Thursday, May 23, 2024
★★★★☆ When a master playwright takes on the mystery of sight (in its many senses), it pays to listen.
The post Molly Sweeney: An Ideal Cast Adds Insight and Intensity to Friel’s …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
★★★☆☆ Playwright/performer NSangou Njikam, accompanied by some gifted colleagues, gets to the heart of hip-hop culture.
The post Syncing Ink: A Crack Ensemble Revives a Hip-Hop Leg…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMMonday, April 29, 2024
★★★☆☆ Absurdism triumphs in this crazy combo meal of modern dating mores plus culinary pretention.
The post Staff Meal: Chef’s Kiss for a Kooky Pastiche appeared first on New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:19PMThursday, April 25, 2024
★★★☆☆ All the fixings – including some snazzy sets and standout stars – don't suffice to hoist this musical into the top rank.
The post The Great Gatsby: All That Glitters, B…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:54PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
MasterVoices revives their 2010 concert staging of this opera version of the Steinbeck novel
The post The Grapes of Wrath: Ricky Ian Gordon’s Opera Deserves a Real Run appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
★★★★★ There’s no way to sugarcoat Thomas Jefferson’s abuse of Sally Hemings, but Lori-Parks whips up an entertaining gloss.
The post Sally & Tom: The Oddest, Most Emblemati…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:29PMSunday, April 14, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Daubed with broad strokes, this sweeping bio-musical proves at once arty and inept.
The post Lempicka: A Paint-by-Numbers Old-School Musical appeared first on New York Stage …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:54PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
★★★★☆ "Loss is fast, and grief is slow…. At the grief hotel, you get to stop time.”
The post Grief Hotel: A Bizarre Business Plan That Doubles as a Clever Leitmotif appeared fi…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:29PMSunday, March 24, 2024
★★★★☆ Brian Friel’s early character study – an exercise in ego vs. id – proves surprisingly timely and compelling.
The post Philadelphia, Here I Come: Two Aces Finesse This …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PMThursday, March 21, 2024
★★★★☆ This “circus musical” occupies an impressively big tent, probing the power dynamics that affect the human animal.
The post Water for Elephants: A Thrilling Throwback to t…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PMFriday, March 1, 2024
★★★☆☆ Cecily Strong does her utmost as a spinster (yes, the dated epithet is apt) desperate to find a mate at all costs.
The post Brooklyn Laundry: Management Not Responsible for L…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:55PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
★★★☆☆ A shy courage infuses this recessive exercise in responding to emotional trauma.
The post I Love You So Much I Could Die: A Relatable Palliative appeared first on New York St…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMSunday, February 11, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Eddie Izzard's formidable talent is spread a bit thin in this daunting abridgment of Shakespeare's masterwork.
The post Hamlet: A Tour de Force That Fails to Lift Off appeare…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:58PMThursday, February 8, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Poke a troll and you might discover its soft underbelly.
The post Russian Troll Farm: The Hijinks Are Far from Hilarious appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMThursday, February 1, 2024
★★★★☆ Gabby Beans portrays a writer-in-training at three distinct junctures in her life, slightly jumbled to fascinating effect.
The post Jonah: Three Ages of Woman, Intriguingly I…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:05PMSunday, January 21, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Brian Friel's Ballybeg aristos face reduced circumstances, with varying degrees of grace (and varying degrees of acting skill).
The post Aristocrats: Brian Friel’s Chekhovi…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:56PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
★★★☆☆ The book could use a some beefing up, but the music is a treat – an extraordinary experience in so intimate a space.
The post Buena Vista Social Club: Go for the Music Alon…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:27PMSunday, December 10, 2023
★★★★☆ With a bold, groundbreaking documentary as inspiration, this brave new musical delivers depth and delight.
The post How to Dance in Ohio: Exuberance Triumphs over Social Unea…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:56PMMonday, December 4, 2023
★★★★☆ The travails of a born outsider, coping with inconceivable hardships in the South Africa of four decades ago, tragically resonates to this day.
The post Life & Times of M…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PMThursday, November 16, 2023
★★★★☆ A crack cast reinvigorates Eric Idle’s irreverent slice of highly improbable history.
The post Spamalot: Spamalot: Trumpeting the Return of a Raunchy Musical Comedy for the…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:55PMMonday, November 13, 2023
★★★★☆ A singing sextet in pre-WWII Berlin wows the cabaret crowd — but proves powerless against the Gestapo
The post Harmony: Superb Singing Marks Barry Manilow’s Long-Delayed …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:15PMSunday, November 5, 2023
★★★★☆ Nathan Lane hosted an evanescent revival of his too rarely seen collaboration with Stephen Sondheim.
The post The Frogs: They’re Back and Bouncier Than Ever appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:59PMFriday, November 3, 2023
★★★☆☆ With additions from the Rodgers & Hart songbook, this updated interpretation is juicy if not entirely cohesive
The post Pal Joey: At City Center, Purists Are In for a Sur…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:05PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
★★★☆☆ Each recovery story is unique, but this one proves overly schematic.
The post Dig: Theresa Rebeck could delve a bit deeper appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:54PMMonday, September 18, 2023
★★★★☆ A clever script and a versatile cast transform a horror classic into pure fun and games
The post Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Tickles Ingeniously appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:56PMThursday, September 14, 2023
★★★★☆ Bloom is back, spilling and spewing her neuroses and obsessions – wittily.
The post Death, Let Me Do My Show: Rachel Bloom picks up the pieces post-Covid appeared first on…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:57PMThursday, June 22, 2023
★★★☆☆ Sometimes a supposed tribute is an ill-camouflaged insult. Brittany Spears gets lionized in this femmage; Betty Friedan, not so much.
The post Once Upon a One More Time: Bett…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMSunday, June 18, 2023
★★★★☆ Family dynamics get a tragicomic treatment in this tale of three virtual orphans surviving precariously in contemporary London.
The post Cassie and the Lights: A Family at Ri…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:31PMMonday, June 5, 2023
★★★★★ With surgical precision and abundant sympathy, Branden Jacob-Jenkins dissects the Class of 2002.
The post The Comeuppance: A High-School Reunion Prompts Some Startling Revisi…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMThursday, May 4, 2023
★★★★☆ A cuddly Fagin? Raúl Esparza pulls off an improbable transmogrification in this Encores! staging
The post Oliver!: A Problematic Classic Benefits From a Reconsidered Villain…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:28PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
★★★★☆ Not every woman wants – or needs – a makeover, but plenty of women enjoy initiating them. Toxic or benevolent? You get to decide.
The post Summer, 1976: An Odd Couple of …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PM 
