460 stories by "Jacob Malizio"
From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer (Prayer for the French Republic, The Band's Visit) comes…
But what really holds this production together is Coon, an excitingly live-wire performer who sells the play's hard-boiled poetry with conviction. "I just get sick of it, my lousy life, laun…
Once that descent begins, though, it's a perverse thrill to the end. Aided by a masterful set change (the decaying scenery is by Takeshi Kata, spookily lit by Heather Gilbert), Cromer expert…
Playing a woman with a long-missing child living in constant fear of her ex's fist, Coon conveys with exacting precision how a lifetime spent asking "why me" can push someone to seek extrava…
Letts's play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room. It's also an acting showcase, especially for its female …
"Bug" is as intimate as it is intense. The set, designed by Takeshi Kata, drops the audience right into this specific place and time. The lightning, helmed by Heather Gilbert, and the sound,…
The slipperiness of ostensible skepticism into utter credulity is what makes Bug continue to resonate so powerfully today. This is not just a particularly lurid folie à deux involving a p…
The Samuel J. Friedman Theater was rippling with gasps as the show played out, concern palpable in the air. Have they lost their minds? Is this really happening? There was some cowering in s…
While fascinating in its ambition, pretty early the momentum of the play stalls, and Bug becomes an arduous descent into loud shouting and, ultimately, no answers. Coon and Smallwood's perfo…
It goes without saying that "Bug" belongs to Coon, whose transfixing tour de force is reason enough to snap up a ticket immediately. The three-time Emmy nominee is every bit as ferocious and…
It's the age of artificial intelligence, and 86-year-old Marjorie " a jumble of disparate, fading memories " has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back …
Harrison has a dream collaborator in Kauffman, who is a master at creating emotion without hitting an audience over the head. Her approach looks as if it is detached, almost clinical, but th…
Freshly 96, June Squibb is giving one of the sharpest and most emotionally precise performances currently onstage in the Broadway premiere of Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison's one-act about …
Anne Kauffman, who helmed the 2015 off-Broadway production, directs with a steady hand and a keen sense of light and sound. Sharp blackouts barely give us time to catch our breath before we …
I kept waiting to feel … well, more. More rapt, more heartbroken, more rattled by the harrowing questions presented by the long, slow, terribly seductive suicide humanity seems bent on car…
From the moment June Squibb takes the stage at the Hayes Theater in "Marjorie Prime," you feel lucky to be in her presence. The stage and screen legend is back home on Broadway, where she go…
At its core, "Marjorie Prime" tells a simple kitchen-sink story of two adults trying to care for an aging relative. Harrison tries to up the ante by dipping into his gothic drawer of horrors…
Much of the pre-opening press about this revival has revolved around the 96-year-old Squibb, who might be the oldest actor ever to play a principal role on Broadway. She merits that attentio…
Nixon's Tess is vulnerable enough for you to sense the fear in her eyes, but this is an actress with a steely core and, indeed, Nixon turns on a dime when her character realizes, as I think …
For all the grief boiling over in Marjorie Prime, I walked away yearning to be more thoroughly wounded. But Harrison's script is less interested in piercing the heart than it is the mind. It…
An original, new musical comedy about timing, connections, and unexpected detours. Meet Dougal, an impossibly upbeat Brit who has just landed in New York City for the first time to attend th…
The effervescent new musical comedy "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)," which opened on Thursday at the Longacre Theater, is the most charmingly simple show on Broadway right now…
I felt a disorienting generational whiplash throughout the treacly rom-com Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). The latest British musical to make it through that country's off-off …
But once the two are no longer strangers, the score, which most pointedly recalls Adam Gwon's similarly small-scale tunes for Ordinary Days, loses its precision since there's only so many po…
"Two Strangers" is one of those rom-coms where the two lovers are wrong for each other. He's too boyish, she's too brittle. It's a new soul/old soul dynamic. That frisson works initially bec…
