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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Wicked review – Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are a blast in sugar-rush Wizard of Oz fantasy by Peter Bradshaw

Stephen Schwartz’s musical prequel has been brought to the big screen, with Erivo’s charismatic Elphaba exerting a planetary pull over a star-studded cast As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Friday, September 27, 2024

Maggie Smith was the grandest of grande dames – and a true cinematic superstar | Peter Bradshaw by Peter Bradshaw

Before she reached a new level of celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Yannick review – Quentin Dupieux goes for laughs in absurdist theatre hijack comedy by Peter Bradshaw

Dupieux’s melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment by Peter Bradshaw

Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance Director James Marsh has boldly, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Cabaret review – Liza Minnelli musical still divinely decadent and chillingly relevant by Peter Bradshaw

Minnelli brings the razzle dazzle to a Berlin determined to ignore the gathering storm in this cinematic masterpiece ‘Still think you can control them?” Dizzied by their divinely decaden…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Ailey review – touching tribute to icon whose dance crossed boundaries by Peter Bradshaw

Jamila Wignot’s documentary about choreographer Alvin Ailey has absorbing testimonies and a look at his secret private life Jamila Wignot’s documentary is a tribute to the work of the Af…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM
Friday, December 3, 2021

‘A post-menopausal Macbeth’: Joel Coen on tackling Shakespeare with Frances McDormand by Peter Bradshaw

The writer-director talks about his new film, co-starring Denzel Washington, and reveals how it felt to work without his brother, Ethan, for the first time in nearly 40 years It might be the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM
Thursday, November 11, 2021

tick, tick … BOOM! review – Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heartfelt tribute to Broadway by Peter Bradshaw

Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda’s sugar rush of showbiz highs and lows Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz sol…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM
Sunday, February 21, 2021

‘You can smell the sweat and hair gel’: the best nightclub scenes from culture by Peter Bradshaw, Claire Armitstead, Keza Macdonald, Simran Hans, Ammar Kalia, Lanre Bakare, Lyndsey Winship, Alexis Petridis, Arifa Akbar, Aniefiok Ekpoudom and Jonathan Jones. Artist Interviews By Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown There have been many notable nightclubs in film his…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets by Oliver Wainwright, Stuart Jeffries, Peter Bradshaw, Jonathan Jones, Fiona Maddocks, Michael Coveney and Keza Macdonald

It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination As Notre Dame Cathe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The seven rages of David Mamet: genius or symbol of toxic masculinity? by Peter Bradshaw

With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters, no writer has so relentlessly confronted the explosive issues of our times. But theatre and Hollywood are changing. As he hits 70,…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Funny Cow review – Maxine Peake blazes in the dark days of standup by Peter Bradshaw

Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuitMaxine Peake dominates the screen as producer and star…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Our Last Tango review – passion and pain of the tango stars by Peter Bradshaw

This engaging documentary focuses on a couple who once dazzled audiences with their intimate dance routines but whose off-stage love turned to heartbreak The return of what is now known as S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

A message for Sir Kenneth Branagh. Let the people see the Hiddleston Hamlet! | Peter Bradshaw by Peter Bradshaw

It’s impossible to get tickets to see Tom Hiddleston. But if the play’s being staged to raise funds for Rada, why not be less elitist, and broadcast it in cinemas?The arts world is facin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM
Friday, August 11, 2017

Step review – well-choreographed dance doc bursting with positivity by Peter Bradshaw

A Baltimore girls high-school dance team boost their self-esteem while they’re busting moves in this heartfelt, feelgood documentary Stepping is a vivid and passionate style of street danc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Dancer review – tiptoeing around ballet's bad boy by Peter Bradshaw

Dancer Sergei Polunin gets a respectful and useful documentary, but we need a deeper investigation into this amazing dancer, hamstrung by his own demonsThis is a sympathetic, serviceable but…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM
Friday, December 30, 2016

Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016 by Archie Bland, Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Daphne A Brooks, Tom Holland, Jonathan Jones, Justine Jordan, Brian Logan, Sean O'Hagan and Simon Parkin

How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 monthsIf there is one film that hold…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Reset review – prosaic peek at Paris’s plain-sailing ballet stars by Peter Bradshaw

This documentary about a new director’s tenure at the Paris Opera Ballet purports to tell all but offers no real insightsNot so much a documentary, more a sleek two-hour commercial for its…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM
Sunday, November 6, 2016

The Cat on a Hit Tin Roof film may be censored – but in some ways it's superior by Peter Bradshaw

At the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Es…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM
Friday, September 9, 2016

Pub Landlord Al Murray on his election strategy: ‘I could drink Nigel Farage and William Hague under the table’ by Jonathan Freedland, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cobain, Imogen Fox, Richard Adams, Alexis Petridis, Amelia Gentleman, Susan Smillie, Jonathan Jones, Hugh Muir, Jay Rayner, Heather Stewart and John Crace

The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AM
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Stage v screen: is theatre better in the cinema? by Peter Bradshaw

Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out – by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Julie…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PM
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Harry Potter play exposes the social apartheid in our theatre | Peter Bradshaw by Peter Bradshaw

Unlike the democratic experience of the Potter movies, it seems only the smug rich can afford tickets for the stage playTickets are now on sale for the new London West End stage show Harry P…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM
Friday, January 8, 2016

The Guardian film show: The Hateful Eight, A War and Bolshoi Babylon – Audio reviews by Presented By Xan Brookswith Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee Produced By Rowan Slaney

Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big film releases. Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PM

Bolshoi Babylon review – breaking pointe at the ballet company by Peter Bradshaw

This enthralling documentary reveals the extraordinary upheavals at the Bolshoi Ballet as the tip of Russia’s rage icebergOne morning in 2013, Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM
Friday, August 14, 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch? No, it’s Dwane who deserves the award for Hamlet | Peter Bradshaw by Peter Bradshaw

The star’s understudy at the Barbican is Dwane Walcott, an excellent actor. He will deserve recognition for bravery if he has to step inThe theatre world, like the movie world, has loads o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015

The Last Five Years review – pitch-perfect Anna Kendrick performance | Film | The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Anna Kendrick is extraordinary in this two-hander raking over the coals of a relationship: it’s a lean, mean, musical machine

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PM
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Dancing in Jaffa review – documentary waltzes and tangoes for peace by Peter Bradshaw

Hilla Medalia captures ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he uses fancy footwork to bring together Palestinian and Jewish children Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Stoppard’s generation-gap crisis: Opal Fruits are Opal Fruits – not Starburst by Peter Bradshaw

Younger people don’t get Sir Tom’s new play, so he’s had to rewrite The Hard Problem to make it Quite Easy. But some things just can’t be changed Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PM
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Pub Landlord Al Murray on his election strategy: ‘I could drink Nigel Farage and William Hague under the table’ by Joanthan Freedland, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cobain, Imogen Fox, Richard Adams, Alexis Petridis, Amelia Gentleman, Susan Smillie, Jonathan Jones, Hugh Muir, Jay Rayner, Heather Stewart and John Crace

The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Krapp's Last Tape review an icy, hypnotic adaption of Beckett's play by Peter Bradshaw

Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer's portrayal convulses Krapp's face with shock and repressed despair Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AM
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Monty Python Live (Mostly) review reunion show is one for the faithful by Peter Bradshaw

O2 Arena, LondonEveryone wants the Pythons to do the classic stuff and so they did in a staggeringly lucrative reunion show that is unlikely to make any convertsShare your own Monty Python s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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