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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘The Other Side and ‘Show Way’ Go to BAM by Alexis Soloski

A dance performance of “The Other Side” and a musical adaptation of “Show Way” head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences.

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Monday, February 26, 2024

Review: Fiasco Theater’s ‘Pericles,’ the Cruise of a Lifetime by Alexis Soloski

If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another’s work.

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway by Alexis Soloski and Peter Fisher

Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.

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Friday, February 16, 2024

Tobias Menzies on ‘The Crown’ and His Role in ‘The Hunt’ by Alexis Soloski

The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on “The Crown.” And now he brings that stoicism to “The Hunt,” onstage in Brooklyn.

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The Vocal Coach Who Keeps Broadway (and Patti LuPone) in Tune by Alexis Soloski

“She saved my career,” Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter.

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

With ‘Mean Girls,’ When Trailers Hit Mute on the Musical by Alexis Soloski

With “Mean Girls,” “Wonka” and “The Color Purple,” why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Edge of the aisle seat: the case of the theatre critic who becomes a sleuth by Alexis Soloski

Countless nights spent reviewing plays informed Here in the Dark, a novel of psychological suspense in which critical faculties are essential to solving a real-life drama My first profession…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

At a Revamped Under the Radar, New York Greets a ‘Global Downtown’ by Alexis Soloski

No longer at the Public, the annual celebration of experimental theater disperses 17 productions across the city. About half are international works that are getting harder to import.

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Friday, December 8, 2023

Mentalist Mayhem in ‘Mind Mangler’ and Other New Magic Shows by Alexis Soloski

There is something for everyone, even the kids, in “Mind Mangler,” “The Magician” and “Mario the Maker Magician.”

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Casey Likes of ‘Back to the Future,’ Is on a Roll by Alexis Soloski

At 21, he already has two Broadway leads under his belt. On Thursdays, he sheds Marty McFly’s signature vest for a bowling shirt.

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Friday, November 24, 2023

‘Manahatta,’ Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Play About the Lenape, Comes Home by Alexis Soloski

The show, which toggles between the 17th century and the early 21st, arrives on the island on which it is largely set.

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Big Apple Circus Review: A Show That Bends Over Backward for You by Alexis Soloski

The extraordinary within the everyday: A holiday season rite returns with aerialists, trapeze acts, funny clowns (really!) and cotton candy too.

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Curtains Down, Bottoms Up: When the Show Ends, the Night’s Just Getting Started by Alexis Soloski

“Dead Letter No. 9,” “Cocktail Magique” and “Hypnotique” are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

‘Sleep No More’ to Close in January by Alexis Soloski

The Off Broadway production opened at the McKittrick Hotel in 2011, and helped to alter and expand the landscape of immersive theater.

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Friday, November 3, 2023

‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro Embodies a Life and a Libido by Alexis Soloski

Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth’s willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

‘I’m Still Alive’: Sean Young Takes the Stage in ‘Ode to the Wasp Woman’ by Alexis Soloski

“I walk into a show and everybody’s kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, ‘Oh, but you’re so nice,’” the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Under the Radar to Return, With New Partners by Alexis Soloski

The festival of experimental work is planning a citywide event at multiple venues in January, after the Public Theater declined to fund the 2024 iteration.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

In Season 3 of ‘Only Murders,’ the Show, and the Deaths, Went On by Alexis Soloski

Tuesday’s finale of “Only Murders in the Building” wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Something for Everyone, Even Cannibals, at the Philadelphia Fringe by Alexis Soloski

The festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

In ‘The Refuge Plays,’ Nicole Ari Parker Comes Home by Alexis Soloski

“What the theater gives me is the feeling that I’m using everything,” the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall by Laura Collins-Hughes, Alexis Soloski, Brittani Samuel and Rhoda Feng

We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season.

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Friday, September 8, 2023

Rachel Bloom Enjoys the Ride by Alexis Soloski

The writer and actress visits Coney Island as the New York leg of “Death, Let Me Do My Show” arrives Off Broadway.

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad Tackle Another Book (Not Mormon) by Alexis Soloski

Twelve years after opening “The Book of Mormon,” the two actors — and good friends — return with “Gutenberg! The Musical!”

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Feminist Stories Are Being Set to a Pop Beat. But Are They Empowering? by Alexis Soloski

Our critics debate how well shows like “Six,” “& Juliet” and “Once Upon a One More Time” engage with the inner worlds of women onstage.

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Monday, August 21, 2023

‘El Mago Pop’ Review: Antonio Díaz’s Magic Show Is Charming by Alexis Soloski

In his Broadway debut, the illusionist Antonio Díaz does levitation and teleportation. But it’s simple tricks, with cards and balls, that really wow.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

In ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ the Theater of War Is a Comedy by Alexis Soloski

How a theater collective transformed the too-weird-to-be-true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme into a West End musical with heart.

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Friday, July 14, 2023

Movie Stars and Broadway Veterans Share Theater Camp Memories by Alexis Soloski

In honor of “Theater Camp,” a new movie about a fictional sleepaway site, we asked Broadway veterans and movie stars for their favorite camp memories.

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Friday, June 30, 2023

‘The Democracy Project’ Brings Drama to Federal Hall by Alexis Soloski

In a show staged in Federal Hall, five prominent playwrights tell the story of the site of significant events in the country’s founding, without glossing over the uglier parts.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves by Alexis Soloski

The magician worked with the playwright Lucas Hnath to create “a more vulnerable version of magic performance,” Hnath said.

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Monday, June 19, 2023

In NYC, an Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Takes You Back in Time by Alexis Soloski

The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptation…

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

William Jackson Harper Needed to Do ‘Primary Trust’ by Alexis Soloski

The longtime New York actor explains why his character in Eboni Booth’s play about a lonely bookstore worker is closer to him than any other he’s taken on.

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All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards