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David CoteObserver |
Jonathan Spector’s play, about vaccine politics splintering a school board, is one big Learning Moment that pretty much everyone fails.
The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
I have little appetite to spend the next four years gloomily referencing current events in my reviews, so let’s get this out of the way. It was a...
How sadly apt, to attend In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot the day after Jeff Bezos ordered The Washington Post to refrain from endorsing...
Last time I reviewed a Shakespeare play staged by the daring and gifted Sam Gold, I led with a cheeky question about bowls of soup slurped by the...
The latest revival of Sunset Boulevard —glossily stark and aggressively meta—puts several shades of lipstick on a pig. “Shades” being...
Shameful confession: It took Laura Donnelly’s coolly stunning entrance in The Hills of California to finally acquaint me with the lyrics to...
Now 42 years old, the Forbidden Broadway franchise remains Mad Magazine with jazz hands, and the latest edition, 'Merrily We Stole a Song,' features a...
Over the years audiences have seen many sides of magnetic powerhouse Kara Young. There was Troubled Teen Kara in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to...
A thought experiment: From these cherry-picked events by the city’s best opera and dance companies, choose two—one from each category—for a...
Seasons don’t have themes. Scores of shows will open this fall from Broadway to Off-Off, but no shadowy organization meets to decree a season...
You may not believe it, but theater critics actually work . It’s not all plopping into an aisle seat, yawning, and scribbling in the dark....
Received wisdom says a play on Broadway will only turn a profit with a star (or two). Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello ? Get you...
There’s a sicko living in the White House, a toxic narcissist with no boundaries and addiction issues, a sadist constantly lashing out while begging...
It’s unscientific and unverifiable, but I have a theory that a lot of shabby British playwriting is smoothed over by dazzling British acting. No,...
Samm-Art Williams, who died on May 13 as Home began previews at the Roundabout Theatre Company, lived many lives. He was a playwright, an actor...
Despite the fact they read from a script and dress the part, most TV reporters would deny an equivalence with actors. Some gig across the non/fiction...
Who isn’t playing a rock star on stage? You got Stereophonic hipsters cutting an epic LP circa 1976 while Maleah Joi Moon tickles the...
Hey, what’d you do for the pandemic? Sorry to be so 2022, but the topic’s hard to avoid regarding Dave Malloy’s Three Houses , currently...
This interview-based docu-play revolves around a mysterious photo album donated to the Holocaust Museum that showed the lives of those running...
There’s something almost quaint about The Great Gatsby ’s arrival at the end of a crowded Broadway season (11 new musicals and revivals bowed...
Over the years, I’ve consumed heaps of neat, “naturalistic” dramas with messages served on a platter. I’ve also sampled countless experimental...
It’s Chekhov 101 to say his characters inhabit separate worlds that rarely converge. All those rueful doctors, vain landowners, stoic laborers, and...
The Effect | 1hr 40mins. No intermission. | The Shed | 545 West 30th Street | 646-455-3494 Thank you for signing up! By clicking...
Corruption | 2hrs 40mins. One intermission. | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater | 150 West 65th Street | 212-239-6200 Thank you for signing up! ...
Doubt | 1hr 30mins. No intermission. | Todd Haimes Theatre | 227 West 42nd Street | 212-719-1300 Thank you for signing up! By...
Brooklyn Laundry | 1hr 20mins. No intermission. | Manhattan Theatre Club | 131 West 55 th St | 212-581-1212 Would it surprise you to learn that...
If there’s a common thread running through these picks, it’s archeology. Digging into the past to see how it illuminates our present. Whether...
Broadway’s spring forecast: Traffic Delays Ahead. Between now and end of April (cutoff time for Tony Award eligibility) a whopping 18 shows will...
The Ally | 2hrs 40mins. One intermission. | Public Theater | 440 Lafayette Street | 212-967-7555 Asaf Sternheim (Josh Radnor) may be a teacher at...
The Apiary | 1hr 15mins. No intermission. | Second Stage Theatre’s Tony Kiser Theater | 305 West 43rd Street | 212-392-1818 Science fiction may...
The Connector | 1 hr 45 mins. No intermission. | MCC Theater | 511 W 52nd Street | 646 – 506-9393 M usicals love a con artist. Harold...
The Animal Kingdom | 1hr 20mins. No intermission. | Connelly Theater Upstairs | 220 East 4th Street Theater critics and therapists have things...
Once Upon a Mattress | 2hrs 15mins. One intermission. | New York City Center | 131 West 55th Street | 212-581-1212 After suffering through Once...
Prayer for the French Republic | 3hrs 10mins. Two intermissions. | Samuel L. Friedman Theatre | 261 W. 47th Street | 212-239-6200 We want...
Appropriate | 2hrs 40mins. One intermission. | Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street | 212-239-6200 “Someone has to defend the dead,” declares...
Buena Vista Social Club | 2hrs. One intermission. | Atlantic Theater Company | 336 West 20th Street | 646-452-2220 Thirty-odd years ago you’d...
How to Dance in Ohio | 2hrs 25mins. One intermission. | Belasco Theatre | 111 W 44th St | 212-239-6200 Want to see an excellent Broadway musical...
Manahatta | 1hr 45mins. No intermission. | Public Theater | 425 Lafayette Street | 212-967-7555 Every history play has its moral. The Trojan...