If you are not a Baby Boomer, chances are you would have never seen any of the black and white Betty Boop cartoons that made the spit curl bombshell a household name. Now that she has made h…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:57PMThe Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Out…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:25PMBroadway Bound Theatre Festival is proud to announce its 2025 Season, showcasing the brand-new works of playwrights from across the country at AMT Theater on 45th Street. “We’re so excit…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:40AMCurrently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, incl…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:33PMThe new musical “Smash,” opening on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, creates more than one bombshell, strategically detonating a multitude of explosive twists, turns, and powerful produ…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:55PMAct One of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” currently running at the Palace Theatre takes place at a well-apportioned Chinese restaurant. Skillfully navigating Mamet’s iconic word…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:23AM“The Last Five Years” featuring a book, music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, has had a long journey since first opening in Chicago in 2001. It has had two off Broadway runs, two Lond…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:19AMOne of the latest offerings to open on Broadway comes in the form of a tribute musical revue, dedicated to the incredible work of the iconic composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. It is de…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMThe themes explored in Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness” currently running at Classic Stage Company include classism and economic struggles; the resilience and strength of com…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:50PMYet another new production enters the current Broadway season boasting a well-known film and television star, a large movie screen, and several television screens that surround the prosceniu…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:17PMThere are skeletons in Helena Alving’s (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bev…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:04PMThe creative team for the musical “Buena Vista Social Club” have been hard at work making a few changes in preparation for its Broadway debut after a successful run at the Atlantic Theat…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:50PMA star-studded production has found its way to Broadway from Sydney Australia, with an adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. This transformation of the classic is wr…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:00PMIn Simon Stephens’s brilliant “Vanya,” the adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya, Andrew Scott portrays the eight main characters from the 1897 play. He depicts these familiar…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:15PMThe latest import from London is a perfect example of the broad slapstick comedy that British audiences are fond of across the pond, and it joins the ranks of several similar shows that have…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:27AMTwo half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Grangeville” currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel B…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:51PMThe first preview of the norm-disrupting production of “Julius Caesar” kicked off a promising start to this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, now in its 90th season. During the presh…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:26PMThe new play by Matthew Lombardo titled “Conversations with Mother” now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 555, is a lighthearted and comical evening of entertainment, mostly due to the ext…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:40PMThere is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center fo…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:57PMSam Shephard’s iconic 1977 “Curse of the Starving Class” is enjoying its second revival production at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The 2019 Terry Kinney revival (also at Persh…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMThe new musical “Redwood,” which recently opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, certainly lives up to the title, featuring the magnificent giant redwood tree that seamlessly mov…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:33AMThe full title of “The Antiquities” currently running at Playwrights Horizons is “A Tour of the Permanent Collection in the Museum of the Late Human Antiquities.” The title contains …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:54PMThe widely anticipated revival of “Gypsy “on Broadway has finally arrived, along with the reopening of the Majestic Theatre after a healthy renovation, requiring the theatre to be closed…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:35PMIt is important to pay attention to the title of a play, especially in the case of Leslye Headland’s well-crafted “Cult of Love” currently running at the Helen Hayes. The Dahl nuclear …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:34PMWhat could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle.…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:36AMAbby (Marisa Tomei) has co-produced records with Gus (Arliss Howard) for thirty-two years. She had been his right hand, but her name never appears on the album as co-producer. She finds tale…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:25PMFamilies of any number, age, or culture often meet for special occasions, some more special than others. Depending on the mix of those above descriptors, these get-togethers result in quite …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:35AMThe charming new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending,” now playing at the Belasco Theatre, with music composed by Will Aronson and the book and lyrics penned by Mr. Aronson and Hue Park, will c…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:42PMGone are the turban, the grand staircase, the jewels, the chandeliers, the drapes, and the viewing of Norma Desmond’s monkey in the reimagining of “Sunset Blvd.” currently running at t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:19PMAs the characters are pressured into having their dirty laundry aired in the new play “Shit. Meet. Fan.” which is now in an extended run at MCC Theater, the list of reasons why the show …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:31PM“Swept Away,” currently on at the Longacre Theatre, was inspired by the 2004 album “Mignonette” by the American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers. Although the album was suggested b…
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