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Emmy Winner Ayo Edebiri and Golden Globe Winner Don Cheadle make their long-awaited Broadway debuts in David Auburn's Pulitzer and Tony Award"winning PROOF. Directed by Tony winner Thomas Ka…
Cheadle and Edebiri are both down-to-earth and unshowy in their clear affection for each other, and they're warmly believable as parent and child. Cheadle is laid back to the point of liquid…
Proof is so structurally sound that any production can have an impact, which is both a gift in theory and a potential liability in practice. Both sides of that equation are why Thomas Kail's…
The cast assembled here is easily one of the best on Broadway right now. Edebiri was, frankly, the wild card, an intriguing bit of casting that nonetheless had folks wondering whether her th…
While it may take the production a moment to fully kick into gear, Proof's effective performances from its four-member cast will keep theatergoers engrossed in all of its mathematical comple…
"Proof" remains a scintillating play. Its questions about hereditary mental illness, the truth, and who can be labeled a genius " especially with a Black woman at the center " continue to re…
The more seasoned Broadway actors have the run of the stage: Ha's Hal is layered and endearing, and Kara Young"as Catherine's bougie and bossy sister, Claire, a currency analyst"is terrific …
On stage, in her Broadway debut, Edebiri leaves it to the other actors to carry the drama. That's not a great choice, but it makes for an effective first act, because the other actors are so…
A few technical missteps are nonetheless minor compared with the serious performance troubles at the heart of Kail's Proof. And yet, the unassuming strength of Auburn's writing manages to sh…
"Proof" is one of the best American dramas to emerge in the last decade of the 20th century, a script ripe for revival not least for how beautifully it focuses on a little family of imperfec…
Nick's got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on death row. About how he finally petitioned the c…
Ferrentino's choice to make Nick look like he might be an unreliable narrator thus becomes bizarre; it certainly works against the clearer passions of the documentary. If you don't know the …
Brody is expectedly watchable and uber-committed, though the white-boy-swag vibe he loves to affect becomes grating in the wandering play, whose first 80 minutes or so are mostly just Yarris…
I had no such ambivalence viewing The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino's stage adaptation, now at Broadway's James Earl Jones Theatre. I knew it was bullshit within minutes of Adrien Brody pim…
"The Fear of 13" is deeply moving. Yet it falls short of being remarkable with uneven pacing and its ever-shifting tone. Translating a documentary into a Broadway production is no easy feat.…
Even in the harshest descriptions of the violence and almost unbelievably cruel twists of fate that Yarris endured (the DNA testing keeps getting accidentally mucked up), Brody lends him a v…
In his Broadway debut, Brody brings the same intensity and hangdog vulnerability that underscore his best film performances, and if his hip-hop Yo! MTV Raps street mannerisms seem an actorly…
Ferrentino struggles to synthesize the true story's larger themes, so even if Brody has some affecting moments in the closing scenes, the play is flat, emotionally ineffectual. It's a disapp…
One leaves the Fear of 13 certainly horrified by the injustice done to Yarris, and moved by his journey to freedom, but it's a fleeting feeling. Ferrentino and Brody have not burrowed deep e…
Brody comports himself well enough. He is poised and relaxed, and the delicate, damaged spirit he brings to his heartbreaking films transitions smoothly to the theater. It's just that "The F…
From a basement Off-Broadway to an international phenomenon, TITANÃQUE sails onto Broadway for its grandest voyage yet. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, this global splash…
There's a lot to digest, and the pace doesn't help: It is so relentless that it's as if we're watching a playback at twice the normal speed. Sometimes "TitanÃque" lands and sometimes it m…
Now, amped up about as high as it can go with an all-star cast, TitanÃque is guaranteed to deliver the most fun night you will have at the theatre this year.
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In a world chugging toward dark waters, TitanÃque is a guaranteed good night out"one that ends with the whole audience singing.
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Campier than the campy Cats: The Jellicle Ball but no less generous in its embrace of queer heritage's seismic impact on American culture, TitanÃque on Broadway is bigger than a mere hoot…
