Thursday, August 17, 2023
What’s gained by staging Chekhov in the round, with actors just feet away, sometimes lit only by a candle? It’s what you’d expect: a wonderfully intense experience of the text.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, August 10, 2023
Robert Shaw's son Ian cowrote this behind the scenes look at the filming of 'Jaws,' and plays his father.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThursday, August 3, 2023
This Broadway adaptation of the 1985 movie has some four-wheeled spectacle to offer. But not much else.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Singing! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon's direction of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMMonday, June 26, 2023
In this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about “the way the world is right now."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
This family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick tha…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMExtremely loud and incredibly verbose: a new play from Robert Icke forgoes the subtleties of showing for too much telling.
Juliet Stevenson as Ruth Wolff and Juliet Garricks as Charlie in T…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 1, 2023
There's a point here — men do terrible things and the universe will have revenge — but it's buried in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:30PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Eboni Booth’s portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater’s elemental storytelling powers. And make you cry.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMMonday, May 22, 2023
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Comer’s astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:24PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons—from Monty Python to Might…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, April 16, 2023
This revival — with a new book by Aaron Sorkin — is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
In this — wait for it — corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThursday, March 23, 2023
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it’s TikTok meets gr…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMThursday, March 9, 2023
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSunday, March 5, 2023
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Chekhov’s 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover — those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:21PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Sharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom — with laugh lines for Nathan Lane — and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:30PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Riffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:36PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Thanks to superlative casting (including Daniel Radcliffe) and canny direction, this elegant, emotionally searching production may be the finest 'Merrily' you’ll ever see.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMMonday, December 5, 2022
This sloppy Broadway embrace of Neil Diamond is a jukebox musical in search of a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:38AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
New York theater rolls into fall again with a packed schedule of Broadway, off-Broadway, and experimental theater.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:51AMFriday, July 29, 2022
At Park Avenue Armory, writer-director Robert Icke transforms Greek tragedy 'Oresteia' for a more postmodern audience.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:08PMMonday, July 25, 2022
The bestselling novel 'The Kite Runner' has been adapted marvelously for screen and now for stage yet a weak adaptation does it no justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:02PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Shakespeare adaptations come with a certain pressure, with some more successful than others. ‘Richard III’ struggles to make the cut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:45PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Revivals of Sondheim can be mixed business due to the pressure of his legacy yet some revivals. 'Into the Woods' does his legacy justice.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:47PMThursday, June 30, 2022
Robert Icke's production of 'Hamlet' at Park Avenue Armory is nearly four hours and it's mostly Hamlet throwing a weird little fit.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AM 
