Thursday, January 8, 2026
From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer (Prayer for the French Republic, The Band’s Visit) com…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:19PMBut what really holds this production together is Coon, an excitingly live-wire performer who sells the play’s hard-boiled poetry with conviction. “I just get sick of it, my lousy life, …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMOnce that descent begins, though, it’s a perverse thrill to the end. Aided by a masterful set change (the decaying scenery is by Takeshi Kata, spookily lit by Heather Gilbert), Cromer expe…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMPlaying a woman with a long-missing child living in constant fear of her ex’s fist, Coon conveys with exacting precision how a lifetime spent asking “why me” can push someone to seek e…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMLetts’s play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room. It’s also an acting showcase, especially for its fem…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PM“Bug” is as intimate as it is intense. The set, designed by Takeshi Kata, drops the audience right into this specific place and time. The lightning, helmed by Heather Gilbert, and the so…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMThe slipperiness of ostensible skepticism into utter credulity is what makes Bug continue to resonate so powerfully today. This is not just a particularly lurid folie à deux involving a pec…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:18PMThe Samuel J. Friedman Theater was rippling with gasps as the show played out, concern palpable in the air. Have they lost their minds? Is this really happening? There was some cowering in s…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:17PMWhile fascinating in its ambition, pretty early the momentum of the play stalls, and Bug becomes an arduous descent into loud shouting and, ultimately, no answers. Coon and Smallwood’s per…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:17PMIt goes without saying that “Bug” belongs to Coon, whose transfixing tour de force is reason enough to snap up a ticket immediately. The three-time Emmy nominee is every bit as ferocious…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:17PMMonday, December 8, 2025
It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 86-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of disparate, fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her li…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:38PMHarrison has a dream collaborator in Kauffman, who is a master at creating emotion without hitting an audience over the head. Her approach looks as if it is detached, almost clinical, but th…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMFreshly 96, June Squibb is giving one of the sharpest and most emotionally precise performances currently onstage in the Broadway premiere of Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison’s one-act abou…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMAnne Kauffman, who helmed the 2015 off-Broadway production, directs with a steady hand and a keen sense of light and sound. Sharp blackouts barely give us time to catch our breath before we …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMI kept waiting to feel … well, more. More rapt, more heartbroken, more rattled by the harrowing questions presented by the long, slow, terribly seductive suicide humanity seems bent on car…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMFrom the moment June Squibb takes the stage at the Hayes Theater in “Marjorie Prime,” you feel lucky to be in her presence. The stage and screen legend is back home on Broadway, where sh…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMAt its core, “Marjorie Prime” tells a simple kitchen-sink story of two adults trying to care for an aging relative. Harrison tries to up the ante by dipping into his gothic drawer of hor…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMMuch of the pre-opening press about this revival has revolved around the 96-year-old Squibb, who might be the oldest actor ever to play a principal role on Broadway. She merits that attentio…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMNixon’s Tess is vulnerable enough for you to sense the fear in her eyes, but this is an actress with a steely core and, indeed, Nixon turns on a dime when her character realizes, as I thin…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMFor all the grief boiling over in Marjorie Prime, I walked away yearning to be more thoroughly wounded. But Harrison’s script is less interested in piercing the heart than it is the mind. …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMThursday, November 20, 2025
An original, new musical comedy about timing, connections, and unexpected detours. Meet Dougal, an impossibly upbeat Brit who has just landed in New York City for the first time to attend th…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:49PMThe effervescent new musical comedy “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” which opened on Thursday at the Longacre Theater, is the most charmingly simple show on Broadway right…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMI felt a disorienting generational whiplash throughout the treacly rom-com Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). The latest British musical to make it through that country’s off-of…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMBut once the two are no longer strangers, the score, which most pointedly recalls Adam Gwon’s similarly small-scale tunes for Ordinary Days, loses its precision since there’s only so man…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PM“Two Strangers” is one of those rom-coms where the two lovers are wrong for each other. He’s too boyish, she’s too brittle. It’s a new soul/old soul dynamic. That frisson works ini…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMWhen the show’s creators zero in on those feelings, something a lot more specific and wistful than a love story between two strangers, the piece comes alive. If only it stayed there.
The p…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMWhat elevates the show from an assembly-line rom-com is the way Barne and Buchan balance the genre’s baked-in cliches with sharp left turns and nuanced commentary about life experience and…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PM“Two Strangers” is funny in places, occasionally moving in others, and just a little off-feeling throughout, as if it is trying too hard to charm across the storytelling and whimsy chasm…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMTutty is an absolute star in the role, displaying boisterous enthusiasm as well as a tender naivete that hints at the inevitable act two disappointment to come. The actor’s flawless comedi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMTwo Strangers could have sunk into treacly territory, but it stays afloat on a banter-filled book and twinkling contemporary score by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan. While the lyrics aren’t grou…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:47PMSunday, November 16, 2025
This fall, see powerhouse trio Tony Award® winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge!), acclaimed stage and screen star Lea Michele (Funny Girl, Glee), and breakout talent Nicholas Christopher (Swee…
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