Scott Brown Author Archive

behind the scenes Mar. 19, 2019

When a Theater Reviewer Becomes the One Being ReviewedI was this magazine’s theater critic. Now I’ve co-written Broadway’s Beetlejuice: The Musical. Those jobs have one big thing in common.

June 26, 2014

Theater Review: Mike Daisey’s Yes This ManDaisey opens wide to criticism.

stage dive Oct. 21, 2013

Theater Review: A Time to Kill“Our hero enters, eating grits.”

theater Oct. 13, 2013

Girl With Curious Hair: Tracee Chimo on Her Breakout Role in Bad JewsShe has a stage presence almost as big as her character’s do.

stage dive Oct. 11, 2013

Theater Review: The All-Female Julius CaesarFerocious, very controlled chaos.

stage dive Oct. 10, 2013

Theater Review: A Night With Janis Joplin Is a Cheap ThrillThere are pearly performances of great songs. It’s a shame about the rest of the show.

stage dive Oct. 6, 2013

Theater Review: Broadway’s Big FishA great star, singing deadly music and lyrics.

stage dive Oct. 3, 2013

Theater Review: Very Good Bad Jews“Tracee Chimo’s Daphna seems to fill every corner of the room at once.”

theater review Oct. 2, 2013

Theater Review: The Anti-Reinvention of A Streetcar Named DesireThe revival — with Joe Manganiello as Stanley — is canonical, but not typical.

stage dive Sept. 26, 2013

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie and ArguendoRepression times two.

stage dive Sept. 19, 2013

Theater Reviews: Romeo and Juliet and Women or NothingPlus Ethan Coen’s Women or Nothing.

stage dive Sept. 17, 2013

Apocalypse? D’oh! Scott Brown Reviews Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric PlayExxxxcellent?

stage dive Sept. 13, 2013

The Stage Dive Weekend ReviewA play that’s half-Chekov and half-Dallas, another that depicts Muhammad Ali meeting Stepin Fetchit, and a musical that’s Icecapades for nerds. Good times.

theater review Sept. 12, 2013

Review: Mike Daisey’s All the Faces of the MoonDaisey’s latest is a monthlong epic about fiction, fantasy, magic, and, yes. lying.

stage dive Sept. 8, 2013

Theater Review: A Deep Dive Into Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town PlaysThe results are mixed, and appropriately dyspeptic.

fall preview 2013 Aug. 25, 2013

What Our Critics Are Anticipating This FallWhat they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.

stage dive Aug. 15, 2013

Friday the Rabbi Sang Out: Soul Doctor on BroadwayShlomo, we hardly knew ye.

stage dive Aug. 8, 2013

Theater Review: A First Date That Feels Like You’ve Been on It Before“Nerd Meets Pixie-grrl, all over again.”

movies Aug. 4, 2013

Damon Lindelof on Blockbuster Screenwriting“We live in a commercial world, where you’ve gotta come up with ‘trailer moments.’”

stage dive July 23, 2013

The Designated Mourner Review: Epitaph for the IntellectualThe revival of Wallace Shawn’s work isn’t nice or easy.

stage dive July 20, 2013

The Stage Dive Weekend ReviewCheck ‘em out.

stage dive July 12, 2013

Theater Review: John Malkovich’s Underappreciated Liaisons“I saw empty seats at my performance last night! This must not be.”

stage dive July 12, 2013

Theater Review: Pop Goes the Buddha in Monkey: Journey to the WestThere are about 1,000 reasons to see director Chen Shi-Zheng’s gaudy, goofy flagship popera opening this year’s Lincoln Center Festival.

theater review July 3, 2013

Theater Reviews: Buyer and Cellar and Choir BoyPlus Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy.

theater review June 28, 2013

Weekend Theater: Tennessee Williams, David MorseAmanda Plummer makes existing look so hard in the Tennessee Williams revival.

inside theater June 28, 2013

The Civilians’ Steve Cosson Likes His Theater DeadNew York’s premier investigative theater company looks into death this weekend.

theater review June 21, 2013

Stage Dive Weekend Review: Kid Like Jake, MoreCarla Gugino as a Manhattan helicopter mom. Yes, please.

stage dive June 18, 2013

Theater Review: An Economically Robust Comedy of ErrorsWhat’s today’s dollar-ducat exchange rate?

June 14, 2013

The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Neil LaBute and More Neil LaBute is back — and strikes back, too.

stage dive June 9, 2013

Vulture’s Theater Critics Live-Blog the TonysJoin Scott Brown and Jesse Green as they give their moment-by-moment take on theater’s biggest night.

stage dive June 7, 2013

Our Critics on the Tonys’ Eight Most Telling RacesScott Brown and Jesse Green study the big categories, the bigger relevance of a potential Tom Hanks win, and Kinky Boots vs. Matilda.

stage dive June 2, 2013

Theater Review: Far From Heaven, and From Excellence“The repression just doesn’t press.”

stage dive Mar. 3, 2013

Theater Review: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CinderellaThe 1957 made-for-TV musical arrives on Broadway.

stage dive Mar. 1, 2013

Theater Review: Sell Your Soul to See The Wild Bride. It’s Worth It.You’ve got less than three weeks to catch the latest splashy, genre-braiding fantasy from visionary Emma Rice and Britain’s Kneehigh Theatre.

stage dive Feb. 28, 2013

Theater Reviews: The Revisionist and Much MorePlus The Madrid, Passion, The Dance and the Railroad, Katie Roche, and Much Ado About Nothing.

oscars 2013 Feb. 25, 2013