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Friday, August 9, 2019

Review: Bat Out of Hell: The Musicalat curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical is a rock concert for rock lovers repelled by rock concerts.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:47AM
Friday, July 26, 2019

Review: Moulin Rouge! The Musicalat curtainup.com by Charles Wright

Excerpt: a brightly wrapped, intricately decorated package with little inside. It's racy, sometimes vulgar, and always indifferent to historical context and narrative logic. This makes it…

SOURCE: at 09:10AM
Friday, June 28, 2019

Review: A Strange Loop at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Michael R. Jackson's semi-autobiographical musical transforms oversharing into high art.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:25PM
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Review:Happy Talk at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

nberg's new melodrama presented by The New Group, Susan Sarandon is making a meal on an unappetizing character.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:13AM
Monday, March 11, 2019

Review: Be More Chill at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

a musical for Millennialsm that has the brassy, old-Broadway sound of Burt Bacharach's Promises, Promises and the 1971 revisal of No, No, Nanette.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:15AM
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Review:Eve's Song at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

a play that depicts vividly and with humor the toxic effects of racism. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AM
Friday, October 26, 2018

Review: Fireflies at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

This second play in an ambitious trilogy is a gifted young writer’s reflection on the civil rights movement.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:01AM
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Review: The Lifespan of a Fact at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

This high-velocity, three-character play is an ideal boulevard comedy for the Trump era.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:54AM
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Review: The Emperor at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

a theatrical reflection on how the fantasies of present day autocratic leaders rely on their so-called "base" to maintain their hold on power. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AM
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Review: The Saintliness of Margery Kempe at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

An impressive cast revives a long forgotten idiosyncratic comedy from the late 1950s

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:37AM
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Review:Sugar in Our Wounds at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Director Ali steers this production along a narrow path that runs between the realistic and the fanciful, ensuring that the five fine actors do justice both to what's straightforward and to …

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:04AM
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Review:Love and Intrigue at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

According to this high concept production, love and passion are the only available counterweight to all the evil in Friedrich Schiller's fictional universe -- and, presumably, in our grim mo…

SOURCE: at 09:28AM
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Review: Long Day's Journey into Night at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

The Bristol Old Vic has brought New York a creditable staging of O'Neill's masterpiece. Lesley Manville is giving a performance that's damn near definitive. How fitting that these British Ty…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:02PM
Friday, April 27, 2018

Review:The Iceman Cometh at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

l With Denzel Washington at its center, this production qualifies as a star revival. But the star is supported by 18 unusually able actors

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:11AM
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Review:Babette's Feast at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Theater aficionados will savor the actors' ability to conjure the feast with a few props and Dinesen's words. Those attending on the strength of the movie's reputation may find the lack of r…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:28PM
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Review:An Ordinary Muslim at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Hammaad Chaudry's timely family drama at New York Theatre Workshop

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:08AM
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Review: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Adrienne Kennedy is renowned for a style of dramatic writing that's all her own. And this new play is as poetic, mysterious, and intricately structured as one might expect from her past work

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:41PM
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Review:The Undertaking at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

The Civilians Investigative Theater's artistic director Steve Cosson's two-hande is, primarily, a reflection on the dread of d

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:00PM
Monday, December 4, 2017

Review: SpongeBob SquarePants at curtainup.com by Charles Wright

d Ethan Slater, Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants joins a long list of cartoon characters who have gravitated to the Broadway stage.

SOURCE: at 09:51PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017

People, Places & Things at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Macmillan's play is a timely depiction of the physical, psychological, and social impact of addiction. It's hard to imagine the sundry crafts of theater being brought together more expertl…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:18AM
Monday, October 23, 2017

Review:Strange Interlude at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Though popular in O'Neill's day, the Freudian asides and marathon running time have proved stumbling blocks for later audiences. But Greenspan's marathon approach may have found the sec…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AM
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Review: Charm at curtainup.com by Charles Wright

a talented cast conjures the figures from playwright Philip Dawkins' fertile imagination, creating a group portrait that's vivid, credible, and heartbreaking. Read

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:18AM
Monday, September 11, 2017

Review:The Baroness at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

this tale of obsession fabricated from odds and ends of the historical record isn't likely to send playgoers in search of Isak Dinesen's literary works

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:47PM
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Review: Potomac Project 2017 at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

 Potomac pairs Howard Barker's Pity In History and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:42AM
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Review: Death of a Salesman at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Mitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:37AM
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Review: Soulpepper's Spoon River at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Soulpepper's musical tribute to Edgar Lee Masters

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:11AM
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Review:Somebody's Daughter at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

Playwright Chisa Hutchinson proves herself a sharp-eyed observer of character with an up-to-the minute ear for how Americans of differing ages and backgrounds speak and interact.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:25PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Review:Happy Days at curtainup.com by Charles Wright

Dianne Wiest joins a roster of distinguished stage performers who have undertaken the role over the 56 years since its premiere

SOURCE: at 09:12AM
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Review:Bandstand at curtainup.com/ by Charles Wright

The masterful choreographer of Hamilton and a first-class musical theater team have concocted a show that mixes music inspired by the swing era with an overall sensibility that's up-to-the-m…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:53PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Review: The Little Foxes at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer and Charles Wright

our review now covers a report on both Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon's performances.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AM
Friday, March 17, 2017

Review: Sundown, Yellow Moonat curtainup.com by Charles Wright

- Author Rachel Bonds calls it a "Nighttime Play with Songs," and much of its dramatic struggles do take place in the dark . . .

SOURCE: at 09:06PM

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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