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Monday, January 28, 2019

Rent: Live Should Have Made TV History. Instead, It Wasn’t Even Live. by Matt Zoller Seitz

Rent: Live, a mostly prerecorded telecast cobbled together in the wake of cast member Brennin Hunt’s broken foot, should have been called Rent: Live-ish. I can’t remember the last time a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:51AM
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Springsteen on Broadway, Without the Hassle of Broadway by Matt Zoller Seitz

Springsteen on Broadway begins without an introduction, cutting immediately to a shot of Bruce Springsteen, now a wiry 69 year old, standing in front of a microphone, guitar at the ready. He…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:42PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 4 Is a TV Miracle by Matt Zoller Seitz

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which starts its fourth season Friday night on the CW, is one of those shows that looked on paper like it couldn’t go the distance until it did: a combination romantic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:13PM
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Amazon’s King Lear Captures the Heart of a Classic Shakespeare Tragedy by Matt Zoller Seitz

The color slowly drains out of the new King Lear as it goes along, as if to formalize its depiction of a nation bled dry by its own awfulness. Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, this BBC …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:09AM
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

From Chicago to Jesus Christ Superstar, Craig Zadan Changed the Way We Saw Theater by Matt Zoller Seitz

A quiet giant of American entertainment is gone.Those who followed the career of Craig Zadan, who died yesterday at 69 after complications from surgery, might raise an eyebrow at calling him…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:20PM
Monday, April 2, 2018

NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Set a New Standard for Live Musicals by Matt Zoller Seitz

NBC’s live production of Jesus Christ Superstar was pitched to audiences as a “Live in Concert” version, which led some to expect a straightforward performance of t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:50AM
Friday, February 16, 2018

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Ends Its Third Season on an Audacious Note by Matt Zoller Seitz

If you’re going to paint yourself into a corner, you might as well use the broadest brush available, and splatter the viewer while you’re at it. This was the operative philosophy of Craz…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:37PM
Sunday, November 5, 2017

TV Legend Hal Linden on Broadway, Barney Miller, and Six Decades as an Actor by Matt Zoller Seitz

Hal Linden will always be best known as the wry, decent captain of TV’s Barney Miller, but he’s a versatile actor whose career predates that classic sitcom and has outlasted it by a stag…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:01PM
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Is One of TV’s Richest Ongoing Achievements by Matt Zoller Seitz

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a national treasure, and so is its star and co-creator, Rachel Bloom, who tears through the first episodes of season three like a show-tune-belting tornado. Peren…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:44PM
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

The Best Actress on TV Is Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany by Matt Zoller Seitz

Vulture’s fourth annual TV Awards honor the best in television from the past year in three major categories: Actor, Actress, and Show (look for our Show pick later this week). The shows th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00AM
Sunday, May 22, 2016

HBO’s All the Way Is a Large-Scale Account of Lyndon B. Johnson With Little to Say by Matt Zoller Seitz

It's been a while since I saw a TV movie that had everything going for it, yet failed to be memorable. All the Way should have been a classic: electrifying, surprising, moving, artful. It's …

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:38PM
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Viola Davis Is Commanding in How to Get Away with Murder — The Show Just Needs to Get Out of Her Way by Matt Zoller Seitz

First, the good news: Viola Davis, the marquee name headlining ABC's new procedural How to Get Away with Murder, is every bit as commanding as you figured she'd be. And the show around her i…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:05PM
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Vulture TV Awards: The Year’s Best Female Drama Performer Is Julianna Margulies by Matt Zoller Seitz

All this week, we’re presenting our Vulture TV Awards, honoring the best in television from the past year. Yesterday, we showered Amy Schumer, H. Jon Benjamin, and others wi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Hell Is Other People: Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio by Matt Zoller Seitz

It’s a rare actor who can convey self-awareness without seeming self-conscious. The post Hell Is Other People: Liev Schreiber in <em>Talk Radio</em> appeared first on Slant Mag…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00AM

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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