There are times when I feel that I should tag my posts "The Minority Review". After listening to the audience hooting and hollering their approval for Roundabout Theatre Company's production of True... Read more
Broadway Reviews
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Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy is a layered and muscular one-act with music, drama, comedy and a loaded title. Yes, the students of the Charles R. Drew Prep School do sing in excellent harmony and... Read more -
Network is a big show with a big cast. It arrived from London with enthusiastic notices and critical acclaim. From the get-go, director Ivo van Hove hits the audience with shock-and-awe: video noise... Read more -
Take three parts Cher, stir in equal parts Sonny Bono, Bob Mackie and Gregg Allman, set it on fire and stand back. In the chemistry class that is The Cher Show at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre, this... Read more -
At the end of the first act, and then again after the last curtain call at the Longacre Theatre, my guest and I turned to each other and blurted out: "So much fun!" Short reviews have intrinsic value... Read more -
King Kong has set a new bar on Broadway. It is a visual feast that does for stagecraft in 2018 what the movie did for filmmaking in 1933 – marks a new era of what’s possible. And it’s not all about... Read more -
At the near conclusion of this brilliant production of The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, we learn that there are two kinds of lost souls in the Universe. This... Read more -
Pretty Woman, the 1990 film that married the story of Pygmalion to the annoying trope of the 'hooker with a heart of gold,' has found its way to Broadway in a musical that aims high but falls short... Read more -
Today I’ve got magic on my mind. The Harry Potter kind. Apparently so does the rest of the world. After seeing this spectacular Harry Potter and the Cursed Child I decided to borrow a book from the... Read more -
This My Fair Lady is a winsome production. Don’t get to use that word in a sentence too often. But then you don’t see a confection of a show too often either. By now you all know the story. 1912 –... Read more