen Arthur Miller's dark classic "A View From the Bridge" enough times, think again....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:57PM
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Review: 'Dada Woof Papa Hot' is a tender, well-acted play by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Adjusting to being a caregiver is challenging enough for new parents, even before you add the complexities that come with being a gay parent....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:24AM
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Review: Family stress stars in perceptive drama 'The Humans' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Just in time for the often-stressful holiday family dinner season comes "The Humans," a dark comedy about one family's often-fractious Than…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:25PM
Monday, October 19, 2015

Review: Captives face ugly choices in harrowing 'Eclipsed' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Women have always been treated as part of the spoils of war. How some women might endure captivity and regular rape in squalid, harrowing conditions is explored with …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:34PM
Friday, July 17, 2015

Review: Musical 'Amazing Grace' has you hissing the hero by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- A serious musical with epic themes doesn't come to Broadway that often. The refreshing new show "Amazing Grace" admirably covers slavery, abolition, sedition and spiritu…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:21AM
Monday, June 29, 2015

Review: Patti Lupone takes the limelight in 'Shows For Days' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Community theater gets a lot of knocks for being amateurish, but Douglas Carter Beane may have elevated it to sympathetic comedic heights with his new play "Shows For Da…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:29PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Madness changes brothers in 'An Error of the Moon' by JENNIFER FARRAR

What can you do when your younger brother shoots his way into the history books for all the wrong reasons?

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PM

Fun, Retro Dating Advice in 'Miss Abigail's Guide' by JENNIFER FARRAR

Outdated advice spices up 'Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage!'

SOURCE: ABC News at 05:58PM

Choices fueled by anger, poverty in 'Good People' by Jennifer Farrar

Smartly directed by Daniel Sullivan, the often-caustic production provides a humane, realistic and absorbing examination of ordinary people's behavior when their world is threatened.

SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PM
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Exuberant 'American in Paris' A Broadway Highlight by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK — This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the multiple …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:09PM

Exuberant 'American in Paris' A Broadway Highlight by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK - This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the multiple Os…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:09PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Review: O'Hara shines in mostly wonderful 'The King and I' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new King in town, and Kelli O'Hara's got him. Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical "The King and I" is getting an elegant, thoughtful revival courtesy o…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:50PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Review: It Shoulda Been You' is inventive satire of weddings by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- A good wedding might offer touching moments, tension, humor and perhaps some surprising revelations. All that and more is provided by the new musical "It Shoulda Been Yo…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:52PM
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Review: Graceful 'An American in Paris' has pizazz and heart by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the m…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:00PM
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Review: Liberation not so easy in stylish 'Heidi Chronicles' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's possible that some aspects of women's liberation weren't really so liberating, after all, as Wendy Wasserstein dared to suggest in her 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning p…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:11PM
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Theater: Chenoweth soars in manic 'On the Twentieth Century' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- The effervescent revival of the 1978 musical comedy "On the Twentieth Century" that just steamed into the American Airlines Theatre marks a bewitching Broadway return fo…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:22PM
Monday, March 2, 2015

Review: Love is tested in 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Love and sex are both pretty big topics, and while Bathsheba Doran's new play, "The Mystery of Love & Sex," illuminates both with gentle humor, it's also about how s…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:36PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Theater Review: 'Abundance' is a tragicomic look at Old West by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- In sagas about the American Wild West, pioneers were brave and true-hearted cowboys and homesteaders tamed the savage land while their womenfolk happily tended hearth an…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:43PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Review: Racism provocative 'Rasheeda Speaking' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the subject is racism, many people start to feel uncomfortable. Defensive or outraged; pick your side. It's not a neutral topic, and "Rasheeda Speaking,"a new play …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:54PM
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Zany romp through 'Into The Woods' has bewitching singing by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Why go "Into the Woods" through the musical play when the big, splashy Disney movie is everywhere? Because a streamlined, refreshingly irreverent version of the 1987 the…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:18PM
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Timeless truths in engaging, playful 'Constellations' by Jennifer Farrar

NEW YORK (AP) -- Boy meets girl - again and again, with different outcomes each time. Constellations may be fixed in our universe, but beneath them, the human race just might be living i…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:07PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards