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Theater Review
theater review
12:01 a.m.
Stereophonic
Moves to Broadway, and Thunder Happens
It’s a love song, bittersweet and wounded and ferociously loyal, to the act of making art.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 18, 2024
Living Is Harder:
Suffs
and
Grenfell
Suffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 17, 2024
The Wiz
Rolls Back Into Town
Big high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
By
Jackson McHenry
theater review
Apr. 16, 2024
Writing Down the Bones:
Sally & Tom
A curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 15, 2024
Look, I Made a Woman:
Lempicka
The musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 14, 2024
St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s
Symphony of Rats
The Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
Not Without Ambition, But …
Macbeth (an undoing)
A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
Return of the Musical Rumble:
The Outsiders
Does the stage adaptation stay gold?
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 28, 2024
Always Gets a Replay:
The Who’s Tommy
Yes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 27, 2024
Grief Hotel,
Where You Check In to Yourself
Liza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 24, 2024
Becoming Brian Friel:
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 21, 2024
Water for Elephants
Is Best When It’s Behind the Times
Dazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 19, 2024
In
Teeth,
Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks
Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
By
Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 18, 2024
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
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