Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial by Chris Wiegand Stage Editor

Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, says ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’ Audiences left hungry for more suspense after the nail-biting Celebri…

The Queen of Versailles by Jacob Malizio

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In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough by Jacob Malizio

And Chenoweth is a wonder, sounding a little bit country whenever Jackie is most herself, as in “Each and Every Day,” a love song to the infant Victoria; taking her high notes out for a …

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Doesn’t Quite Reign Over Broadway by Jacob Malizio

Saddled with an unmemorable score by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin) and a confused book by Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans), Versailles glides by as bland bio-musical for much of …

The Queen of Versailles, Kristin Chenoweth in the Big House by Jacob Malizio

This A-list team has been able to create some genuinely arresting moments, but they are fleeting in a busy show that still doesn’t quite know what story it wants to tell. It’s like a hou…

Gilt or Guilt? The Queen of Versailles Can’t Decide by Jacob Malizio

There is a two-hour-and-40-minute luxury-car crash happening at the St. James Theatre. If I were the litigious type, I’d be trying to figure out how to sue for whiplash. Instead, here I am…

Kristin Chenoweth’s Electric Performance Can’t Save this Overly Ambitious Slog by Jacob Malizio

The performances, including a megatallented ensemble, are also excellent. As expected, Chenoweth is a force, and though Jackie isn’t really a “likable” figure, the Emmy Award winner dr…

Kristin Chenoweth holds court in Stephen Schwartz’s new musical. by Jacob Malizio

Like the 90,000–square-foot, $100-million palace that the Siegels are determined to build for themselves in Orlando, The Queen of Versailles is nothing if not ambitious. But like that same…

Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway in a dire musical that needs a wrecking ball by Jacob Malizio

I hoped the tag-team of Chenoweth and Arden would have magic to do. No such luck. The actress is a theatrical force, as everybody knows, but Simone Biles can’t do a back handspring on a to…

A Broadway musical as empty as the mansion it portrays by Jacob Malizio

Much like the ill-fated Tammy Faye from last year, Versailles (directed by Michael Arden) toggles between different modus operandi — in this case, campy comedic sendup, surface level socia…

Kristin Chenoweth’s Return to Broadway Is an Ostentatious Mess by Jacob Malizio

But The Queen of Versailles isn’t camp. It’s cheap tat, queasy spectacle, grubby glitz. It doesn’t burrow beneath its surface wealth to ask anything of substance. The post Kristin Chen…

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The new Stephen Schwartz musical starring Kristin Chenoweth opened at the St. James Theatre November 9.

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In Conversation with Tamara Kuldin

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Oh Happy Day! at The Public Theater — A Baptism Through Fire, Flood, and Song by Suzanna Bowling

“I RECOGNIZE THE STRUGGLE IN YOUTHE TIMES THAT YOU HATED BEING YOUIF YOU COULD SEE, WHAT I SEE IN YOUI SEE GOD IN YOU.” These are not just lyrics—they are the soul-spoken prayer of Oh …

In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough by Laura Collins-Hughes

Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.