Saturday, March 8, 2025

Review:‘Deep Blue Sound’ updates ‘Our Town’ for the modern age of isolation @ the Public thru April 5th by Thom Geier

Date: March 6, 2025 Author: Thom Geier 1 Comment For nearly three decades, the theater company Clubbed Thumb has nurtured some of the finest new plays to hit the New York stage, from the …

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

‘Sumo’ updates the sports drama with a hefty display of athleticism (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

There is much to admire in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Sumo, a deep dive into Japan’s national sport by way of a conventional Karate Kid-style framework. We follow an orphaned teenage apprentice…

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Critic’s picks: The best of Broadway and Off Broadway right now by Thom Geier

From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage

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Friday, February 28, 2025

Why Off Broadway is the final destination for many hit shows these days by Thom Geier

Adapted from my Broadway Bulletin column in the March issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine. New York theatre doesn’t just happen on Broadway. These days, there are plenty of commercial Of…

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

‘Dakar 2000’ is an absorbing story of spies and seduction (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Is there a dark secret in the past of Rajiv Joseph, the playwright best known for his 2009 Iraq war parable Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the recent sports-themed dramedy King James (o…

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

‘On the Evolutionary Function of Shame’ sets a trans origin story in the Garden of Eden (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

D.A. Mindell’s On the Evolutionary Function of Shame is a timely, trenchant, and often funny new play that explores the issue of trans visibility. Mindell initially sets the scene in the b…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Christian Slater and Calista Flockhart stumble through ‘Curse of the Starving Class’ (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

It was only six years ago that Maggie Siff led a solid but workmanlike revival of Sam Shepard’s 1978 drama Curse of the Starving Class. Now Calista Flockhart and Christian Slater are retur…

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Monday, February 24, 2025

‘Grangeville’ digs into the fallout of family trauma (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Samuel D. Hunter follows his extraordinary 2022 two-hander A Case for the Existence of God with a another astonishing new drama for two actors. This time, two men must calibrate the spaces b…

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

‘Liberation’ sets the memory play free with life-affirming power (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Bess Wohl takes a big-hearted approach to her subject matter, and to her characters, in this powerful and life-affirming drama

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‘Safe House’ updates the memory play as a musical scrapbook (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Kate Gilmore conveys the conflict in her character with a riveting command of the show’s vocal and physical demands, but ‘Safe House’ remains too scattershot an exercise in style to mo…

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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
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre