Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Playwright Amy Herzog modernizes Ibsen’s original play while director Sam Gold pacifies it.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:35AMFriday, March 15, 2024
The theatrical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ landmark novel keeps audiences laughing through the love and weeping through the grief.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:49AMFriday, March 8, 2024
Ellis’ staging of this tense drama begs for more traction, energy and, ultimately, direction.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:08AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
The choreographer used to dance on her way to school. Now she's bringing those same movements to the new Alicia Keys musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMMonday, January 29, 2024
The new musical from “Light in the Piazza” creators Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas is a shallow exploration of intoxicating love.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:01AMFriday, January 26, 2024
Gen Z’s reputation for conflict avoidance, and the way digital media abets it, is a recurring theme in the latest by the “Dimes Square” playwright Matthew Gasda.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Joshua Harmon’s mature, time-sweeping drama traces a French Jewish family’s decades-long search for an impregnable place to call home.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:28AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
A relentless probe into the wickedness of one family’s history and the intoxication of their ignorance.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:50AMFriday, December 15, 2023
The family-friendly circus troupe Phare highlights the richness of Cambodian culture with gravity-defying acrobatics, Indigenous music and rousing choreography.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMMonday, December 11, 2023
The heartwarming new Broadway musical offers insight into seven autistic young adults’ pursuit of self-determination.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:06AMFriday, November 17, 2023
Goofiness is at an all-time high in director Josh Rhodes’ iteration of the time-cherished musical comedy.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:51AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s conventional new musical does a rudimentary but essential job of reviving a dead historical act.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:40AMFriday, November 3, 2023
Theresa Rebeck’s latest theatrical venture is one of her limpest — a frustratingly monotone, predictable and seasonless dose of comfort theater.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:50AMMonday, October 30, 2023
In this new version of the classic Rodgers and Hart musical, Joey is now a Black nightclub singer played by Ephraim Sykes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMThursday, October 26, 2023
This new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic remains largely faithful to the novel, but it trades subtle prose for a straightforward production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:55PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Jocelyn Bioh’s latest slice-of-African-immigrant-life comedy invites audiences into the glorious maelstrom that is a Black woman’s braiding shop.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:06AMFriday, September 29, 2023
Melissa Etheridge’s self-penned show is full of luster, vulnerability and pride — so full it almost aches for an editor.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00AMThursday, September 28, 2023
The revival of Ossie Davis’ killingly funny and perceptive 1961 play is as close to Biblical scripture as Black theater gets.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:22AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Awe-inspiring visual effects and hilarious performances drive this theatrical adaptation of the iconic film
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMMonday, July 24, 2023
Sandy Rustin’s version of a drawing room farce falls short of both feminism and comedy.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMThursday, July 20, 2023
David Byrne’s immersive musical is a thrilling pageant of theatrics, but abstracts Filipino history better than enacting it.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Richard Hollman’s tender, site-specific play explores the awkward resumption of a Covid-interrupted friendship over a deceptively innocent game of catch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Liza Birkenmeier’s abstract play is a unique exploration of romantic relationships but suffers from sleepy direction and a lack of character enrichment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Alex Edelman’s solo show about his drop-into a white nationalist meeting entertains and illuminates.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
The musical of Britney Spears songs hits all the right notes of zaniness, creativity and unbridled joy.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Blankson-Wood plays the Danish Prince at Free Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet this summer, while Spears stars in Fat Ham on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43AMThursday, June 1, 2023
Friday, May 26, 2023
In her adaptation of Lorca, Diane Exavier emphasizes the importance of belonging to a place, and how painful it is to consign memories of it to the grave.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
