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Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
By Sara Holdren
Your Secret Is Safe With Paapa Essiedu The star of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect would never gossip behind your back.
Climate Protesters Interrupt An Enemy of the People Performance Michael Imperioli stayed in character, shooing the protesters away.
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
last night on late night
Mar. 13, 2024
Carrie Coon Wants The Gilded Age to Take Broadway Forget a musical episode, it’s time for a whole damn show.
don’t stop!
Mar. 12, 2024
Glee Crushes Past Haunt New York TheatersDarren Criss, Jonathan Groff, and now Grant Gustin are vindicating Ryan Murphy’s twink-casting abilities.
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
coming soon(ish)
Mar. 6, 2024
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
Lucy Prebble’s Messy Women The playwright on Succession fan theories, her characters’ possible mental-health diagnoses, and if we’ll ever get another season of I Hate Suzie .
in conversation
Feb. 28, 2024
Made for Jessica Lange Her haunting role in Mother Play , like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.
it’s theater season
Feb. 27, 2024
How to Write a Fake Rock Song The musician Will Butler on his new Broadway banger.
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.
it’s theater season
Feb. 26, 2024
The Weird, Wide-Eyed, Weepy, and Wild Voices on Broadway This season there are more types of voices on display than we’ve heard in a long time.
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
it’s theater season
Feb. 23, 2024
Amy Herzog and Sam Gold Are Just a Couple of Ibsen Lovers Early in their relationship, they decided never to work together. But neither could resist adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People for Broadway.
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.
it’s theater season
Feb. 22, 2024
The Playwright on HIV Med Strike Three months ago, Victor I. Cazares decided to stop taking their pills — until the New York Theatre Workshop calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
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
gird your loins
Feb. 19, 2024
weep beneath my wings
Feb. 16, 2024
a bad idea worth considering
Feb. 15, 2024
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
theater review
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
An Old Wives’ Tale In comedian Cole Escola’s debut play, Oh, Mary! , Mary Todd Lincoln gets to be an unstoppable diva, and so do they.
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
stage whisperer
Feb. 7, 2024
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 reviews
Feb. 2, 2024
Dramatizing Desire and Addiction in Jonah and The White Chip A twisty, emotional drama and a straight-down-the-line recovery comedy.
‘I’ve Never Told Anybody That Story’ Playwright John Patrick Shanley shares a buried memory for the first time on Doubt ’s 20th anniversary.
By Jim McDermott
the sara(h) era
Feb. 2, 2024
the dancer’s life
Jan. 31, 2024
Chita Rivera’s Greatest Performances (Available Online) Rivera died on January 30, but she has 58 years of Broadway performances to celebrate.
Broadway Star Chita Rivera Has Died at 91 The dazzling Puerto Rican actress originated the role of Anita in West Side Story.
theater review
Jan. 28, 2024
By Sara Holdren
truly terrific
Jan. 26, 2024
One of the Last of Its Kind on West 10th Street A Renwick Row house owned by theater critic Mel Gussow was also once home to Marcel Duchamp, Paul and Jane Bowles, and Dashiell Hammett.
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
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