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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Theater Reviews: Onstage Now, Bergman’s Light and Kushner’s Language -- Vulture by Scott Brown

What will Karin choose to believe? Does she even have a choice? Do we?

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:05PM
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Theater Review: Bringing Sexy Back to Off Broadway -- Vulture by Scott Brown

It’s summer (on some days, at least), flesh is on display, and a young theatergoer’s thoughts turn to sex, love, and the vast, throbbing emotionally militarized zone in between.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:55PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Stage Dive: The Surprises (and Sameness) of This Morning’s Tony Nominations -- Vulture by Scott Brown

A mass repudiation of star power. A renewal of faith in the power of the old-fashioned musical to tackle taboo subject matter. A grim referendum on the last Harry Potter movie. There are a n…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:34PM
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Theater Review: Black Music Gets Whitewashed Again in Baby It’s You! -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Perhaps the most expensive Miami rest-home clap-along ever produced, Baby It’s You! is this season’s Memphis: Another “fact-based” musical about how tough it was, back in the fifties…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:02AM

Theater Review: The Biblical Anger of The Normal Heart Brilliantly Endures -- Vulture by Scott Brown

How long’s it been since you were angry? And I don’t mean “upset.” I mean biblically angry — angry at whole institutions, cultures, abstractions, homo sapiens as a species. If it�…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:00AM
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Theater Review: Catch It If You Can -- Vulture by Scott Brown

Can we believe a word that comes out of this show’s mouth, spoken or sung? What’s this show trying to take us for? More to the point: do we want to be taken?

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 11:00PM
Friday, April 8, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011

With Jesus on Their Side by Scott Brown

The Book of Mormon resurrects the balls-out Broadway musical.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:00PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Theater Review: Sumptuous Nyuk-Nyuks at BAM’s Comedy of Errors by Scott Brown

The Propeller troupe's version of Shakespeare's original one-crazy-weekend play is a boys' night out that just won't quit.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:56AM
Monday, March 21, 2011

Stage Dive: Priscilla's Easy Charms by Scott Brown

Nothing you’ll experience here travels far outside the Palace's walls, but that’s just fine.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:06AM
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011

Review: An Exquisite Revival of Arcadia Could Use a Wee Bit More by Scott Brown

The revival of Tom Stoppard's tantalizingly unrequited romance between mind and body both charms and challenges its audience. And also, one senses, its cast.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 06:09AM
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Stage Dive: Get This Virginia Woolf to Broadway, Even If We Have to Build a Theater! by Scott Brown

The Steppenwolf production at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is a bigger, badder version of the Albee classic, starring the brilliant Tracy Letts.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 12:48PM
Friday, February 25, 2011

The Year in Theater by Scott Brown

Scott Brown's top ten theater productions of 2010.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:58PM
Sunday, January 30, 2011

A Weirder Tennessee by Scott Brown

Williams's late work gets a new shake on his 100th birthday.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 07:40PM

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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
TBA: Titanic