520 stories by "Jacob Malizio"
Military lawyer Daniel Kaffee is known for his wit, charm, and uncanny talent for closing cases before they ever get to trial. When assigned to defend two young Marines accused of murder, hi…
Plenty of what makes Sorkin Sorkin is already evident here — punchy dialogue, swift scenes, moral certainty. (The characters may not always know what is right and just, but Sorkin does.) …
Yet for all the strengths of Lincoln Center Theater’s sleek new revival of Sorkin’s military drama, at the Vivian Beaumont through January 10, the biggest letdown is how leaden those sam…
Like The West Wing, A Few Good Men airs its morality proudly, and there’s an innocence to its structure that could only come from a writer who was still figuring out how to tell stories. A…
Sorkin’s dialogue is as ping-y as it was ever going to be, but in what winds up feeling like an oddly muted almost three hours of high-stakes legal drama, its crackles never quite spark to…
A Few Good Men, even in a production as generously appointed and grandly performed as this, offers truths that just aren’t that hard to handle.
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While the truth to be handled in this case may be in the eye of the beholder, it shows the difficult questions A Few Good Men still poses almost four full decades after its original staging.…
The production may not generate much excitement, but it earns a respectful salute—the proper response to a show whose duties have been discharged honorably, if not with special distinction…
How do you escape the shadow of “A Few Good Men?” Just ask Michael Arden… It’s a tough act to follow, but under Arden’s crackling direction, “A Few Good Men” is as explosively …
LTC’s revival of Sorkin’s court-martial drama makes it clear that the Tony Awards got it right. “A Few Good Men” is a creaky old play.
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Tony Award® winner Bill Irwin returns to Broadway (and to Molière) with his new adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid, a comedy about money, medicine, and marital mayhem. Perpetual patient A…
Dirden’s exquisite production, though, is both amusing and wise. They will tell you at the door that it takes 90 minutes, but really that time vanishes in a swirl — of beautiful fabrics,…
As a New Yorker headline rightly reminded us just this week, Bill Irwin is “The OG Clown.” The legendary performer is also a perfect fit to portray self-pitying hypochondriac Monsieur Ar…
Irwin’s adaptation might have easily lent itself to the style of a Carol Burnett skit if Dirden had loosened the reins and let the camp horses run. But there’s no cohesive comedic sensib…
Irwin knows how to clown an audience, and in this enjoyable, broadly comic interpretation, the buffoonery is at least as much the point as some pointed critiques of modern-day American healt…
If this production fails to amuse, except in spurts, it isn’t the fault of Molière in general or even this play in particular: Off Broadway’s Red Bull Theater mounted an excellent accou…
Perhaps the audience in the Todd Haimes Theatre imagined that they had laryngitis. Because the laughs certainly did not flow freely at the recent performance of Molière’s “The Imaginary…
This revival of “The Imaginary Invalid,” which opened Thursday at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, has a bad case of anemia despite Brandon J. Dirden directing the Moliere classic…
A deluxe affair, Roundabout’s rendition of Moliere’s comedy is just what the doctor ordered to brighten autumn in New York.
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If laughter is the best medicine, The Imaginary Invalid, which just opened on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre, should cure almost anything that ails you.
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Home is more than a street number. In the aftermath of the Palisades fires that took his home, Billy relives his memories and moments that mattered the most, and reflects on how the power of…
Making comedy is what Crystal does with loss… With “860,” he proves that he has only grown more skilled at deploying laughter to assuage the pain of grief. Crystal may be heartbroken, …
His hair might be white, but his sculpting of a moment is still unparallelled: this is both the funniest and saddest show on Broadway right now, and with good reason.
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860 is as succinct as it is poignant, with Crystal taking audience members by the hand and down his memory lane — and refusing to let go of their hearts.
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Crystal is the sort of comic who can infuse his material with just the right amount of self-deprecation to seem like something of an underdog in life’s kennel, a pretty impressive feat giv…
