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MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:
Sara Holdren
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theater review
10/7/2019
Theater Review: Deep in Red America with
Heroes of the Four
th Turning
“Will Arbery’s
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
is so frighteningly well written, it’s hard to write about.”
theater review
10/6/2019
Theater Review:
Slave Play
Nearly Demands a Conversation. So We Had One.
As Jeremy O. Harris’s play transfers to Broadway.
theater review
10/2/2019
Theater Review:
Freestyle Love Supreme
May Not Be Theater, But It’s a Blast
A loose, fun hip-hop-comedy-improv night with Lin-Manuel and friends.
theater review
10/1/2019
Theater Review: The Great-Man Theory of
The Great Society
The sequel to
All the Way
goes waist-deep into the big muddy, and then some.
theater review
9/26/2019
Theater Review: At the Armory, a Mesmerizingly Japanese
Antigone
Satoshi Miyagi strips away the usual chest-beating from Sophocles’ ancient play.
theater review
9/25/2019
Theater Review:
Mothers,
Where the Apocalypse Feels Familiar
Anna Moench’s play does racial strife with a twist.
theater review
9/24/2019
Theater Review: Slight Drama and Great Performances in
The Height of the Storm
Eileen Atkins: whoa.
theater review
9/24/2019
Theater Review: The Moral Downshift of
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
A troubling play with an even more troubling message.
theater review
9/23/2019
Reviews: Unmagical Realism in
Runboyrun,
In Old Age,
and
Sunday
Three new plays that stay in familiar rooms.
theater review
9/16/2019
Theater Review:
Wives,
in Four Exuberant Feminist Conversations
Imagined talk between queens and mistresses, Martha Gellhorn and Mary Hemingway, and more.
fall preview 2019
9/6/2019
Ivo van Hove on Bringing
West Side Story
to Broadway
“It’s an amazing story about contemporary life, about young people who get stuck in a cycle of violence.”
fall preview 2019
9/6/2019
The Best and Biggest Theater Performances to See This Fall
The Inheritance
,
Jagged Little Pill
,
Freestyle Love Supreme
, and more.
theater review
9/5/2019
Theater Review: A Tight New
Betrayal
Tom Hiddleston stars [long pause] in the Pinter revival.
theater review
9/3/2019
Theater Review: The Strengths and Weaknesses of a Free Public
Hercules
The Disney movie musical is onstage for a one-week run in the park.
theater review
8/15/2019
Theater Review: The Unreal Land of
Make Believe
Bess Wohl’s play about childhood and its ripple effects.
theater review
8/6/2019
Theater Review: A
Coriolanus
Amid the Wreckage
After the apocalypse in Central Park.
theater review
7/25/2019
Theater Review:
Moulin Rouge!
Is Broadway’s Biggest Karaoke Night
“It commits single-mindedly to stuffing in as many additional hit tracks as possible.”
theater review
7/18/2019
Theater Review: Halley Feiffer’s
Moscow Moscow
Is, Like, LOL, Whatevs, Chekhov
Halley Feiffer’s reinterpretation of Three Sisters in modern-day
theater review
7/16/2019
Theater Review:
The Rolling Stone
Goes for Big Feelings Over Rigor
Intensity of emotion can’t quite mask the weaknesses.
theater reviews
6/27/2019
In the Green
and
We’re Only Alive…
Are Two More Bursts of Musical-Theater Energy
Two more from this summer’s group of invigorating new musicals.
theater review
6/17/2019
Theater Review: The Influence of Anxiety in
A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson’s new musical is inspired, in part, by the experience of sharing the name of a very famous person.
theater review
6/13/2019
Theater Review:
The Secret Life of Bees
Becomes Its Platonic Self
Sue Monk Kidd’s novel becomes a musical, beautifully.
theater review
6/11/2019
Theater Review: In the Park, the Warring Wits of
Much Ado About
Nothing
Shakespeare in the Park’s latest production.
theater reviews
6/4/2019
Theater Reviews: Limited Young Lives in
Nomad Motel
and an Adapted
Little Women
A pair of plays (one all new, one adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s novel) about young people finding their way in the world.
theater review
5/30/2019
Theater: Imperfection and Sincerity in
Frankie & Johnny
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon bring emotional intelligence and hopeful silliness to a far-from-perfect play.
theater review
5/29/2019
Theater Review: The Well-Scrubbed Drama of
Something Clean
The evening’s strength lies in the interplay between Kathryn Erbe and Christopher Livingston.
theater review
5/21/2019
Theater Review:
Continuity,
Where Little Hollywood Crises Face Big Global Ones
Diva behavior and props that shatter, on the set of a film about climate change.
theater review
5/20/2019
Theater:
Octet,
by Dave Malloy, Takes Flight on 8-Bit Wings
The
Great Comet
writer returns.
theater review
5/19/2019
Theater Review:
Mac Beth
Has a Gap at Its Center
Reinterpreted Shakespeare that doesn’t quite connect.
theater review
5/16/2019
Theater Review:
Happy Talk
Is a Satire Full of Empty Calories
Jesse Eisenberg’s play is a maudlin mess until it turns into a horrific one.
theater review
5/13/2019
Theater Review: Blood Without Guts in
Curse of the Starving Class
The play goes all out; this production pulls it back.
theater review
5/9/2019
Theater Review:
BLKS
Would Be Better in 23-Minute Episodes
It’s part of a trend: plays that try to do the things that make TV great, instead of the things that make theater great.
theater review
5/6/2019
Theater Review:
Passage,
a Reimagination of E.M. Forster, Goes There
Finding the despair beneath
A Passage to India
.
theater review
4/28/2019
Theater Review: The Volcano at the Center of
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
Cillian Murphy is afire for nearly 90 minutes.
theater review
4/25/2019
Theater Review:
Beetlejuice
Is Best When It’s at Its Most Antic
Alex Brightman has what it takes to fill this high-energy emcee’s role.
theater review
4/24/2019
Theater Review: In
Ink,
What’s Black and White and Rupert All Over
The making of a tabloid mogul.
theater review
4/24/2019
Theater Review: Can
Tootsie
Work When It’s Not 1982?
Bubbly, clever lyrics can’t save a fundamentally flawed project.
theater review
4/22/2019
Theater Review: An Affair Gone Toxic in
The Pain of My Belligerence
Halley Feiffer wrote and stars in a play about a bad date that, over the years, gets worse and worse.
theater review
4/22/2019
Theater Review: All About the Men in
All My Sons
Annette Bening squeezes every bit of power out of a too-slight part.
theater review
4/21/2019
Theater Review: Shakespeare, Riffed On Relentlessly, in
Gary
With Nathan Lane as the titular clown.
theater review
4/18/2019
Theater Review: A Transitory Journey to the Recent Past in
Hillary and Clinton
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the couple we all think we know.
theater review
4/17/2019
Theater Review: The Songwriting and Storytelling Tours de Force of
Hadestown
Ancient myths, made absolutely fresh.
theater reviews
4/16/2019
Theater Review: Men Behaving Bigly, in
Burn This
and
Socrates
Adam Driver looks giant up there onstage.
theater review
4/15/2019
Theater Review: Counting One’s Way Through
17 Border Crossings
Visual ingenuity but the sketchlike structure sags.
theater review
4/13/2019
Theater Review: The Dizzying Whirl of a Messy Texas Family in
Plano
“If you live in this world, time flies when you’re having the opposite of fun.”
theater review
4/8/2019
Theater Review: Focus-Group Friction in
Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
Without vague distancing language like “problematic.”
theater review
4/7/2019
The Brightness (and Badonkadonk) Amid the Menace: Re-Reviewing
Oklahoma!
This groundbreakingly dark production also contains a lot of joy, not to mention sex appeal.
theater review
4/4/2019
Theater Review: Once More Into the Storm With
King Lear
With Glenda Jackson as the king.
theater review
4/3/2019
Theater Review: John Doyle Strips
The Cradle Will Rock
Down to the Bare Wood
John Doyle applies his tool kit to the 1937 agitprop play.
theater review
4/2/2019
Theater Review: The Loopy, Barbed Office Satire of
Do You Feel Anger?
An empathy expert comes to a collections firm.
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