Thursday, October 11, 2018
The Boys in the Band have left the building, and Arnold Beckoff’s Broadway transfer is still in previews, but if you’re looking for torch songs in the meantime, Midnight at the Never Get…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:16PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Who is Jomama Jones, the rooted and radiant soul diva whose show Black Light, which premiered at Joe’s Pub in the spring, has reemerged downtown for a run at the Greenwich House Theater? A…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00PMMonday, October 8, 2018
Stephen Sondheim, comparing two big hits by Rodgers and Hammerstein, memorably quipped, “Oklahoma! is about a picnic, Carousel is about life and death.” I’m not sure if the director Da…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:46AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
It always seems a touch sentimental to call a show a “gift” (not to mention dubious — most theater is far from free), but in the case of On Beckett, the oversize shoe simply fits.…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Using Bob Dylan’s song catalog, the Irish playwright Conor McPherson has written a play with music set in America. And to hear him tell it, and his characters sing it, we the people of the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMSunday, September 30, 2018
“Thank you all so much for being here!” Heidi Schreck beamed, effervescent in a sunny yellow blazer, as she made her entrance at the start of What the Constitution Means to Me. Then she …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:05PMThursday, September 27, 2018
Until someone adapts The Great British Baking Show into a musical using re-lyricized Beatles songs (seriously, the possibilities are limitless: “While My Soufflé Gently Sinks,” �…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:26PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet begins casually and ends by breaking your heart. The latest from the adventurously lo-fi theater troupe Bedlam — which has earned a reputation for joyfully reinvig…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:27AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
There’s a special kind of cringing reserved for plays that seem like they’ll be up your alley and instead get aggressively on your nerves. Watching Moritz von Stuelpnagel’s overwrought…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, September 24, 2018
Craig Lucas’s I Was Most Alive With You, now at Playwrights Horizons under the direction of Tyne Rafaeli, is a complex and far-reaching project. It’s a family saga, a riff on a biblical …
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMThursday, September 20, 2018
The title of Sharr White’s drama The True—about real-life Democratic party insider Dorothea “Polly” Noonan and her relationship with Albany “mayor-for-life” Erastus Corning II—…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:27PMSunday, September 16, 2018
It’s an easy leap to call Richard Nelson “Chekhovian.” The prolific playwright and director, known for his trilogies about American families at political turning points (The Gabriels a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Over the course of its self-consciously frolicsome 90 minutes, Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties grew on me. Then, after I left the theater, it shrunk on me again. I …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:30PMThursday, August 16, 2018
As you approach the Nederlander Theatre, the marquee flashes a series of bold all-caps phrases: “BOLD WOMAN—FIERCE WOMAN—FUNNY WOMAN—SMART WOMAN,” and finally, inevitably, the titl…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Before Gettin’ the Band Back Together kicked off, the show’s producer bounded down the aisle and up the steps to the stage to do a little hyping. He wanted to know how we were all doing …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, July 31, 2018
There are over 130 bios in the Playbill for Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, now receiving a revival at the Public’s Central Park h…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, July 30, 2018
At the end of the first act of Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand, an angry mother stands center stage, a mounting storm whipping at the windows of her home as she rails agains…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMThursday, July 26, 2018
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the elevator where Jeff Whitty, best known for a musical about the neuroses of New York Muppets, originally pitched the idea for Head Over Heels: “It�…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:28PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
I bought a cookie at the intermission of This Ain’t No Disco. Weirdly, I needed the sugar. For all the insistent, glitter-ball-bedecked, in-your-face-sleazy-sexy exuberance of the new rock…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, July 23, 2018
A few days ago, the Times published an extensive profile of Young Jean Lee in anticipation of Second Stage’s revival of her 2014 play Straight White Men, which marks—in that equally exci…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
There’s a word in Russian: obraz. Translated simply it means image, but more accurately it refers to an icon or a sacred image, an image replete with expansive figurative meaning. More tha…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:48PMMonday, July 16, 2018
Like a nightingale caught up in a footrace with a bioengineered cheetah—having forgotten its wings and its voice in a befuddled attempt at high-tech speed—contemporary theater can often …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMThursday, July 12, 2018
If you’re a Shakespeare in the Park kind of person, your summer will be bookended by two characters, the villain Iago and the heroine Viola, making the koan-like confession “I am not wha…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMSunday, June 17, 2018
“I thought you said race is a construct,” says a mocking, identifiably white male voice coming from the sound system at Soho Rep halfway through Jackie Sibblies Drury’s vehement, searc…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMFriday, June 8, 2018
I’m a Tony Awards voter. If you know me as New York’s theater critic, this isn’t particularly strange or hilarious. But if you know me in person, it is. For the past few weeks I’ve b…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:30AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Lauren Yee’s smart, feisty, highly enjoyable new play The Great Leap—currently having its New York premiere at Atlantic Theater Company under the high-energy direction of Taibi Magar—i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Attending the still-contentious, oddly timed, star-studded 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Mart Crowley’s 1968 gay theater trailblazer, The Boys in the Band, is a strange, somewhat re…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
The appallingly talented British actor Tom Hollander has been John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas; the prime minister and a motion-capture hyena; two King Georges, a periwigged pirate…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:21PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
Henry James would probably die all over again if he could hear one of his characters describe the looming, intangible something that dominates his life, that he’s in search of and afraid o…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street is a play whose combustible energy would benefit from compression and claustrophobia, but in the current revival at Signature Theatre, it’…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:39PMThe wolf-eyed Erin Markey wants you to be a little scared in the theater, kind of in the way you’re a little scared when you’re talking to someone attractive and you suddenly experience …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:25PM 
