Latest Review Roundups
Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens Pre-Broadway Run in Chicago
May 20, 2024 Read the reviews for the pre-Broadway World Premiere of Death Becomes Her, now playing in Chicago.
Review Roundup: Laura Winters' ALL OF ME at the New Group
May 15, 2024 The New Group is now presenting All of Me, by Laura Winters. Check out what the critics are saying about the new play!
Review Roundup: HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES Opens At New York Theatre Workshop
May 14, 2024 New York Theatre Workshop and Tectonic Theater Project present Here There Are Blueberries, co-written by NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony & Emmy award nominee Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project) & Emmy Award nominee Amanda Gronich (The Laramie Project) and conceived & directed by Moisés Kaufman. Read reviews!
Review Roundup: The Bengsons' THE KEEP GOING SONGS Opens at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3
May 03, 2024 Read the reviews for The Keep Going Songs at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3. Learn more about the show.
Review Roundup: STAFF MEAL Opens at Playwrights Horizons
April 29, 2024 Read the reviews for Staff Meal at Plawyrights Horizons.
Review Roundup: ILLINOISE Arrives on Broadway
April 26, 2024 The Broadway critics are weighing in for the final time of the 2023/24 season! Illinoise is officially open on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, making it eligible for 2024 Tony Awards consideration. Check out what the critics are saying! REGIONAL REVIEWS
Review: CLYDE'S at Ground Floor Theatre
Austin: Joni Lorraine on May 20, 2024 These formerly incarcerated individuals working at an insignificant truck stop sandwich shop, grapple with their pasts and seek to rebuild their lives. Their evolution, and the work of the actors embodying them, invites us to expand our understanding of the potential for personal growth and appreciation for what some might see as “the other.” We are resilient. We are courageous. We are complex and unique. And we are all worthy of freedom. As much as I fear Clyde would stifle my “five-star-would-recommend” review, I can’t stop myself. Go see this show. It’s got all the perfect ingredients.
Review: Betty Buckley Enchants at Joe's Pub
Cabaret: Nathan Johnson on May 20, 2024 From the first notes of 'It's a Lovely Day Today,' Betty Buckley's iconic voice resonated through the intimate venue. It was the perfect start to an evening that blended new songs and beloved classics. It truly was a collage of perfection. Buckley is unparalleled when it comes to song interpretation. I’d go as far to say she is the master’s master.
Review: TIMBUKTU! at The Black Rep
St. Louis: Steve Callahan on May 20, 2024 Packed with Borodin's music, and African rhythm and dance, romance, and humor that smacks of vaukdeville, this strange package has many delights.
Review: 4000 MILES at Berkshire Theatre Group
Boston: Marc Savitt on May 20, 2024 The production is well paced, charming, often funny, and yet another example of the fine, high quality theatre Berkshire audiences are fortunate to have available on a consistent basis.
Review: MOON OVER BUFFALO at Candlelight Music Theatre
Delaware: Greer Firestone on May 20, 2024 Candlelight’s MOON OVER BUFFALO is an uproariously funny comedy by Tony Award winning playwright Ken Ludwig. Last year they mounted his LEND ME A TENOR which was both parts as hilarious and charming. Ludwig’s plays have starred Carol Burnett, Alec Baldwin and Tony Shaloub, to name a few.nk of MOON OVER BUFFALO at Candlelight Music Theatre?
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! is a Thrilling Spectacle with So-So Songs
Milwaukee, WI: Kelsey Lawler on May 20, 2024 What did our critic think of MOULIN ROUGE! at National Tour At Marcus Center? Are you a millennial who listened to “Elephant Love Medley” on repeat? Then this perspective is for you. But quickly, for those who need some background: Moulin Rouge! is the tragic love story of a poor writer, Christian, and the Moulin Rouge’s star burlesque performer, Satine.
Review: BRIGHT STAR at Red Curtain Theatre
Arkansas: Theresa Bertram on May 20, 2024 What did our critic think of BRIGHT STAR at Red Curtain Theatre? Intimate size theatres are my newest favorite way to watch shows, so when I heard that Red Curtain Theatre, 913 W Oak Street, in Conway, was bringing BRIGHT STAR to their newly remodeled performance area May 3-5 and May 10-12, I was intrigued.
Feature: BACK TO THE FUTURE 4!? [DOC. VS. BIFF] OSAKA COMIC CON 2024 CELEBRITY STAGE
Japan: Ayaka Ozaki on May 20, 2024 Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson and other celebrities visited Japan for Osaka Comic Con 2024 held from May 3rd for three days. 'Osaka Comic Con' is a pop culture festival that provides opportunities for communication with celebrities and exhibits props used in movies. Here, we bring you the highlights of the talk show featuring these two who co-starred in the legendary movie series, 'Back to the Future' (hereafter BTTF) during the event.
Review: PATTI LUPONE: A LIFE IN NOTES at Kennedy Center
Washington, DC: David Friscic on May 20, 2024 The triple -threat talent of the charismatic performer Patti LuPone was on full display at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Friday evening---and, oh! What a night it was! A capacity crowd of what was obviously a devoted (and almost fanatical fan base) tuned out to see a glorious two hours of songs ---which were sung with sheer show -biz brio by the resonant mezzo-soprano of Ms. LuPone.
Review: LA REVOLUTION FRANÇAISE at Le 13e Art
France: Patrick Honoré on May 20, 2024 The first revival of the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Shönberg's first musical, the duo who brought us Les Misérables.
Review: LOVE IS NEVER GONE Spotlights Marvin Hamlisch at Green Room 42
Cabaret: Rob Lester on May 20, 2024 MARVIN HAMLISCH: LOVE IS NEVER GONE recalls the ups and downs and talents of the late man of music in advance of his 80th birthday in June. The much-admired composer and conductor's life story gets the musical biography jukebox treatment. The May 10th show shone a warm spotlight on Hamlisch, best known for writing the music to A CHORUS LINE.
Review: THE CENCI FAMILY at The Tank
Off-Broadway: Peter Danish on May 20, 2024 What did our critic think: This is cutting edge theater of the highest order. Dangerous and daring, it’s more than simply Avant Guard, it is timeless and contemporary at the same time – the kind of theater that makes you sit up on the edge of your seat and pay attention.
Review: DEATH BECOMES HER at Cadillac Palace
Chicago: Misha Davenport on May 20, 2024 Move over Witches of Oz. There’s a new pair of Broadway-Bound divas looking to stage a wicked fight for supremacy eight shows a week. And you better best believe the stage becomes her, er, them.
Review: THE COLOUR OF DINOSAURS, Polka Theatre
UK / West End: Kat Mokrynski on May 20, 2024 The Colour of Dinosaurs, devised and performed by Dom Coyote, Lloyd Coleman, Jakob Vinther, Victoria Oruwari, Harry Miller and Roxana Vilk, has arrived at the Polka Theatre. The show explores how a palaeontologist, Dr. Jakob Vinther, used melanin to discover what the colours of dinosaurs actually were.
Review: PARTY GAMES!, Theatre Royal Windsor
UK Regional: Kat Mokrynski on May 20, 2024 Written by Michael McManus and directed by Joanna Read, Party Games! is a “comedy-drama” that gives audience members an inside look into the political world of the United Kingdom through the “One Nation” party, which has been created in opposition to the other existing parties.
Review: DAVE HILL: CAVEMAN IN A SPACESHIP, Soho Theatre
UK / West End: Kat Mokrynski on May 20, 2024 Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship begins with Hill bursting through the door of Soho Theatre Upstairs on a bicycle, circling around the stage as music blasts and the audience cheers. A smoke machine goes off, covering the stage in fog, as another machine blows out snow-like confetti, with Hill going straight into its line of fire.
Review: Tony Award Winner Matt Doyle Makes Segerstrom Center Cabaret Debut
Los Angeles: Michael Quintos on May 20, 2024 Matt Doyle—the 2022 Tony Award winner for his gender-bent role of Jaime in the Broadway revival of COMPANY—made his Segerstrom Center for the Arts Cabaret Series debut over a three-night engagement that began on May 2, 2024 with an incredible set that showcased his amazing vocal talents and his charming, witty ability for personal storytelling.
Review: HEDDA GABLER at Coal Mine Theatre
Toronto: Ilana Lucas on May 19, 2024 Director Moya O’Connell’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s play, in a new version by Liisa Repo-Martel, emphasizes the power of triangles, relationship groupings that seem stable but which are easily unbalanced by such an act of bisection. With a dynamite cast, an accessible adaptation, and the claustrophobic feeling of being trapped in Hedda’s living room, this HEDDA GABLER is as fiery as its heroine’s desire to burn down everything around her.
Review: Actors' Shakespeare Project breathes new life into ROMEO AND JULIET
Boston: R. Scott Reedy on May 19, 2024 What did our critic think of ROMEO AND JULIET at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?
Review: ALONZO KING LINES BALLET: DEEP RIVER at Kennedy Center
Washington, DC: David Friscic on May 19, 2024 The visionary eye of Choreographer Alonzo King creates such complex choreographic movement from his gifted ensemble of twelve contemporary ballet dancers, that you will miss a tantalizing moment if you avert your eyes for even a nano-second. Billed as the Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Deep River ---the audience at the Kennedy Center was treated not only to the choreographic ebb and flow of the Deep River contemporary ballet work but was also treated to no less than twelve other contemporary ballet dance works that preceded this primary work (except for one achingly languorous, reflective, and sensual work entitled Epilogue Pas which was a stunning pas de deux that was the final work of the evening –danced beautifully by Adji Cissoko and Shuaib (Elhassan). |
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