Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Mason Pilevsky, Pages on Stages Best Revival of a Play Eureka Day This edgy show about how leftist ideology about inclusivity can be taken too far is scathing in its brilliance, particularly…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30AMSunday, June 1, 2025
Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Best Direction of a Play Knud Adams, English English was a play that required nuance in order to be understood. With the actors switching in and out of accent…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:00AMFriday, May 30, 2025
Workplace Injuries – 29 May 2025 Workplace Injuries is a set of three one act plays, That Picture of You by Eric Maierson, Bookstore by Grant James Varjas, and Diet Coke for the Dead by Jo…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:39PMMonday, May 26, 2025
Cracked Open – 25 May 2025 At first pass, Cracked Open seems like a moving play for audiences who haven’t dealt with serious mental illness. Unfortunately, I not only have multiple diagn…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:33AMSunday, May 25, 2025
Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actor in a Play Glenn Davis, Purpose Glenn Davis undoubtedly has the most demanding role in this show. Every moment he is struggling with deep mental…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:00AMSaturday, May 24, 2025
Good Night, and Good Luck – 22 May 2025 I loved the message and the spirit of Good Night, and Good Luck. It is timely and crucially important to understand the difference between news an…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:30PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
Goddess – 17 May 2025 The energy and impact of Goddess as the best musical I have seen in a very long time was evident from the first downbeat. Every element of this show is original and i…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PMLights Out: Nat “King” Cole – 16 May 2025 Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor have written a deliciously dark masterpiece in this unforgettable production, illuminating Nat “King”…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 06:00PMSunday, May 18, 2025
Bus Stop – 17 May 2025 William Inge’s Bus Stop is a slice of life play set at a bus stop diner in the middle of a storm in Kansas City. The bus is stuck in the ice, and the passengers ar…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:00PMPages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Best Book of a Musical Marco Ramirez, Buena Vista Social Club There’s not much of a book to this one, but it does tie the songs together and keep the focus …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30AMThursday, May 15, 2025
Glengarry Glen Ross – 14 May 2025 Theatre artists today often live in a world of interpreting and improving – but really it’s just about making changes and adding to the canon of what …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:14PMTuesday, May 13, 2025
To Free a Mockingbird – 12 May 2025 To Free a Mockingbird creator and performer Grace Aki delivers a funny, dark, and twisted solo performance at Soho Playhouse. The story works its way t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 06:38PMSunday, May 11, 2025
Smash – 11 May 2025 Although many expect Smash to simply be a fun, comedic musical that’s pure entertainment, I found myself puzzling through some broader themes that came to light in th…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:05PMPages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Direction of a Musical Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club Since the actual text of Buena Vista Social Club is so minimal, it fell on director Saheem Ali to m…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
Operation Mincemeat – 8 May 2025 Most reminiscent of The Producers, Operation Mincemeat leans into the idea that people with highly classified, top secret government jobs can actually be m…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:26AMFloyd Collins – 9 May 2025 Floyd Collins is utterly unlike the rest of this Broadway season’s musicals, and I found it an incredible breath of fresh air. Structured more like an opera th…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:21AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow – 06 May 2025 A high intensity ride through the life of possibly possessed Henry Creel (Louis McCartney), Stranger Things tells a story taking place in …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:36PMSunday, May 4, 2025
Purpose – 04 May 2025 If I had to characterize Purpose in a single word, I think I might say, “hypocritical”—but I’d mean it in a good way. Purpose focuses on family values, but ex…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:21PMPages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actress in a Play Tara Ashe, English Elham was a challenging character because she struggled the most with the language barrier, and Tara Ashe had t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:29PMJohn Proctor is the Villain – 03 May 2025 John Proctor is the Villain examines the shifting perceptions of the status quo and radical redefinitions of feminism in a small town in Georgia …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30AMBuena Vista Social Club – 03 May 2025 The strongest element of Buena Vista Social Club was also the uniting force within the world of the show – the music. Though it didn’t used to…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:00AMSaturday, May 3, 2025
78th Annual Tony Awards Predictions – Mason Pilevsky Beginning Sunday May 4, Pages on Stages will be dropping Tony Award predictions every week until the big night. The first set of predic…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:32PMFriday, May 2, 2025
Just in Time – 02 May 2025 There are few musicians, actors, and performers whose talent can truly transcend genre, and, in Just In Time, Jonathan Groff proves his versatility a thousand t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:42PMThursday, May 1, 2025
Irishtown – 01 May 2025 Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark comedy Irishtown explores the concept of how theatre is created and whether it’s best to stay within the realm of what you know or …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:29PMDeath Becomes Her – 29 April 2024 Death Becomes Her is a show that didn’t work for me, but I’m having a hard time explaining why. The design elements were flawless and beautiful. Each…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 05:43PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Dead Outlaw – 30 April 2025 I applaud Dead Outlaw for being one of the few Broadway shows with genuinely original content, a fully original score, and no need for a television/movie star t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:45PMSunday, April 27, 2025
Real Women Have Curves – 25 April 2025 Real Women Have Curves was speaking my language from the moment I entered the theatre and saw the gorgeous mural that set the tone for story that, l…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PMFriday, April 25, 2025
Pirates! The Penzance Musical – 09 April 2025 Roundabout Theater Company’s swashbuckling re-setting of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in New Orleans, Louisiana is the…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AMThursday, April 24, 2025
Manhatten Mayhem by David Rothenberg, review written 25 April 2025 David Rothenberg’s new memoir, Manhattan Mayhem, is an intelligent, beautiful look at a lifetime of memories (and fictio…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:58PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Hold Me in the Water – 17 April 2025 Since I first saw Ryan J. Haddad present a preliminary reading of Dark Disabled Stories in Damrosch Park (and waited around afterwards to shake his h…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30PMSunday, April 20, 2025
minor.ity – 19 April 2025 minor.ity begins with a Senegalese storyteller (Ato Essanndoh) inviting the audience into a tale he’s going to tell. He pulls back the curtain to a modern-day s…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:43PM 
