The Picture of Dorian Gray Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for her role as Shiv in Succession, Sarah Snook makes her debut exploding out of the Broadway gate with her shattering, one-woman, whirlwind performance of Dorian Gray. Donning 26 roles, she gives twenty-six performances, all of them profoundly realized …
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Theater Review (Broadway): In ‘Operation Mincemeat’ History Meets Hilarity
'Operation Mincemeat' is a rollicking yet profoundly ironic and nuanced musical about a WWII British espionage scheme that duped Hitler.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Trojans,’ a New SynthWave Musical by Leegrid Stevens
This high-school-football retelling of 'The Iliad' is a voluminous, rainbow-hued spectacle of glory days and myth, staged and played with pomp and passion.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Ghosts,’ Starring Lily Rabe, Billy Crudup
Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' starring Lily Rabe and Billy Crudup, with Mark O'Rowe's updated script and Jack O'Brien's steely direction is superb.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Liberation’
'Liberation' questions and explores the strides of feminism in this time when the movement looks as if it has failed.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class,’ Starring Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart
Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard’s popular Curse of the Starving Class in a New Group revival thematically resonates with hunger, spiritually, psychically, emotionally. First appearing at the Public Theater, the play won an Obie for Best New American Play during the 1976-1977 season. Since then, Shepard’s sardonic comedy …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘no no no please no god no, nevermind i’m fine’ – Sarina Freda’s Epic Bad Acid Trip
We move with Freda from fascination to terror as she eventually confronts that abyss of ego-death so well-known to those who've tried psychedelic drugs.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Measure for Measure’ by William Shakespeare, from the Eno River Players
The touch of this production feels just right – deep enough, with just enough shiny surface atop undercurrents of evil and insanity.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Redwood’ Starring Idina Menzel
At the heart of the musical 'Redwood' starring Idina Menzel is a mother's inconsolable grief at the loss of her son.
Read More »Theater Review: (Broadway) ‘English’
Playwright Sanaz Toossi covers a great deal of ground in her touching play, 'English.'
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