Monday, December 10, 2018
★★★★ Versatile playwright-performer Heather Raffo continues to explore her Middle Eastern heritage with a Christmas-set family drama
The post Noura: On Marriage, Motherhood, Refugees…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:30PMThursday, December 6, 2018
★★ To quote Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning screenplay, this Network messes with the primal forces of nature
The post Network: Maddening As Hell appeared first on New York Stage Review.
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:50PMSunday, November 18, 2018
★★★ In their first-ever shared New York stage appearance, the dynamic real-life siblings star as brother and sister in Theresa Rebeck’s family drama
The post Downstairs: Tim and Tyne…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:00PMMonday, November 12, 2018
★★★★ David Rossmer and Steve Rosen’s musical is as sweet as a bag of half-price Kit Kats
The post The Other Josh Cohen: A Lovable Loser’s Valentine appeared first on New York…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 07:31PMSunday, November 4, 2018
★★★ Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale star in this all-too-timely drama from lawyer/playwright Christopher Demos-Brown
The post American Son: Ripped From the Headlines appeared firs…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:01PMFriday, November 2, 2018
★★★★ Though it be but little, it is fierce. The Mobile Unit’s made-to-travel Midsummer doesn’t skimp on the laughs or the fairy dust.
The post A Midsummer Night’s Dream: We Bel…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 10:00PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
★★ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu’s disconnected drama
The post Good Grief: A Middling Drama From Writer/Star Ngozi Anyanwu appeared first on …
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:35PMThursday, October 25, 2018
★★★★ The inimitable Elaine May makes her long-awaited Broadway return in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s wonderfully unsentimental memory play
The post The Waverly Gallery: Real Ta…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:50PMSunday, October 21, 2018
★★★★★ Jez Butterworth’s London smash arrives in New York with a massive cast, enormous buzz, a goose, and a rabbit
The post The Ferryman: An Intimate, Intense Irish Epic appeared…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:45PMThursday, October 18, 2018
★★★ Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, and Daniel Radcliffe star in a surprisingly compelling drama about—wait for it—magazine fact-checking
The post The Lifespan of a Fact: Can You Ha…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:45PM★★★ Playwright Emily Mann, director Diane Paulus, and an all-female creative and production team join forces with journalist, author, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem
The post Gloria: …
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:30PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
★★ A birthday dinner takes a dark turn in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s English countryside–set drama
The post Apologia: Stockard Channing as Mother Inferior appeared first on New York Stage…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:30PMSunday, October 14, 2018
★★★ Aasif Mandvi plays six characters in this 20th-anniversary revival of his Obie-winning one-man show
The post Sakina’s Restaurant: Aasif Mandvi Returns to His Roots appeared first…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:39PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
★★★ Primary Stages’ triptych of Gurney shorts—which includes the late playwright’s newest, “Final Follies”—comes up a bit short
The post Final Follies: Something Old, Somet…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:01PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
★★★★ Janet McTeer is divine in Theresa Rebeck’s metatheatrical ode to Sarah Bernhardt and Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane
The post Bernhardt/Hamlet: What a Piece of Work appeared f…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:52PMSunday, September 23, 2018
★★★ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
The post A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic appe…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 05:45PMThursday, September 20, 2018
★★★ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White’s 1977-set political play
The post The True: The Dirty Business of Party Politics appeared first on New…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:00PM★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway’s current Carole King in the long-running biomusical
The post Beautiful: Some Kind of Won…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 04:30PMSunday, September 16, 2018
★★★★ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
The post Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russi…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 10:01PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
★★★ Jen Silverman’s characters are smart, sharp-tongued, and far from stereotypical. Try to keep up.
The post Collective Rage: All Betties, All the Time appeared first on New York St…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 10:03PMFriday, September 7, 2018
★★★★ Another World War I–era novel from ‘War Horse’ author Michael Morpurgo gets the theatrical treatment
The post Private Peaceful: One Soldier’s Story, in Multiple Voices a…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 07:27AMSunday, August 26, 2018
★★ The Mint Theater digs up Lillian Hellman’s long-forgotten, failed 1936 drama
The post Days to Come: Less-Than-Mint-Condition Hellman appeared first on New York Stage Review.
Linked From nystagereview.com at 07:00PMThursday, August 23, 2018
★★★★ The National Asian American Theatre Company condenses Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays into a two-part, five-and-a-half-hour experience
The post Henry VI: Stop and Smell the…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 04:37PMMonday, August 13, 2018
★★ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical
The post Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Déjà Vu All Over Again appeared first on New York Stage Review.
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:30PMThursday, July 26, 2018
★★★★ Mad about the Go-Go’s? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.
The post Head Over Heels: The Beat Goes On appeared first on New York S…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:31PMMonday, July 23, 2018
★★★ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
The post Straight White Men: Check Their Privi…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:50PMThursday, July 12, 2018
★★★★★ Tracy Letts returns to the Midwest with a subdued but stunning play about someone “unexceptional”
The post Mary Page Marlowe: Six Actresses, One Amazing Woman appeared fi…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:31PM★★★★ The late Michael Friedman receives a fitting tribute at Encores! Off-Center with The Civilians’ melancholy Gone Missing.
The post Gone Missing: Requiem for a Composer appeared…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 03:35PMThursday, June 28, 2018
★★★ Melissa Errico and Stephen Bogardus star in Irish Rep’s stripped-down, chamber-style revival of the 1960s musical.
The post On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: A Fine Romance app…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:29PM★★★ Jason Robert Brown fans rejoice! The Tony-winning composer’s first work is getting the Encores! treatment.
The post Songs for a New World: Reach for the ‘Stars’ appea…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 04:34PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
★★★★ Oscar and Tony nominee Carey Mulligan captivates in a gritty one-woman drama from Matilda scribe Dennis Kelly.
The post Girls & Boys: You Just Can’t Look Away appeared fi…
Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:00PM 
