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theater review
Nov. 19, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen: A Familiar Diary of Alicia KeysConventional musical-theater turf, made fresh by killer performances.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 17, 2023
Who Thought Stoppard Needs More Sex? Bedlam’s Arcadia falls into an easy trap.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 16, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 16, 2023
Is Anything Real in Scene Partners? Is Everything? John J. Caswell Jr.’s script is like an Escher drawing, endlessly spiraling in on itself.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 14, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 14, 2023
Navigating the Expanses of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Christopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza star in the 1983 John Patrick Shanley play that’s beloved of young actors.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 13, 2023
The Day the Clowns Cried: Harmony The rise of the Nazi regime, recounted in a Cabaret -adjacent musical with songs by Barry Manilow.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Nov. 8, 2023
Tragic Losses, of Life and Language, in Watch Night and Translations The destruction wrought by colonialism and racism, rendered onstage in very different ways.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 5, 2023
What’ll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It. A farcical, funny, and haunting commentary on the industrialized, globalized diet.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 2, 2023
Sabbath’s Theater Can’t Get Out of Its HeadAn adaptation of Philip Roth ends up feeling uncharacteristically tame.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Nov. 2, 2023
I Need That Does Not Spark JoyDanny and Lucy DeVito, as an almost-hoarder and his daughter, are trapped in a play full of junk.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 2, 2023
Bring a Bucket and a Mop for This Snatch & Tainty A juicy, joyful, bodily-function-obsessed trip below the belt.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Nov. 1, 2023
The ‘Yes, We Can’ Spirit of Poor Yella Rednecks Qui Nguyen’s optimistic, funny immigration tale.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 31, 2023
The Box-Checking Work Begins: Merry Me A self-described lesbian sex comedy leans on its Angels in America references.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 29, 2023
Stereophonic Goes Its Own Way, and Finds Its GrooveA very Rumours rock saga immerses you in the act of creation.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Oct. 26, 2023
Covenant Is Best When It’s At Its PulpiestWhy aren’t there more plays that lean into being genre horror?
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 23, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 23, 2023
The Last Midnight: Sondheim and Ives’s ‘Here We Are’ A strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 20, 2023
Language As Engine: Helen. and Mahinerator A feminist Trojan War parable and a monologue that leaps right over the desk to grab you.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 19, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 13, 2023
A Full, Fierce Day in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin A six-hour, three-play DruidO’Casey marathon where the ’20s rhyme with ours, unsettlingly.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 12, 2023
Gutenberg! The Musical! ’s Broadway Dreams Mostly Come TrueBook of Mormon dynamos Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad reunite on Broadway with a new mission: to elevate a delightful yet padded-out show.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 11, 2023
A Long Hike in the Woods: The Refuge Plays Nathan Alan Davis’s three-part epic falls short of its big ambitions.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Oct. 10, 2023
Here’s to Them. Who’s Like Them? Damn Few. Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Oct. 3, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 29, 2023
Melissa Etheridge Takes the Aw-Shucks Road to Broadway My Window is a night of songs and personal biography, loosely hung together.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Sept. 27, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 22, 2023
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 20, 2023
Little Shop of Blah-Blah: Theresa Rebeck’s Dig A redemption play that betrays its own premise.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Sept. 19, 2023
Did a Bot Write This Review of Prometheus Firebringer ? No, and Here’s Why Not. A script written and performed by AI in real time has unexpected effects on an audience.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 18, 2023
Job Pays Off and Clocks Out“Like a good TV crime drama, it’s manipulative in a value-neutral sense: It knows the position it wants to put you in, and it puts you there.”
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 17, 2023
In Swing State, Bleak Politics in the Tall Grass Rebecca Gilman’s story is hemmed in on all sides.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Sept. 14, 2023
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Sept. 12, 2023
The Mortal Truths of Annie Baker’s Infinite Life “This is part of Baker’s brilliance: to ruffle feathers with the calmest of breezes.”
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Sept. 10, 2023
Shadows and Seams, Both Visible: No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh In Christina Masciotti’s play about a Queens tailor facing her career’s end, the principal characters are everything.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Aug. 30, 2023
A Tempest in the Park That’s (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just Vibes In tone and temperament, this production owes much more to Disney than it does to Shakespeare.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Aug. 18, 2023
Improv on the Roof, Catharsis in Aisle 5 What Else Is True? and Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California leave our critic saying, “Yes, and …?”
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Aug. 10, 2023
The Shark Is Broken Goes Chumming for Your AffectionIan Shaw’s play bemoans big action movies’ death grip on the culture — while also venerating the voracious progenitor of them all.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Aug. 3, 2023
You Made a Musical … Out of a DeLorean? Back to the Future: The Musical is a carefully faithful spectacle.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
Aug. 1, 2023
Pregaming With Three Postcollege Brats (Plus a Dog) at Toros “The play keeps reminding you it’s a performance, which is nice in a time when many shows feel like they just want to be adapted into film or TV.”
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
July 31, 2023
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
July 24, 2023
The Cottage Needs More Doors to SlamLaura Bell Bundy and Eric McCormack lead a too-tidy farce.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
July 20, 2023
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
July 20, 2023
Here Lies Love Is an Unsettlingly Good TimeA show that portrays Imelda Marcos as blithe naïf and corrupt co-tyrant—and also enabler of a rousing dance party.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
June 28, 2023
A Hamlet in the Park That Puzzles the Will Kenny Leon’s production gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
June 26, 2023
Dropping by the Local Nazis: Alex Edelman’s Just for Us Plus: Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show, and the state of solo comedy meta-theater.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
June 22, 2023
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
June 15, 2023
Physicians, Preen Thyselves: The Doctor A play about the self-serving sanctimony of the newly canceled.
By Jackson McHenry
theater review
June 6, 2023
By Jackson McHenry
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