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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Off-Broadway Preview: Royal Family Productions Two-Part Adaptation of “Ann of Green Gables” Runs October 17 through November 4, 2024 by David Roberts

New York: Outer Critics’ Circle award-nominated Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will prese…

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Off-Broadway News: “Our Class” at Classic Stage Company” Runs through Sunday, November 3, 2024 by David Roberts

After its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production “Our Class,” by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and helmed by Ukrainian-born, Jewi…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:36AM
Monday, September 30, 2024

Broadway Review: “The Hills of California” at The Broadhurst Theatre (Extended through Sunday, December 22, 2024) by David Roberts

In Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” the four Webb sisters gather in the summer of 1976 at Seaview the guesthouse on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort on…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:52PM
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II (Through Saturday, September 23, 2024) by David Roberts

The timing of the opening of Stephen Sachs “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II could not be more auspicious. Based on the true story of the 18-year-old high school senior f…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Table 17” at The Susan and Roland Frankel Theater at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space (Through Sunday, September 29, 2 by David Roberts

The latest production to open at MCC Theatre is the world premiere of the new play “Table 17” penned by Douglas Lyons and under the direction of Zhailon Levingston. The title refers to a…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:45PM
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

“Around the Sun” Anthology Audio Drama Series Announces its Season Four Cast via “Slice of Life” Profile by David Roberts

Around the Sun, the award-winning, anthology audio drama series created by Brad Forenza and presented via the Broadway Podcast Network, has announced its season four cast. The announcement c…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:32PM
Friday, August 23, 2024

Off-Broadway/Dance Review: “Ain’t Done Bad” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage (Through Sunday, September 1, 2024) by David Roberts

Jakob Karr’s “Ain’t Done Bad,” currently running at the Irene Diamond Stage, portrays the familiar story of a young LGBTQ man (Jakob Karr) attempting to grapple with his sexual ident…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:50AM
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Broadway Review: “Once Upon a Mattress” at The Hudson Theatre (Through Saturday, November 30, 2024) by David Roberts

The latest revival to open on Broadway is the classic “Once Upon a Mattress” with music by Mary Rogers, her first Broadway show, and an adapted book by Amy Sherman-Palladino, from the or…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:02PM
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Music News: PS Classics Presents the Long-Awaited Original Cast Recording of “Sycamore Trees” by David Roberts

PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, will release the original cast recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s acclaimed autobiographical musical Sy…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:56AM
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Broadway Review: “Job” at the Helen Hayes Theater (Through Sunday, September 29, 2024) by David Roberts

At the beginning of “Job” which is currently running at the Helen Hayes Theater, Jane (a frenetic yet oddly focused Sydney Lemmon) enters Lloyd’s (a seemingly focused yet not fully at …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:59PM
Monday, July 29, 2024

Theatre News: SoHo Rep and Playwrights Horizons Enter Space-Sharing Partnership as SoHo Rep Departs Home of Nearly 30 Years by David Roberts

Soho Rep (Directors Cynthia Flowers, Caleb Hammons, Eric Ting) and Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, Managing Director Casey York), two of New York’s most influentia…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:24PM
Friday, June 28, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Welkin” Never Comes to a Verdict at Atlantic Theater Company (Through Sunday, July 7, 2024) by David Roberts

Twenty-one-year-old Sally Poppy (a powerful yet broken Haley Wong) is convicted of murdering young Alice Wax and sentenced to hang in March of 1759 on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, in E…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:53PM
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Breaking the Story” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater (Through Sunday, June 23, 2024) by David Roberts

The newest offering at Second Stage’s Kiser Theatre is a production of a new play penned by Alexis Scheer titled “Breaking the Story” which centers around a war correspondent who is ac…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:25AM
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Lonely Few” at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater (Through Sunday, June 2, 2024). by David Roberts

The most recent offering at MCC Theater is a new musical entitled “The Lonely Few” with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and a book penned by Rachel Bonds. Basically, it can be considered …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:00AM
Monday, May 20, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre (Through Sunday, June 9, 2024) by David Roberts

Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Ridi…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Broadway Review: The Who’s “Tommy” at the Nederlander Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

There are very few words not sung but spoken in the rock musical “Tommy,” but three that might be relevant are “Brilliant, wasn’t it?” spoken by a local lad that happens to be part…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:52PM
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Broadway Review: “Water for Elephants” at the Imperial Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

When does “life” begin? Depending upon one’s religious beliefs, or scientific beliefs, or social media threads, the answer to the question is different. Does “life” begin at concep…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:36AM
Friday, March 29, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Hamlet” at the Orpheum Theater (Through Sunday, April 14, 2024) by David Roberts

Adapted by Eddie Izzard’s sibling Mark Izzard, this “Hamlet” is among the best “Hamlets” on stage, screen, or stream. From the first scene of the iconic tragedy on the battlements …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:30PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Dead Outlaw” at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (Through Sunday, April 14, 2024) by David Roberts

Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. Mc…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:44AM
Monday, March 25, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature Center (Through Sunday, March 31, 2024) by David Roberts

As patrons enter the performance of Jordan Seavey’s “The Seven Year Disappear” at The Pershing Square Signature Center, they see Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) sitting across from her thirty-s…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:13AM
Friday, March 22, 2024

Broadway Review: “Doubt: A Parable” at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Through Sunday, April 21) by David Roberts

“Doubt” can produce several similar congenial feelings such as uncertainty, suspicion, uneasiness, apprehension, distrust and confusion. Usually there is a situation or event that occurs…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:41PM
Monday, March 18, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Notebook” at the Gerald Schoenfield Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

If you did not read the Nicholas Sparks novel “The Notebook,” you most likely saw the movie of the same name based on the novel and if you saw the movie chances are you have plans to see…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:51PM

Off-Broadway Review: “The Ally” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Through Sunday, March 24, 2024) by David Roberts

Asaf and the members of the audience are the unwitting protagonists of Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” which is currently running at the Public’s Anspacher Theater. Asaf Sternheim (a well-…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:28PM
Monday, March 11, 2024

Broadway Review: “Appropriate” at the Hayes Theater (Currently On) by David Roberts

According to the dictionary, there are several definitions of the word ‘appropriate,’ but there may possibly be one that could be added, that being “a brilliant play by Brandon Jacob-J…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:28PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “I Love You So Much I Could Die” at New York Theatre Workshop (Through Sunday, March 10, 2024) by David Roberts

Microsoft’s David Text to Speech Voice read’s Mona Pirnot’s script aloud (scored with sequences of punctuation to create pauses and silences) as the playwright sits with her back to th…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:28PM

Off-Broadway Review: “The Connector” at MCC Theater (Through Sunday, March 17, 2024) by David Roberts

The world premiere musical “The Connector” with a book by Jonathon Marc Sherman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown now playing at MCC Theater certainly has a suitable title on ma…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:39PM
Friday, February 2, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Jonah” at Roundabout Theatre Company (Through Sunday, March 10, 2024) by David Roberts

The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippe…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:10PM
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Broadway Review: “Days of Wine and Roses” at Studio 54 (Currently On) by David Roberts

Since the Atlantic Theater Company first announced that Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara would lead the cast of the new musical “Days of Wine and Roses” based on the book by JP Mi…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:30AM
Monday, January 22, 2024

Liver & Lung’s Queer, Muslim Cabaret Preview: “Shafeeq Shajahan Shivam Sundaram” at London’s Soho Theatre (10th and 17th February, 2024 On by David Roberts

Award-winning Malaysian director and performer, Shafeeq Shajahan, invites you to “Satyam Shivam Sundaram”, a cabaret odyssey that peels back the layers of his queer, Muslim heritage. Pre…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:32PM
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Off-Broadway Review: “Hell’s Kitchen” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Through Sunday, January 7, 2024) by David Roberts

Immediately after the first number in the new musical “Hell’s Kitchen” which is a loosely based auto biographical story about musician Alicia Keys growing up and coming of age during t…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:06PM

Off-Broadway Review: “Translations” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, December 31, 2023) by David Roberts

Language and translation serve as powerful tropes for colonial ownership in Brian Friel’s “Translations” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company through Sunday. December 31, 2023.…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:50PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
TBA: Titanic