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Theater Review
theater review
Yesterday at 10:00 p.m.
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 People
Murdoch’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 Production
John 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 Death
John Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
By
Jackson McHenry
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.
By
Jackson McHenry
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.
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Feb. 20, 2024
Sunset Baby’
s Troubled Children of the Revolution
Dominique 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.
By
Jackson McHenry
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
Oh, Mary!
The Play Was Hilarious, Mrs. Lincoln
Cole Escola goes berserk as the First Lady.
By
Jackson McHenry
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
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?”
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Feb. 2, 2024
Quiet Obsessions, Unplugged:
Aberdeen
and
The Animal Kingdom
A verse play about Kurt, and a therapy play about hurt.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Jan. 28, 2024
Soaring Voices and Plastic Plants in
Days of Wine and Roses
Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James at peak vocal power.
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.
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Jan. 25, 2024
Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week Three
Jack! Rose! Jack! Rose! And
Eugene Onegin.
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
An Estate That Divides: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s
Appropriate
Sarah Paulson is furious and fearsome.
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.
By
Jackson McHenry
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
The Echo From the Days of ’39: Jen Silverman’s
Spain
A cool treatment of a once-hot civil war.
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 Small
Based on Graciela Daniele’s life story, it deliberately leaves her as a secondary character.
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Nov. 19, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen:
A Familiar Diary of Alicia Keys
Conventional 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
Spamalot
Returns, and It’s Not Dead Yet
Say no more!
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
That’s the Idea, Let’s Amuse Each Other! Shannon and Sparks in
Waiting for Godot
Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks foreground the funny in Beckett.
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 Head
An adaptation of Philip Roth ends up feeling uncharacteristically tame.
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Nov. 2, 2023
I Need That
Does Not Spark Joy
Danny 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
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