Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Packed with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:07AMMonday, November 13, 2023
The story of the Comedian Harmonists—the German (and Jewish) singing sensations forced to break up due to the Third Reich—is told in this amiable if derivative musical.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:18PMThursday, November 2, 2023
This tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSunday, October 29, 2023
This portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMMonday, October 23, 2023
The one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim’s final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:39PMThursday, October 12, 2023
It the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
The Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O’Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:13PMThursday, September 28, 2023
In no way does Etheridge reinvent the solo theatrical memoir. But she performs with a natural ease, like your wild aunt telling stories over beers one Thanksgiving.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
At the center of a prodigious cast and Kenny Leon’s clockwork staging are Leslie Odom Jr. and the astonishing Kara Young.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMSunday, September 17, 2023
Playwright Rebecca Gilman's keenly observed drama arrives Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre for a limited run.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The most satisfying new work since last season’s 'Downstate' has an obscenely gifted cast, led by Christina Kirk.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMFriday, September 1, 2023
Experiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:43AMThursday, 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 08:00PM 
