Who said critics don't matter anymore? Adam Rapp's The Sound Inside got a rave review from Jesse Green in the New York Times when it premiered at Berkshire's powerhouse Williamstown Theatre Festival ... Read more
Broadway Reviews
The New York Theatre Guide employs a small army of talented critics, who cover a wide range of theatrical productions. So if you are unsure about which Broadway show you would like to treat yourself, your loved one or even the whole family to, then why not have a read of our humble opinions?
Although we understand that everybody has different tastes in theater, we are sure that you might find our comprehensive Broadway Reviews section helpful, or visit the reviews archive for closed shows.
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Percy Jackson has a problem – well, a few, actually: he doesn’t ‘fit in’; his home life is a mess; and he doesn’t know who his father is. Daunting challenges to say the least. Too young to make the... Read more -
Tracy Letts is a magician, or better yet a griot, “a repository of oral tradition”. The stories he tells have the feeling of being told before. They seem like stories we have already heard – which... Read more -
How far back do our memories go? What’s the first thing you remember as a child? How old were you? That memory is part of our current self and what we consciously know. Is there something deeper... Read more -
Improvisational theatre and comedy are long-standing New York traditions. I’ve always held in high esteem artists who create performance sequences, let alone entire shows, with little prepped content... Read more -
Like Lyndon B. Johnson with his great society programs, playwright Robert Schenkkan tries to do too much. Focused on building a domestic agenda — Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and Food Stamps —... Read more -
The Height of the Storm, currently celebrating its American premiere at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, courtesy of Manhattan Theatre Club, offers no flying broomsticks, no animatronic beasts — no... Read more -
I want you to go see Derren Brown: Secret by Andy Nyman, Derren Brown and Andrew O’Connor, directed by O’Connor and Nyman and now playing at Broadway’s Cort Theatre, as soon as possible so that we... Read more -
Betrayal is a play of extreme intimacy. I think it is intended to be almost unbearable. The story of a marriage and a friendship disintegrating is based on Harold Pinter’s own affair with Joan... Read more -
In 2002 Baz Luhrmann, the idiosyncratic Australian film and theatre director, brought his stunning 1990 Opera Australia production of Puccini's La Bohème from Sydney Opera House to Broadway, a tale... Read more