In The Minutes, a backloaded button-pusher about power, history, and self-preservation, playwright Tracy Letts lifts the curtain on an ordinary closed town council meeting for a group portrait of...
New York Theatre Reviews Archive
Browse through our New York Theatre Guide Reviews Archive, where our thoughts on both past Broadway and off-Broadway shows alike have now been immortalized.
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When Hugh Jackman’s Harold Hill whispers into the impressionable ears of River City whippersnappers, their minds and feet alight. The Music Man, which arrives on Broadway following a two-year delay,... -
Grown kids coming to terms with failed relationships with their parents has always been fertile dramatic territory. As it covers this time-worn terrain, The Nosebleed, a compact and peculiar work... -
If alien life-forms ever come to Earth and require a human representative, take them immediately to Cecily Strong. She’s already had the practice, after all, playing Trudy, who is explaining Earth to... -
The dinosaur earned its entrance applause. Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth, a fantastical tragicomedy about the end of the world, calls for a dinosaur and a woolly mammoth. Typical... -
Holiday musicals are often cheery but don’t quite leave an imprint. So when one does, it sticks like a wet candy cane. The Streets of New York, a musical revival adapted from Dion Boucicault’s 1857... -
During a heated exchange in Part 2 of Mona Mansour's The Vagrant Trilogy, the Palestinian scholar Adham, while living in London, says of his brother stuck in the Middle East, "He only knows how to be... -
There has been much drama around The Visitor, the new Tom Kitt, Brian Yorkey, and Kwame Kwei-Armah musical. The show’s opening last year was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then when it was... -
I’ve experienced my share of Halloween-themed theatre (including ones where I was blindfolded). But what I’ve rarely experienced was a room where audience members screamed in fright from all... -
Shakespeare once wrote, “What a piece of work is a man!” In that famous monologue from Hamlet, Shakespeare was writing about, in part, the varied beauty and contradictions within humanity. Granted,...