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Friday, December 2, 2022

At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? by Scott Brown

The playwright behind “Ohio State Murders,” opening this month, has a theory as to why: “It’s because I’m a Black woman.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Theater Review: A Born Yesterday for Today by Scott Brown

Citizens: Vote Nina Arianda!

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Action vs. Jackson by Scott Brown

Benjamin Walker could have been a Hollywood superhero. Instead, he's at the Jacobs Theatre, rocking the man on the $20 bill.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Mama Grizzly of The Little Foxes by Scott Brown

Van Hove has no interest in subtlety, but neither did Hellman, really, so the match is a good one, even when the show’s super-text starts to bray a bit.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Review: What Do Charles Busch and Linda Lovelace Have in Common? by SCOTT BROWN

Downtown, two icons of the sexual revolution are reliving their glory days.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

A Very Chilly Life in the Theatre by Scott Brown

David Mamet's play is performed, word perfect, by Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight. And that's the problem.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Your Comp-Lit T.A. Would Have Loved La Bête by Scott Brown

Not lucid enough to be middlebrow, even, but definitely muddled-brow. It’s to Warchus’s infinite credit that he can spin straw into gold.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Stage Dive: Did Philip K. Dick Dream of Downtown Theater? by Scott Brown

It's damned hard to resist deploying a "Blade Re-Runner" pun

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Searching for Deep Meaning in The Language Archive by Scott Brown

The actors push and push, trying to get some momentum, but Cho, in trying to write a timeless fable, has instead created a paceless half-play.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Stage Dive: The Gathering of the Jackalos? by Scott Brown

So I’m at Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson last night, and in the row ahead of me, a long-haired gentleman (wearing what I believe was an “I’m Andrew $%#@ing Jackson” T-s…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Stage Dive: Alec Baldwin Must Return to Broadway, But in What? by Scott Brown

I woke up this morning thinking fondly of Alec Baldwin. As I often do. (This and so many other things set me apart from Kim Basinger and Roger Ailes.)

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Lombardi’s Well-Worn Playbook by Scott Brown

The play belongs on a pageant wagon parked outside Lambeau Field; its presence on Broadway is, to adopt the parlance, a real ball-scratcher.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Stage Dive: There’s a Theater in Their Mouths, and Everyone’s Invited! by Scott Brown

Mark Rylance's goofy set of fake choppers in 'La Bête' are not alone on Broadway, and off.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones Drive an Angrier Miss Daisy by Scott Brown

Watching director David Bjornson’s rickety read-through of a revival, I found Gaines’s performance to be the only indispensable one onstage — the lone breathing human up th…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Julia Stiles Leads the Jittery Collegiate Thrills of Persephone by Scott Brown

If Baz Lurhmann and Laurie Anderson got stoned listening to late-night college-radio electro-pop, Persephone is what they’d hallucinate. And whether or not you’ll dig it depends …

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Spectacularly Overstuffed Angels in America by Scott Brown

A lusty, lumpy, lovably imperfect remount.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Globe's Joyous, Buoyant Merry Wives of Windsor by Scott Brown

The Globe Theatre's Merry Wives of Windsor is a kind of juice cleanse for the theatrically besotted, overdosed, and/or toxified.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Brilliant Blunt Force of The Scottsboro Boys by Scott Brown

Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, which turns a civil-rights parable into a minstrel show, is, on its own discomfiting terms, utterly successful.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Vast Emptiness (With Punch Lines) of Middletown by Scott Brown

Will Eno's 'Middletown' isn't a play, it's a place. And there's nothing there.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Mark Rylance Unplugged by Scott Brown

With one breathtaking, breakneck 30-minute monologue, he steals the season.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Review: Women on the Verge Not on the Verge of Much by Scott Brown

The most startling thing about Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — the ambitious, addled, oddly enervated new musical from composer-lyricist David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundre…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Is Off Broadway Turning Into Post-Broadway? by Scott Brown

Is this the future of Off Broadway? Fun-size versions of Great White megahits?

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

For Colin Quinn, History is One Long Barroom Brawl by Scott Brown

In Long Story Short, Quinn skims thousands of year with an autodidact's stentorian emphasis and a drinking buddy's beer-breath bonhomie.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Review: Two Mind-blowing Shows (One Involving Charlie Chaplin — or Parts of Him) by Scott Brown

When a man eats a lightbulb for your wincing pleasure, you'll follow him anywhere.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

All that Chat

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
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime