480 stories by "Jacob Malizio"
Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that’s what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes…
What we do have is marvelous. And Broadway does give the play an appropriate magnitude — the vast room matches Paulina’s operatic behavior. The scale of the actors, too, allows White to …
Ericka’s arrival sets off a chaotic chain of events by turns uproariously funny, stingingly painful and, for anyone who lived through teenage bullying, cruelly familiar. Yet Bioh always ke…
Benton and Rogers—each a radiant presence with resting Disney Princess Face—are perfectly matched rivals. As Paulina, Benton is unflinchingly cruel. She even draws gasps for her especial…
“School Girls” is an uproariously funny and heartbreaking portrait of sisterhood framed by the consequences of colonialism, anti-Blackness, and colorism. In just 75 minutes, “School Gi…
When it premiered at MCC in 2017 it was fresh, savvy, and funny. Almost a decade later in its Broadway debut, it’s lost none of that, and White’s production — perhaps inevitably given …
Bioh, perfectly assisted by her sympatico director Whitney White and a no-weak-link cast, has done something quite amazing with this comedy-drama, opening tonight on Broadway at the Samuel J…
What began as a plucky battle between a friendly newcomer and a queen bee with a nasty stinger morphs into something much more complicated, especially as further revelations are uncovered. B…
It’s a pleasure to be reunited with flawed, fractious but ultimately endearing classmates of this crowd-pleasing play.
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This is a production expert at making one smile. For what is clearly one of the past decade’s most loved plays, this Broadway debut is a beautiful homecoming.
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James and Lou move from Chicago to London for a fresh start. But as the young couple settles into their new home, Lou is certain that something is… off. And eventually they will both have …
Watching “Paranormal Activity” with a crowd feels like watching a magic show on a roller coaster. We scream, then we laugh because we screamed (aren’t we silly?), then we scream again …
I love being scared, and Paranormal Activity is by far the best entry for horror theatre we have seen on Broadway, perhaps ever? Illusions Designer Chris Fisher worked with Holloway and dire…
Spare a thought for the 32BJ cleaners (now under a new contract) who must nightly contend with spilled popcorn and tiny puddles of urine left by horrified spectators unprepared for the jumps…
The stage version of “Paranormal Activity” performs on an intimate and domestic scale yet delivers more thrills, chills and screams than Broadway has seen in years, and giving the franch…
One of the more surreal responses to that experience is applause, which ripples through the audience of Paranormal Activity a beat after all the major scares, like rain settling in after a p…
Horror plays are hard to pull off on Broadway, as Holloway’s own somewhat creaky Grey House demonstrated in 2023. But Paranormal Activity is a much more successful fright night. Barrett, w…
What happens next can only be described as two hours and 20 minutes of hair-raising, heart-pounding, and bloodcurdling horror mixed with a dash of unexpected heart and humor. Scenic and cost…
People screamed and jumped in unison just as they would at the cinema. It’s a lot of fun. At times, the spookiness is electric. And, far from creeping into deadly theme-park territory, pat…
Paranormal Activity’s nightmare fuel makes for a wonderfully inventive and terrifying variation on the American domestic drama, taking a couple on the brink and turning the ghosts of their…
Welcome to Santa Carla. Perfect weather. Beautiful beaches. And a charming boardwalk…as long as you ignore all the “missing” posters. When Lucy (two-time Tony Award® nominee Shoshana …
When the musical version of “The Lost Boys,” written by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, with score and lyrics by the Rescues, nails its combination of goofiness and grandeur… Still, the …
The musical channels the 80s maximalism of the movie in Dane Laffrey’s elaborate, towering sets and Jen Schriever’s gorgeous, cinematic lighting design… Those elements, along with Mark…
David Hornsby and Chris Hoch have written a muscular yet cheeky book that pays homage to the film, retains choice comedic moments (“Death by stereo!”), and ditches dated material in exch…
The creative team behind The Lost Boys musical, along with a terrific cast, seem to have figured out how, exactly, to adapt the horror genre to the stage, and, yes, it has much to do with ad…
