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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

To My Girls: ‘Boys in the Band,’ Unsuccessfully Updated in Palm Springs by Jesse Oxfeld

★★☆☆☆ Playwright JC Lee tries and fails to create a compelling portrait of 30-something gay male friendship today The post To My Girls: ‘Boys in the Band,’ Unsuccessfully Updat…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:27PM
Monday, April 4, 2022

Take Me Out: Two Decades Later, and Still Swinging by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★☆ Richard Greenberg's gay-ballplayer comic tragedy fares well in revival, despite mixed performances The post Take Me Out: Two Decades Later, and Still Swinging appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:56PM
Monday, March 28, 2022

Plaza Suite: Feels Like (Very) Old Times by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★☆☆ Sarah Jessica Parker shines, at least, in this dated, disappointing Neil Simon revival The post Plaza Suite: Feels Like (Very) Old Times appeared first on New York Stage Revi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PM
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Chinese Lady: Exoticized, Mistreated, and Still a Cipher by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★☆☆ The story of the first Chinese woman in America is horrifying, and all these years later we're still telling it The post The Chinese Lady: Exoticized, Mistreated, and Still a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:58PM
Friday, February 11, 2022

The Music Man: The Wells Fargo Wagon Delivers the Con Artist We Need by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★★ Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster headline a blockbuster Music Man revival that puts the grin in grift The post The Music Man: The Wells Fargo Wagon Delivers the Con Artist We N…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:54PM
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

MJ: Michael Jackson Jukebox Musical Is Very Smooth, Somewhat Criminal by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★☆☆ The Lynn Nottage-Christopher Wheeldon bioplay is a song-and-dance delight that asks you to forget the biography The post MJ: Michael Jackson Jukebox Musical Is Very Smooth, S…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Mrs. Doubtfire: Dad-Turns-Nanny Comes to Broadway, Manic Charm Intact by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★☆ The Robin Williams vehicle makes a successful transfer, scripted and scored by the 'Something Rotten!' team The post Mrs. Doubtfire: Dad-Turns-Nanny Comes to Broadway, Manic …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Diana: The People’s Princess, Surrounded by the Wrong People by Jesse Oxfeld

★★☆☆☆ Like Charles and Elizabeth before them, a creative team of (minor) Broadway royalty does Lady Spencer no favors The post Diana: The People’s Princess, Surrounded by the Wro…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:21PM
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Assassins: Not Throwing Away Their Shots by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★☆ The Sondheim-Weidman musical feels newly fresh in the Classic Stage Company revival The post Assassins: Not Throwing Away Their Shots appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:35PM
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Pass Over: Waiting for the Po-Po, Hoping for the Promised Land by Jesse Oxfeld

The first new Broadway production in 17 months is an extraordinary Black-lives-matter take on Godot and the Exodus The post Pass Over: Waiting for the Po-Po, Hoping for the Promised Land app…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:51PM
Monday, March 9, 2020

Endlings: Extinction and Creation by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★☆ Celine Song’s powerful NYTW debut looks legacy, obligation, pride, and a dying ancient tradition The post Endlings: Extinction and Creation appeared first on New York Stag…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Girl From the North Country: Bob Dylan, American Poet by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★☆ Irish playwright Conor McPherson constructs a moving, mythical American story inside the singer-songwriter's world The post Girl From the North Country: Bob Dylan, American P…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Monday, February 24, 2020

The Headlands: An Unsuspenseful Mystery, Amid Bay Area Hikes by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Unpacking complicated family history, but with unengaging characters and performances The post The Headlands: An Unsuspenseful Mystery, Amid Bay Area Hikes appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Anatomy of a Suicide: Three Generations, Weighing on Each Other by Jesse Oxfeld

★★ An award-winning play about women, trauma, and legacy, collapsing in on itself The post Anatomy of a Suicide: Three Generations, Weighing on Each Other appeared first on New York Stag…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

A Soldier’s Play: A Stodgy Whodunit, and a Thoughtful Meditation on Racism by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood The post A Soldier’s Play: A Stodgy Whodunit, and a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Thin Place: Crossing Over, Or At Least Trying To by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Lucas Hnath's latest weighs belief and skepticism, whimsy and seriousness The post The Thin Place: Crossing Over, Or At Least Trying To appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM
Monday, December 9, 2019

Greater Clements: Things Fall Apart, Over and Over Again by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter crafts an excellent play, starring Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan, from sad realities The post Greater Clements: Things Fall Apart, Over and Over Again appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Jagged Little Pill: Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Fine, Fine by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical brings down the house, unironically The post Jagged Little Pill: Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Fine, Fine appeared first on New York Stage …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:41PM
Sunday, November 24, 2019

The Young Man From Atlanta: Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-Winner Fizzles in Revival by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ A solid, straightforward staging at the Signature delivers little emotion and no surprises The post The Young Man From Atlanta: Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-Winner Fizzles in Revival …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The Half-Life of Marie Curie: Girl Power, Irradiated by Jesse Oxfeld

★★ Lauren Gunderson, "America's favorite playwright," comes to New York with a historical-feminist melodrama The post The Half-Life of Marie Curie: Girl Power, Irradiated appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Tina: Better Than All the Rest (of the Jukebox Musicals) by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ A triumphant Adrienne Warren powers the best biomusical in years The post Tina: Better Than All the Rest (of the Jukebox Musicals) appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM
Monday, October 28, 2019

The Michaels: Making the Right Moves by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Richard Nelson takes us back to Rhinebeck, with a thoughtful play about time passing, decently The post The Michaels: Making the Right Moves appeared first on New York Stage Rev…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:15PM
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Little Shop of Horrors: Be Careful What You Wish For by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Michael Mayer's lowkey revival, like the clumsy clerk at its center, emphasizes the quirky charms of simplicity The post Little Shop of Horrors: Be Careful What You Wish For app…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Forbidden Broadway: It Just Keeps Rolling (and Rolling) Along by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ The long-running revue is back, still entertaining but not quite sure what it's making fun of The post Forbidden Broadway: It Just Keeps Rolling (and Rolling) Along appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:44PM
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship) by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Baz Luhrmann's hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway The post Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship) appeared first on New Yor…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow: Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ Halley Feiffer's outrageous Chekhov update features a crackerjack cast The post Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow: Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PM
Thursday, June 27, 2019

We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time: Flying Away, Through Art by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ David Cale's one-man show is a moving memoir of horrors and escape, with songs The post We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time: Flying Away, Through Art appeared first on…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Fairview: The Play About Race America Needs Now by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winner is uncomfortably, defiantly spectacular The post Fairview: The Play About Race America Needs Now appeared first on New York Sta…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Thursday, June 13, 2019

The Secret Life of Bees: The Honey Is Sweet, But It Doesn’t Stick by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Duncan Sheik and Sam Gold do their best to make a dramatic musical from milquetoast coming-of-age novel The post The Secret Life of Bees: The Honey Is Sweet, But It Doesn’t Stick…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:49PM
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune: Love Among the (Glamorous) Downtrodden by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★ Terrence McNally's play, funny, wistful, and meticulously acted, doesn't quite deliver in its second revival on Broadway The post Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune: Love Amon…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:16PM
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Beetlejuice: These Ghosts Are Gonna Live Forever by Jesse Oxfeld

★★★★ The song-and-dance adaption of the Tim Burton film is built to please, and it does The post Beetlejuice: These Ghosts Are Gonna Live Forever appeared first on New York Stage Rev…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:46PM

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