This compendium of Deadlines Broadway reviews takes a look at all of them.
The Penzance Musical, but for the rest of us the delight is pretty much instantaneous.
A trifle maybe, but a charmer.Read full review.
‘Good Night, and Good Luck’, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow,’ ‘Othello,’ ‘Just In Time’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’Emilio Madrid/Marc Brenner/Julieta Cervantes/Courtesy/Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
It turns out, John Proctor really is the villain ofThe Crucible.
Hes been hiding in plain sight all along.Read full review.
On paper, it should.
Matthew Murphy
What a tale that would be.
Financially, yeah, it probably will.
But the show itself still hasnt uncomplicated itself to any revelatory degree.
Maybe some future production will find, like that recentMerrily We Roll Along, the perfect solution.
This production, opening tonight at the Hudson Theatre, comes within reach.
But not close enough.
They cross paths, or timelines, one time only, on their wedding day.
Tough to build chemistry or even rapport that way, and Jonas and Warren only occasionally do so.
Side note: Can he be Jewish, as the script calls for?
Is Jamie a narcissist or just a writer who wants to write?
No one can give you courage, Jamie sings in If I Didnt Believe In You.
I mean, ouch.
But still, honest, no?
Somewhere inThe Last Five Yearstheres a diamond waiting for its proper setting.
Snook often plays multiple characters simultaneously, acting live opposite her own video images.Read full review.
So good news:Operation Mincemeat: The Musicalis hear, and ready to serve.
(Ben Stones appealing set and costume design pull considerable weight in getting the story across.)
Das Ubermensch isMincemeats Springtime For Hitler, but with an spookily menacing and timely punchline.
And then theres Dear Bill, the showstopping solo given to Jak Malones middle-aged, all-work secretary Hester Leggatt.
Doctors, poets, housewives, pickpockets.
Until one day, there were only two types of Cubans: Those who stayed and those who left.
Here, book writer Marco Ramirez gives in to some standard and rather uninspired jukebox musical contrivance.
Among the standouts: El Carretero, Candela, Dos Gardenias and Chan Chan.
Then theres Ivans mother, ever-worshipful of Alexander, and the households various servants.
No one could accuse Chekhov of writing happy plays, andUncle Vanyamight be his saddest.
No one dies, but no one thrives either.
Good luck with that, Chekhov says, and in the meantime work.
To describe Scotts undertaking here as ambitious is an understatement, just as his accomplishment is impressive.
And it all works, for the most part.
WithVanya, Andrew Scott does it all.
Junior isnt the only disappointment to father Solomon.
Naz also identifies as asexual, which prompts no end of confusion for his parents.
That girl most definitely is not Aziza (the magnificent Kara Young).
Theyd just never understand.
Of course, meet them she does, quite innocently, with a snowstorm stranding her.
Claudines letters also spark the ire of Juniors till-now moodily silent wife Morgan.
Most of all, Jacobs-Jenkins asks, what is our purpose?
The play doesnt pretend to answer all the lofty questions it raises how could it?
Shes a match for Paul Mescals deceptively appealing, come-and-go wolf-smile creature until she isnt.
Not to worry Frecknall and her cast know exactly what theyre doing.
The Napoleonic Code, after all.
Hell get there one smile, one swagger, one bellow and one cruel outburst at a time.
(Kudos to costume designer Merle Hensel).
(Fret not, those performances, god bless em, are just a TCM away).
In the film, Stella takes the baby and refuses to hang back with the brute.
Stanley, the predator, is unwilling to let go of his quarry.
At heart, though,Redwoodis an intimate tale, emotionally generous in message if familiar in narrative.
And it really does look amazing.
How the two mothers deal with the tragedy is the engine of the story.
She won the battle.
The way Menzel becomes one with that movement is thrilling.
Its a love song to a tree, and Menzel sells it for all its worth.
Piser is particularly poignant as the late son, appearing spectrally to offer a last chance at closure.
Its a touching moment that ties up loose ends and satisfies emotionally.
Whatever their shortcomings, in the end were happy for both Jesse and forRedwood.
The answer is a qualified, perhaps even reluctant, yes.
I cant recall a better wrong-for-the-part performance in recent memory than McDonalds Rose.Read full review.
(Swings include John Michael Finley and Robert Pendilla.
(James T. Lane plays Armstrong at certain performances.
The play is perhaps the best use in ages of Circle in the Squares often troublesome in-the-round staging.
Sunset Blvd.
(Mandy Gonzalez will guest star as Norma Desmond at certain select performances.
