Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Broadway Review: “Swept Away” at the Longacre Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

“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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Sunday, December 1, 2024

Broadway Review: “Our Town” at the Barrymore Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

“Our Town” by Thorton Wilder is recognized as a classic, and the revival now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, directed by Kenny Leon is the perfect example of why it h…

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Beacon” at the Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, November 24, 2024) by David Roberts

In Nancy Harris’s “The Beacon,” currently on at the Irish Repertory Theatre, four characters navigate through life’s rough waters. Three make it. One is still lost at sea. The back w…

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “DRAG: The Musical” at New World Stages (Through Sunday, March 30, 2025) by David Roberts

“DRAG: the Musical” which was originally released as a concept album and had brief runs in Los Angeles in 2022 and 2024 has made its way to an off-Broadway theatre at New World Stages. T…

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Broadway Review: “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The main problem with “Tammy Faye,” currently on at the Palace Theatre is not the vapid lyrics by Jake Shears or the bland book by James Graham. Unfortunately, the “New Broadway Musica…

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Deep History” at the Public Theater’s Shiva Theater (Through Sunday, November 10. 2024) by David Roberts

The Public Theatre is currently offering the North American Premiere of “Deep History,” written and performed by David Finnigan, which addresses the critical subject of global warming an…

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Broadway Review: “Romeo + Juliet” at Circle in the Square (Through Sunday, February 16, 2025) by David Roberts

In a recent “New York Times” guest essay, Drew Lichtenberg writes that although “the American theater’s relationship to the Bard might be fraying” with “a long history of theater…

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Broadway Review: “Yellow Face” at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

Something old becomes new again with the current production of “Yellow Face” by Roundabout Theatre, which has been produced nationally, and internationally since it opened off-Broadway a…

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Broadway Review: “The Roommate” at the Booth Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

It has been a long journey for “The Roommate,” the dark comedy by Jen Silverman, to finally arrive on Broadway since its premiere in 2015 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Fest…

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Monday, October 21, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Vladimir” at New York City Center Stage I (Through Sunday, November 10, 2024) by David Roberts

At first glance, Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Vladimir,” currently at New York City Center Stage I, might receive a “what’s new” reaction from the audience. But the importance Erika…

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Through Sunday, December 22, 2024) by David Roberts

Strings McCrane (a complex, unsettled, and conflicted Adam Driver) did not need to be overly mindful when he was a world-famous country and western singer and a movie star: he had teams deci…

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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Big Gay Jamboree” at the Orpheum Theatre (Through Sunday, January 19, 2025) by David Roberts

The Orpheum Theatre is hosting the newest campy musical “The Big Gay Jamboree,” with a book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage. Ms. Mindelle, who is known for the cult favorite …

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Counter” at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Sunday, November 17, 2 by David Roberts

Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machin…

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Broadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Through Sunday, November 24, 2024) by David Roberts

“McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime