Tuesday, 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.
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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.
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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.
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The family-friendly circus troupe Phare highlights the richness of Cambodian culture with gravity-defying acrobatics, Indigenous music and rousing choreography.
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The heartwarming new Broadway musical offers insight into seven autistic young adults’ pursuit of self-determination.
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Goofiness is at an all-time high in director Josh Rhodes’ iteration of the time-cherished musical comedy.
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Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s conventional new musical does a rudimentary but essential job of reviving a dead historical act.
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Theresa Rebeck’s latest theatrical venture is one of her limpest — a frustratingly monotone, predictable and seasonless dose of comfort theater.
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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.
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Jocelyn Bioh’s latest slice-of-African-immigrant-life comedy invites audiences into the glorious maelstrom that is a Black woman’s braiding shop.
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Melissa Etheridge’s self-penned show is full of luster, vulnerability and pride — so full it almost aches for an editor.
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The revival of Ossie Davis’ killingly funny and perceptive 1961 play is as close to Biblical scripture as Black theater gets.
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Awe-inspiring visual effects and hilarious performances drive this theatrical adaptation of the iconic film
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Sandy Rustin’s version of a drawing room farce falls short of both feminism and comedy.
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David Byrne’s immersive musical is a thrilling pageant of theatrics, but abstracts Filipino history better than enacting it.
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Richard Hollman’s tender, site-specific play explores the awkward resumption of a Covid-interrupted friendship over a deceptively innocent game of catch.
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Liza Birkenmeier’s abstract play is a unique exploration of romantic relationships but suffers from sleepy direction and a lack of character enrichment.
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Alex Edelman’s solo show about his drop-into a white nationalist meeting entertains and illuminates.
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The musical of Britney Spears songs hits all the right notes of zaniness, creativity and unbridled joy.
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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
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
David Auburn’s eventless play bargains on feverish nostalgia and a paper-thin portrayal of friendship.
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Entering the Broadway production of “Good Night, Oscar,” I knew nothing about playwright Doug Wright’s titular figure, Oscar Levant, but I left caring for the crotchety old man as if h…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:40PMSuch is the magic of “Good Night, Oscar” and, specifically, actor Sean Hayes’ virtuosic turn as the accomplished Jewish pianist and talk show personality riddled with various mental il…
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