Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Merrily We Roll Along was and shall always remain a hot mess of a musical. Based on a longer-running if also financially unsuccessful 1934 play of the same name by Kaufman and Hart, Merr…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:12AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Closing notices have been posted for Jordan E. Cooper's wonderful Ain't No Mo', which is a shame: the show, which only opened on Broadway three weeks ago, richly deserves to connect with …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:32PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Sometime right after the 9/11 bombings, I had a nightmare: I was doubled over with laughter in a comedy club, when a plane crashed through the roof. It was a pretty straightforward dream, bo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:03PMFriday, December 17, 2021
Sometimes--maybe especially when the whole world is screaming and sad and broken--a not-very-good musical can be the perfect balm. On Broadway at the Longacre for a few more days before it s…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:42PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Hi, it's been a while because--well, you know. But I'm back with news of Diana: The Musical, which received mixed to positive reviews during its 2019 La Jolla run, despite what were cited…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:06PMFriday, February 21, 2020
While it seems that a good half the theater-going public in and around New York City hotly disagrees with me, I'm squarely in the camp that believes Ivo Van Hove's maximal minimalism fails …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:42PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
There's a lot going on in Jagged Little Pill, which has to be the wokest jukebox musical you're likely to see on Broadway lately. Built around the era-defining third album of the same name b…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:36PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Midway through Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith's moving and generous one-person show about the 1991 Crown Heights riots, Robert Sherman, the head of the City of New York's Increase t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:33PMFriday, October 18, 2019
On the surface, Betrayal is about entitled Londoners who meet for fancy lunches, during which they chat about art and literature and the best way to get to Torcello from Venice during summe…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:12PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
It took me a very long time to see Fidler afn Dakh (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish)--more on that in a minute--but I'm glad I pushed myself to go. In slowing down the musical's often frenet…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:12PMThursday, June 6, 2019
There are plenty of pleasures to be had at the Marquis Theater, where Tootsie, starring a is running and probably will be for a while. The show is often quite funny; the cast is solid; Da…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:24AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
It's a sad song
It's a sad tale, it's a tragedy
It's a sad song
But we sing it anyway
'Cause here's the thing:
To know how it ends
And still begin to sing it again
As if it might turn o…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:58PM 
