The modern world is full of stress, so go and have a party, brah, And shake it like a necklace made of gaudy beads at Mardi Gras. Enjoy this Broadway hybrid that is tuneful and poetical: A m…
In 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, the Creel family seeks a fresh start, especially their teenage son Henry, who is eager to escape his troubled past. Initially, things go well " he finds friendship …
"The First Shadow" fulfills its franchise requirements in terms of spectacular art direction and compliance to the series' canon (to which it adds tantalizing tidbits). Whether it is satisfy…
Three hours in the "Stranger Things: The First Shadow" universe passes in a blink. By the end, you're convinced they've pulled off another trick: an exorbitant spectacle wrapped around the s…
Enough can't be said that this production doesn't just change the game of Broadway, it smashes the game board and shoots it into a new dimension. When you take one of the most watched televi…
The First Shadow, now an integral part of the ST canon, is an absolute must-see for all enthusiasts, and it will certainly inspire some of the uninitiated to binge the original (mission acco…
If The First Shadow is purely an act of fan service, at least it's an unapologetic and, if the audience around me was any judge, satisfying one. Is it a play? I mean, yes-ish? Is it an extra…
Immersive, heartfelt, and exhilarating, First Shadow is a must-see spectacle for the Stranger Things obsessive as much as it is for the theater aficionado who wants to see the medium pushed …
Nothing is left unscathed. Jump-scare noises blow out your eardrums. Blinding lights and raining sparks make you crave Anna Wintour's indoor sunglasses. And there's so much billowing haze th…
The result? A three-hour fan wiki brought to life, complete with origin stories, stilted dialogue, lame jokes, and sequences seemingly constructed only to set up the next visual effect. Yes,…
The Netflix series, at its best, delivers a gritty film noir quality to this supernatural tale. What's on stage at the Marquis resembles a jukebox musical comedy with lots of shock effects h…
Floyd Collins is a gripping and powerful musical based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist a…
Yet one of the wonders of the show's glorious-sounding new production, which opened on Monday night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater with a thoroughly winning Jeremy Jordan in the title role, …
"Floyd Collins" is somber, unique and sprinkled with tender moments. It's a fine production with a gem of a lead actor, but the show is desperate for a raison d'etre. The musical rings with …
[Trensch] and Jordan (and that opening sequence) are worth the price of admission, as are Ted Sperling's music direction and Bruce Coughlin's orchestrations. Floyd Collins is an odd piece wh…
Sumptuously desolate yet charged with enough emotion to reach the heavens, Landau's crystal-clear revival allows us to see the show for what it truly is: an elegy for a carefree way of life,…
For a show with such a potentially powerful symbol at its core " a man trapped in the rock, singing as he's crushed by America " Floyd Collins leaves far too soft an impression. It never rea…
Despite some scattered strong elements, it's hard to totally make sense of "Floyd Collins" or feel that it really works as a whole… There may be treasure hidden deep in the cave that is "F…
Guettel's songwriting here repeatedly recalls the sweeping chromatic music flecked with tantalizing dissonances that distinguishes "Piazza" and, later, "Days of Wine and Roses." Any theaterg…
With Guettel's often sublime score and lyrics that get at the terror, cynicism and, most of all, undying hope against hope well captured in Landau's book, Floyd Collins might haunt some of t…
If you're already a fan of Floyd Collins's score, you are likely to enjoy this eminently respectable performance of it, and maybe even respond to it emotionally. If not, though"if, like Floy…
At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. A…
Taymor's production is entirely sympathetic " to the characters and to the text. Though thrilling in its refusal to tamp down the show's sometimes anarchic spirit, it does not ignore the dan…
"John Proctor" executes sleight of hand very well " it begs us to reconsider the stories, events and people we're told to trust. And Belflower gives this ensemble of actors wells of nuance t…
There's a moment in the play featuring a song by Lorde that elicited in me a dizzy gasp, then an eye-roll, then gave way to a moment of catharsis. In one gesture, it brilliantly tied up the …