What wasn't preordained is just how beautifully executed the entire venture turns out to be. You'd have to be a real stickler for tradition to begrudge Jellicle Ball its innovations, and one…
The production makes a thrilling number of choices to update and revise and comment on the bizarre musical entity borne of a posh Brit's love of T.S. Eliot's poems for children, but it retai…
By FRANK RIZZO
Broadway is burning " and that's something to celebrate.
"Cats: The Jellicle Ball," a refreshed version of the downtown 2024 hit, blazes anew, having made the trek uptown wit…
CATS: The Jellicle Ball has officially brought its runway to Broadway! The musical revival opens tonight Broadhurst Theatre. Did the critics have a ball at this innovative new production of …
Review of the Saturday, March 28, 2026 matinee preview performance at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City. Starring Andre de Shields, Ken Ard, "Tempress" Chastity Moore, Sydney James Har…
For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical, which has shifted to the queer ballroom scene.
This exhilarating Broadway production opened Tuesday at the Broadhurst Theater after its 2024 premiere at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower ...
★★★★★ You'll be feline good after this ultra-glam Broadway-meets-ballroom production
The post Cats: The Jellicle Ball: A Disco-Tastic Revival of Lloyd Webber's …
Those pesky Andrew Lloyd Weber/T.S. Eliot Cats seem to have a lot more than nine lives. This time the divisive musical, which ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000 (toppling A Chorus Line as the…
Broadhurst Theatre, New York
After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber's easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new
One criticism lobbied…
An entirely convincing how-to guide in transforming (rescuing, even) well-trod, beloved material (and, yes, the musical that gave us "Memory" is beloved, every bit as much as it is mocked) i…
It works because the ballroom setting lends weight and specificity to a narrative world that previously felt airless, abstract to the point of nothingness. It works because Webber's songs tr…
Broadway is burning " and that's something to celebrate. "Cats: The Jellicle Ball," a refreshed version of the downtown 2024 hit, blazes anew, having made the trek uptown with its extravagan…
It works because the ballroom setting lends weight and specificity to a narrative world that previously felt airless, abstract to the point of nothingness. It works because Webber's songs tr…
If there's any bygone hit musical that's ripe for reinvention, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic furball Cats " a 1981 musical megahit with mostly interchangeable characters crooning lite…
★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway
The post Cats: The Jellicle Ball: Welcome to the Glitter Box appeare…
There are solid reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of this striking production, which recasts Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical as a Ballroom competition, with a cast of fabulously …
The jellicle moon is shining bright! Tonight, CATS: The Jellicle Ball opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Directed by OBIE Award winners Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch and cho…