460 stories by "Jacob Malizio"
Like all the best early 20th century works tragically and systematically erased from our cultural memory, she's bright, effervescent, relentlessly charming and sexy. Pretty much the same can…
It's difficult to say what's more embarrassing: the people in Disney outfits out on the street or the chorus at the Broadhurst in costumes that look just as seedy and smelly. Pooph, anyone?
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Yet you will likely have more fun at Boop! than in many other theaters this spring; this is an old-fashioned stage-frolic filled show, with big songs and bigger dancing, including roof-raisi…
[Rogers] can do it all. As smiley, effervescent and, well, animated as t he actress is for most of the night, she finds power and emotional resonance in her 11 o'clock number "Somethin…
Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, this is an old-fashioned candy shop of a show, where tasty confections are sold in bulk. When Boop! is corny, it's candy corn. Gorge on the mult…
Experience the messy, euphoric, sexy, savage, fleeting rush of falling in and out of love in New York City at The Last Five Years, starring Grammy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Nick Jon…
But in the show's first Broadway incarnation, starring the resplendent Adrienne Warren and an underpowered Nick Jonas, the structure (along with the balance) has been compromised. The produc…
Each song must bear the emotional fullness of a scene, because it's an entire memory. Warren can do this. Jonas, simply, cannot. Or does not.
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But for the most part, this is still The Last Five Years as devoted fans know it: a tuneful sketch of an ill-considered marriage between two young people who still hadn't fully discovered wh…
They sing magnificently and there's real chemistry between the two of them, but Whitney White's direction is literal and unimaginative to the extreme. There's no emotional payoff in these tw…
White has crafted an intriguing and intellectually ambitious revival, one that embraces the brutal emotional honesty of Brown's source material.
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Whitney White's revival is sleek and unpretentious"Stacey Derosier's lights, elegantly juxtaposing oranges, golds, and blues, are particularly lovely in helping to score the story's temporal…
In the ugly revival of a work that doesn't belong on Broadway in the first place, the pair's already monotonous journey becomes a textureless concert that's frustratingly hard to track for a…
The score, as ever, is jammed with gems. But like a troubled couple, the production has issues. Under the direction of Whitney White, Warren and Jonas overdo their performances, pushing too …
In a season of overhyped shows, the evident sincerity, the effort, the fervent belief in character " and Warren's occasional transcendence " feels refreshing.
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Both of these performers are, of course, whopping musical talents and their mutual vocal prowess is very much on display to the obvious delight, especially, of the many Jonas fans in the hou…
Tune in to the golden age of broadcast journalism and Edward R. Murrow's (Clooney) legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow ov…
Clooney's glamour, abetted by David Cromer's suave direction, does a lot of that work; even when the actor is in some remote corner of Scott Pask's huge and infinitely reconfiguring set, you…
Director David Cromer successfully activates the stage, orchestrating that kinetic hum we associate with a network newsroom. And scenic designer Scott Pask's set is a wonder, particularly ef…
An empty reassembly of their screenplay, with period chicness substituting for tension, the play doesn't trust the audience to see the parallels between past and present, creating little mor…
This transfer from screen to stage is as intense and laser-focused as the penetrating gaze coming from its star and co-writer, George Clooney.
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It's quite a beginning, but then that curtain rises, and as lovingly detailed as Pask's newsroom set is, Cromer has to enliven a still highly cinematic script in a wide-open theatrical space…
If the drama at times seems almost as educational as it is theatrical, David Cromer's deluxe production remains classy, absorbing entertainment. It conjures the professional milieu with evoc…
Good Night, and Good Luck certainly doesn't lack point of view or conviction, but neither of those things can do much with an overly familiar story, a lack of subtlety and an odd tone of und…
Good news, everybody! You don't just have to settle for seeing superstar George Clooney on a screen anymore. You can now go see him in person… on a screen!
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