But it's Lithgow's ability to be quiet and sweet and seconds later booming and scary that makes us squirm in our seats over our own feelings toward the writer. At times, we really do like hi…
Lithgow " so nimble and charismatic and then suddenly so imposing, with no aversion to the grotesque " knows how to bring out the insecurity that almost always festers at the center of any p…
Lithgow's portrayal of Dahl is ultimately fearsome, but the play's moral complexity marks it as more than a portrait of the artist as a difficult man. It's a provocative study in the ongoing…
Lithgow's remarkable Olivier Award-winning performance " at this point in the far-from-over Broadway season he and Every Brilliant Thing's Daniel Radcliffe seem headed for a showdown " is a …
Rosenblatt is too good at his job. He's only about 20 minutes into his play and he already delivers a great ending. Unfortunately, there's no place for the drama to go for the next two hours…
One Actor. One Audience. One million reasons. Tony Award® winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to the stage in the hilarious and heartwarming play, Every Brilliant Thing. In this one-of-a-kind…
Radcliffe doesn't just do away with the fourth wall, he manages to expand his magical aren't-people-wonderful optimism to include the whole orchestra, mezzanine and balcony. The post Daniel …
That some 50 minutes later Radcliffe would have me, along with the rest of the crowd, stand up to do the wave without an ounce of cynicism speaks to his extraordinary charm as a performer, a…
Even Radcliffe's seemingly effortless charisma can't entirely disguise a shallow, generic feeling at the heart of Every Brilliant Thing. For all its noble intentions, this mixture of TED Tal…
In their arresting play, "Every Brilliant Thing," co-creators Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe are tackling suicide and deep-seated depression with a levity and wit rarely depicted on stag…
He's a human ping-pong ball, a fizzing sparkler, a genuinely effervescent, generous, and curious individual whose dynamic is less Former Star of $35 Billion Media Franchise and more Adorable…
Primo tickets for Every Brilliant Thing cost more than $400, and if you don't mind spending top dollar on a dime-thin show, this one won't disappoint; it's diverting and at times even touchi…
Every Brilliant Thing is unsparing and clear-eyed in its presentation of the realities of depression and suicide, yet glows with a hopeful, life-affirming aura that convincingly depicts the …
Watching one of the most famous faces on planet Earth literally work the room " bouncing manically from row to row and enthusiastically thanking those who agree to participate " is an absolu…
For its Broadway debut, the production wisely preserves the intimacy that defined earlier stagings. The Hudson Theatre has effectively been arranged to recreate the closeness of the Barrow S…
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…