Thursday, June 12, 2025
Six-time Emmy® Award winner and Tony Award® nominee Jean Smart is back on Broadway for a limited time only, in a tour-de-force portrayal of a writer whose words are her greatest gift, her …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:49PMReturning to Broadway after 25 years in “Call Me Izzy,” which opened Thursday at Studio 54, Jean Smart crushes it in the good way.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:48PMThe first production of the new Broadway season, Call Me Izzy blesses 2025-2026 with a terrific beginning. One only hopes Tony voters have very, very long memories.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:48PMThese swerves of impulses could easily go off the tracks but the combination of the steady direction of Sarna Lapine (“Sunday in the Park With George“) and Smart’s riveting performance…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:48PMJean Smart, heading back to Broadway after a career revival on television, has plenty of talent. The trouble is she’s stuck in a production that has little idea what to do with it, other t…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:48PMSo, it all comes down to her, and Smart delivers the kind of once-in-a-lifetime performance that lingers long after the play ends. So raw, so shattering, the distance is vast between Izzy an…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:47PMThe play is dull and unchallenging. Outside of a surprise run-in with a professor — the show’s one hearty laugh that then gets overused — the story unfurls in the most obvious, stay-on…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:46PMAfter a mawkish beginning, the play somewhat redeems itself through earned emotions and an ambiguous ending that begs discussion. It’s never wise to bet against Smart, who ultimately deser…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:46PMFresh off the success of the fourth season of Hacks, Jean Smart is vibrant, tough, and matter-of-factly, darkly funny as Izzy in a way that has the audience alternating laughs and gasps of h…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:46PMSmart, returning to Broadway after some 25 years, brings astonishing clarity and depth to the part. Spinning an enticing yarn from shopworn material — the action is set in 1989, when it ma…
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Ana García dreams of flying away. But when her family’s East Los Angeles garment business receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:27PMWhat buoys it is an extremely likable cast, riding the waves of a hummable score that sounds variously of Mexico, Broadway and American pop. (The music director is Roberto Sinha.) And it doe…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMWe gossip, stitch and sweat alongside them, fully immersed in director Sergio Trujillo’s heart-expanding, joy-swollen production — yet another landmark expansion of the “Real Women” …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMCordoba, with her sweet, expressive face, is the kind of ingenue who’s easy to root for, and builds easy rapport with her family, chosen and biological. The musical trusts her to deliver, …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMAs pertinent as that notion is, it’s just one empowering theme in this triumphant musical. While some might find the plot to be all-over-the-place, it’s about Ana’s experience. Serving…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMBut politics comes most alive through the personal, and the heart of the musical lies in its characters’ dreams: those that conflict with others, those that are deferred and, most poignant…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMDirected and choreographed with plenty of energy by Sergio Trujillo, this is a musical that does what it sets out to do and, by weight of circumstance, then some. It’s got plenty of bubbly…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMWhile the hardship and terror of living in constant fear of a knock on the door or a tap on your shoulder is repeatedly conveyed in Real Women, the musical somehow flattens the experience wi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMIn a time when immigrants are being actively dehumanized throughout the United States, Real Women Have Curves provides a vital counterpoint—partly by depicting the dreams and fears of immi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMThe show’s vibe of joy and strength is crystallized in a final parade of Estela’s winningly glamorous creations (designed by Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young), underlining again the af…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMDEAD OUTLAW is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlan…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:50PMThat’s the gorgeously perverse opening of “Dead Outlaw,” the feel-good musical of the season, if death and deadpan feel good to you. As directed by David Cromer, in another of his dari…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:49PMWith its cast fully intact, Dead Outlaw comes to Broadway just as pointed and playful as it was during its acclaimed off-Broadway run last year. While so much has already been said about thi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:47PMAn unmistakable sign that musical theater is entering a thrilling new era of unlikely stories told in unexpected ways, Dead Outlaw seems destined to join the ranks of Oklahoma! and Gypsy as …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:47PMFollowing its well-received Off Broadway run produced by Audible last year, the musical retains its wickedness, vibrancy and nerve, as well as its extraordinary ensemble of actors. It also h…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMHis mortal thread is cut, and Durand spends the rest of the musical being moved around inertly in what might be the most impressive deadpan performance in history. He’s staggeringly still:…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMIn one of the quirkiest, most morbid and somehow loveliest musicals to hit Broadway this season – even Floyd Collins‘ dying spelunker plot seems conventional by comparison – Dead Outla…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMAs adaptations of popular, already-established franchises continue to pop up on Broadway, it’s thrilling to see original, truly one-of-a-kind productions like Dead Outlaw rise up to meet t…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMThe musical has many diamonds in the rough. They’re just not polished properly by Cromer’s staging, which is awfully haphazard and diffuse for a typically sure-thing director. S…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMDurand delivers the most indelible performance of the season as McCurdy: motionless, flat-eyed and unblinking as he stands upright in a wooden coffin for much of the show, reduced to a rifle…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
Look out, Jonathan’s back! Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) returns to Broadway this spring as Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarka…
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