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Displaying all articles tagged:
Stage Dive
stage dive
Nov. 3, 2013
Theater Review:
After Midnight
Is Worth Staying Up For
“Opulent yet tasteful, wild but disciplined, kinetic and sexy but smart, smart, smart.”
By
Jesse Green
Nov. 2, 2013
Theater Review:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A reminder of why she was a MacArthur genius.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 29, 2013
Theater Review:
Good Person of Szechwan
Lecture-free Brecht.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 27, 2013
Theater Review: With Weisz and Craig,
Betrayal
Goes Back on Broadway
Backwards runs drama until reels the mind.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 24, 2013
Theater Review:
The Snow Geese
Is Chekhov à la Cuisinart
Even the gun is present.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 23, 2013
Theater Review:
The Landing
Gives Us Kander After Ebb
Kander after Ebb.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 22, 2013
Theater Review: The Miraculous
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel’s comic-strip memoir, onstage.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 21, 2013
Theater Review:
A Time to Kill
“Our hero enters, eating grits.”
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Oct. 17, 2013
Theater Review: The Old-Fashioned Emotional Play of
The Winslow Boy
“There is great pleasure in being handled with authority by a playwright who knows what he’s doing.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Oct. 11, 2013
Theater Review: The All-Female
Julius Caesar
Ferocious,
very
controlled chaos.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Oct. 10, 2013
Theater Review:
A Night With Janis Joplin
Is a Cheap Thrill
There are pearly performances of great songs. It’s a shame about the rest of the show.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Oct. 6, 2013
Theater Review: Broadway’s
Big Fish
A great star, singing deadly music and lyrics.
By
Scott Brown
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.”
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Sept. 26, 2013
Theater Reviews:
The Glass Menagerie
and
Arguendo
Repression times two.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Sept. 19, 2013
Theater Reviews:
Romeo and Juliet
and
Women or Nothing
Plus Ethan Coen’s
Women or Nothing.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Sept. 17, 2013
Apocalypse? D’oh! Scott Brown Reviews
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play
Exxxxcellent?
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Sept. 13, 2013
The Stage Dive Weekend Review
A 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.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Sept. 8, 2013
Theater Review: A Deep Dive Into Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town Plays
The results are mixed, and appropriately dyspeptic.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Aug. 15, 2013
Friday the Rabbi Sang Out:
Soul Doctor
on Broadway
Shlomo, we hardly knew ye.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
Aug. 12, 2013
Theater Review: A Singing, Summery
Love’s Labour’s Lost
On musicalizing an odd Shakespearean comedy.
By
Jesse Green
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.”
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
July 23, 2013
The Designated Mourner
Review: Epitaph for the Intellectual
The revival of Wallace Shawn’s work isn’t nice or easy.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
July 20, 2013
The Stage Dive Weekend Review
Check ‘em out.
By
Scott Brown
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.”
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
July 12, 2013
Theater Review: Pop Goes the Buddha in
Monkey: Journey to the West
There are about 1,000 reasons to see director Chen Shi-Zheng’s gaudy, goofy flagship popera opening this year’s Lincoln Center Festival.
By
Scott Brown
theater review
July 3, 2013
Theater Reviews:
Buyer and Cellar
and
Choir Boy
P
lus Tarell Alvin McCraney’s
Choir Boy.
By
Scott Brown
theater review
June 28, 2013
Weekend Theater: Tennessee Williams, David Morse
Amanda Plummer makes existing look so
hard
in the Tennessee Williams revival.
By
Scott Brown
theater review
June 21, 2013
Stage Dive Weekend Review:
Kid Like Jake
, More
Carla Gugino as a Manhattan helicopter mom. Yes, please.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
June 18, 2013
Theater Review: An Economically Robust
Comedy of Errors
What’s today’s dollar-ducat exchange rate?
By
Scott Brown
June 14, 2013
The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Neil LaBute and More
Neil LaBute is back — and strikes back, too.
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
June 9, 2013
Vulture’s Theater Critics Live-Blog the Tonys
Join Scott Brown and Jesse Green as they give their moment-by-moment take on theater’s biggest night.
By
Scott Brown
and
Jesse Green
stage dive
June 7, 2013
Our Critics on the Tonys’ Eight Most Telling Races
Scott Brown and Jesse Green study the big categories, the bigger relevance of a potential Tom Hanks win, and
Kinky Boots
vs.
Matilda
.
By
Scott Brown
and
Jesse Green
stage dive
June 2, 2013
Theater Review:
Far From Heaven,
and From Excellence
“The repression just doesn’t press.”
By
Scott Brown
stage dive
May 31, 2013
Theater Review: A Shouty
Caucasian Chalk Circle
at Classic Stage
“It’s exhausting. Which is not to say it’s unworthwhile.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 20, 2013
Theater Review:
The Master Builder
, on Very Shaky New Pilings
“When
The Master Builder
becomes an episode of
Gilly
, you know something’s wrong.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 16, 2013
Theater Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Ironic Detachment of 2012
A musical based on a section of
War and Peace
.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 12, 2013
A Family for All Occasions
Is a Play of One Dimension
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 10, 2013
Theater Review: Encores!’s
On Your Toes
It’s a weak production, too. And yet …
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 8, 2013
Theater Review: Chasing Chekhov With
Nikolai and the Others
“Nelson’s opening gambit — an appetizer of red herring — pays off spectacularly.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
May 2, 2013
Theater Review: A Trampling
Bull
With Bared Teeth
“It’s just cruel for the easy fun of it.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 25, 2013
Theater Review: Big Top
Pippin
They added a circus!
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 24, 2013
Theater Review: The Not Quite Divine Miss Mengers, in
I’ll Eat You Last
“Do we really care how hard it is to make a living as a Sherpa on the slopes of power?”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 23, 2013
Theater Review:
The Trip to Bountiful,
Without Doilies
“The most brutal show in town right now.”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 22, 2013
Theater Review: The Quite Contrary
Testament of Mary
Conceived without sin (but with tragedy).
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 21, 2013
Theater Review: It Were Done Quickly, This
Macbeth
It’s cut to barely 100 minutes.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 18, 2013
Theater Reviews:
Orphans
and
Jekyll & Hyde
“The question that lingers after the swift little dream of
Orphans
passes is: What just happened? What was that about?”
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 17, 2013
Theater Review: The Heartbreak of
The Assembled Parties
It … may hit you like a punch to the heart.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 16, 2013
Theater Review: Odets’s
The Big Knife
Has No Sting
A hard play to defend.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 15, 2013
Theater Review:
The Nance
Makes Ideal Use of Nathan Lane
Douglas Carter Beane has written Nathan Lane his best new role in years.
By
Jesse Green
stage dive
Apr. 14, 2013
Theater Review:
Motown: The Musical
The worst jukebox (with the best tunes) I’ve ever encountered.
By
Jesse Green
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