Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht on Broadway
As temperatures warm up, and our temperaments improve, there is something so soothing about spending an afternoon on a sun-bathed, screened-in porch with two fabulous actresses. And that is what … Read More
Tag: theater reviews
Sean Hayes stars in off-key play
That Sean Hayes transforms in the new play “Good Night, Oscar,” there is no doubt. Whether the end result is a human being or a bag of tricks depends on … Read More
Brilliant Jodie Comer is a must-see
At the play “Prima Facie,” which opened Sunday night on Broadway, the audience is hit by two wildly different sensations. First, as we become fully absorbed by the harrowing story … Read More
‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ review: Neverland nincompoops get laughs
I do believe in f – – kups! I do! I do! And that’s what “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” the happily hyperactive comedy that opened Wednesday night on Broadway, provides: … Read More
BBQ ‘Hamlet’ needs more meat
Is Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” the best vehicle for modern questions about race, masculinity and LGBT issues? — that is the question. Theater review Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes with … Read More
‘Shucked’ review: Broadway’s best new musical
Color me “Shucked” — sorry, shocked. For I have finally seen the new musical that popped open Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre. The one that has been inundating straphangers … Read More
Eye-popping effects make a splash on Broadway
A pair of extraordinary elements make the new spectacle show “Life of Pi” seaworthy: stunning projections, and a better-than-necessary lead performance from the sensational Hiran Abeysekera. Theater review 2 hours … Read More
Josh Groban a gentle demon on Broadway
Our eyes don’t normally well up with tears during “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Stephen Sondheim’s horror-musical in which throats are gruesomely slashed and cannibalism is positively … Read More
‘Bad Cinderella’ Broadway review: A wacko dumpster fire
What the ’ella? For a musical with the drunken confidence to slap the word “Bad” in front of a classic title, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Bad Cinderella,” which opened Thursday night … Read More
Flawed musical gets heartfelt revival
The greatest asset of the Broadway revival of “Parade,” Jason Robert Brown’s sorrowful if flawed musical about the 1915 anti-Semitic lynching of Leo Frank, is youth. Playing husband and wife … Read More
