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Living Is Harder: Suffs and Grenfell Suffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 17, 2024
The Wiz Rolls Back Into TownBig high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
theater review
Apr. 16, 2024
Writing Down the Bones: Sally & Tom A curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 15, 2024
Look, I Made a Woman: Lempicka The musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 14, 2024
St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of Rats The Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing) A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 28, 2024
Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s Tommy Yes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 27, 2024
Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 24, 2024
Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come! At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 21, 2024
Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 19, 2024
In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 18, 2024
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 14, 2024
Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The Effect A musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 11, 2024
Corruption’ s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 10, 2024
The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead Outlaw From the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through Movement Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 1, 2024
Brooklyn Laundry ’s Drama Has Been Worn to DeathJohn Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
theater review
Feb. 28, 2024
In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All Having Itamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing Pericles An affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Cynthia Nixon Does Anything But Vanish in The Seven Year Disappear She and Taylor Trensch lead an ambitious, if rangy, survey of mother-son dynamics.
theater review
Feb. 25, 2024
Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt In this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 22, 2024
The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last Jam From tap to vocals, an astonishing achievement for such a short run.
theater review
Feb. 20, 2024
Sunset Baby’ s Troubled Children of the RevolutionDominique Morisseau’s play looks at the time after revolutionary fire is reduced to a simmer.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 14, 2024
Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda Bara Two solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 13, 2024
Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The Apiary Virtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 12, 2024
Reviews: Onstage, Trauma Times 3 Reviews of Munich Medea, Self Portraits (DELUXE), and you don’t have to do anything.
theater review
Feb. 11, 2024
Too Too Solid: Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet The British comedian, so deft on a standup stage, has a go at Shakespeare—and tightens up.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 8, 2024
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Feb. 8, 2024
The Trouble With Trolls, in Russian Troll Farm Sarah Gancher’s play takes us to the bunker where disinformation begins its journey.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 7, 2024
We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following Evening A maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 6, 2024
Editorial Notes on The Connector “Can we get more specific in this section right here?”
theater review
Feb. 2, 2024
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 28, 2024
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 25, 2024
The Encores! Once Upon a Mattress Is the Biggest Summer-Camp Show Ever Sutton Foster and friends play it really big and really broad for this lively short run.
theater review
Jan. 25, 2024
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 24, 2024
The Long Zoom of Public Obscenities A story of bringing a partner home to Kolkata is steeped in naturalism.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 17, 2024
Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week Two Puppets, worms, toilets, and a really aggressive Shakespeare take.
By Sara Holdren
theater reviews
Jan. 11, 2024
Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week One On finding eccentric Miranda July commentary and gonzo race commentary during January’s experimental-theater blitz.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 9, 2024
Can You Put Your Faith in Prayer for the French Republic ? It’s a timely and engaged play, but that engagement is glib.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Dec. 18, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Dec. 17, 2023
A Cold-Blooded Night of the Iguana A Tennessee Williams curio whose temperature never rises above a simmer.
theater review
Dec. 15, 2023
When the Play’s Not the Thing Too often, great performances and stagecraft are let down by the script behind them.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Dec. 10, 2023
The Too-Steady Charm of How to Dance in Ohio A winning cast of autistic actors elevates a rote concept.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Dec. 5, 2023
Reflections on Lost Lands: Manahatta and Life & Times of Michael K Onstage, the commoditization of Lenape land and the reclamation of a South African farm.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Dec. 4, 2023
A Decent Docent: Gavin Creel’s Walk on Through A tour from a “museum novice” that’s also an autobiography.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Nov. 30, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 21, 2023
At Playwrights Horizons, a Tinge of the Fringe Amusements, School Pictures, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land are running in repertory.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 21, 2023
The Gardens of Anuncia Is a Musical That Thinks SmallBased on Graciela Daniele’s life story, it deliberately leaves her as a secondary character.
By Jackson McHenry
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