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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 …
Sink shines in using her physicality here. With more room for her and the other actors to play and relax, there's potential for this production to be even better. But despite its shortcoming…
"John Proctor Is the Villain" is the best play of the season, but even more significantly, it is a feminist masterpiece sure to become one of the defining works of art from and about the #Me…
Forget the villain " Belflower's play hits as hard as it does because at its heart, fighting their way through one hell of a junior year, are the kind of heroes we actually need.
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But although themes and incidents from The Crucible reverberate throughout this work, you don't need to be an expert on Miller's drama to appreciate this one. Belflower's first Broadway play…
And as events unfold that could break a small town apart and almost certainly make national news, the characters stick to a sit-com style. That's the play that Belflower wanted to write, and…
It's a testament to the subtle brilliance of Kimberly Belflower's writing and Danya Tamor's direction that you can hardly feel the 105-minute, no-intermission runtime of John Proctor Is the …
Combined, John Proctor Is the Villain not only serves as a modern day recontextualization of the original play, but also a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply affecting examination of girlhood, …
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"Smash," which opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, is more of a who'll-do-it, and when the big song comes, it's a killer. But the effect is the same: It's the great musical comedy no…
"Smash" sells the promise of slap-happy Broadwayâ„¢, but don't be fooled: Elice and Martin have salted the whole thing with disdain. Contempt is what they must have for actors, writers, …
