Knives out. In the opening moment of Broadway’s Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, a soldier is hoisted heavenward by his feet. He dangles there briefly before he’s stabbed and bleeds out... Read more
Broadway Reviews
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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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Summer, or at least a feel of summer stock, comes early with the arrival of the new but tired Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night starring Billy Crystal. Based on a 1992 big-screen box-office dud... Read more -
There’s a moment in the new Broadway play POTUS that made me cackle so loud, I surprised myself. It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it moment. It occurs as the revolving set for POTUS is turning to a new... Read more -
“WOW!” I thought to myself as my body leapt to its feet on its own volition to applaud A Strange Loop. “This must be how people who saw the first performances of Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Company, Rent,... Read more -
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... Read more -
Theatregoers seeking thrills at the revival of Funny Girl aren’t kept waiting. The musical about the real-life comedian Fanny Brice, back on Broadway for the first time since its 1964 premiere,... Read more -
“If they’ve got to go, they’ve got to go by the quickest, the most dignified, and the least painful way of going as possible,” says Harry (David Threlfall), the former hangman determined to make the... Read more -
Ntozake Shange’s powerful paean to Black women, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, returns to Broadway in a bold revival that burns intensely, though with little... Read more -
How does one stage a traumatizing play that focuses on grooming, pedophilia, misogyny, and incest? In the case of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, which just... Read more -
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... Read more