Continuity: A Lighter Look at Making a Movie Changes into Darker Realities by Michael Sommers

★★★ Rachel Chavkin of Hadestown fame directs a slight yet thoughtful comedy by Bess Wohl The post Continuity: A Lighter Look at Making a Movie Changes into Darker Realities…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:51pm on May 21, 2019☆⚑

Octet: How Modern Technology Makes Us Mad, In Exuberant Song by Michael Sommers

★★★★ Dave Malloy delivers a powerful new musical that's too thoughtful for Broadway The post Octet: How Modern Technology Makes Us Mad, In Exuberant Song appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:51pm on May 19, 2019☆⚑

Octet: Dave Malloy's Musical 12-Step Program is Tarot-iffic by David Finkle

★★★★ Eight singer-actors, under Annie Tippe's flawless direction, sing out 12-Step woes The post Octet: Dave Malloy's Musical 12-Step Program is Tarot-iffic appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:50pm on May 19, 2019☆⚑

Mac Beth: Something Wicked Cool This Way Comes by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Director Erica Schmidt and an all-female cast update Shakespeare's bloody tragedy for the Instagram age The post Mac Beth: Something Wicked Cool This Way Comes a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:41pm on May 19, 2019☆⚑

Mac Beth: Light Not Only Thickens But Goes Out on Will's Classic by David Finkle

★★ Director Erica Schmidt wrongly thinks that a girls-school spin is how to treat the Bard The post Mac Beth: Light Not Only Thickens But Goes Out on Will's Classic appeared firs…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:40pm on May 19, 2019☆⚑

The Feingold Column: Fire in an Uncrowded Theater by Michael Feingold

The rise and fall of America's unconvincing answer to Stratford-upon-Avon The post The Feingold Column: Fire in an Uncrowded Theater appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 3:00pm on May 17, 2019☆⚑

Happy Talk: Matchmaking and Mystery in the Suburbs by Elysa Gardner

★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg's new play, starring Susan Sarandon and Marin Ireland, puts funny, vexing twists on suburban cliches The post Happy Talk: Matchmaking and Mystery…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:32pm on May 16, 2019☆⚑

Happy Talk: A Misleading Lady Enjoys Her Role of a Lifetime by Michael Sommers

★★★ Susan Sarandon depicts a matchmaker whose intentions may not be so pure The post Happy Talk: A Misleading Lady Enjoys Her Role of a Lifetime appeared first on New York …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:31pm on May 16, 2019☆⚑

Enter Laughing The Musical: Let's Hope You Like Corn by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ The York revives its old-fashioned theater-themed hit in honor of the company's 50th anniversary The post Enter Laughing The Musical: Let's Hope You Like Corn appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:00pm on May 16, 2019☆⚑

Proof of Love: A Classy Lady Speaks to Classism in African-American Life by Michael Sommers

★★★ Brenda Pressley coolly portrays a woman of quality in a life or death quandary The post Proof of Love: A Classy Lady Speaks to Classism in African-American Life appeare…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:55pm on May 15, 2019☆⚑

The Pink Unicorn: A Modern Mother's Quandary, Deep in the Heart of Texas by Elysa Gardner

★★★ A one-woman play casts Alice Ripley as the mother of a gender-neutral teen The post The Pink Unicorn: A Modern Mother's Quandary, Deep in the Heart of Texas appeared f…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:54pm on May 15, 2019☆⚑

Curse of the Starving Class: How the West Was Lost by Elysa Gardner

★★★★ Terry Kinney's witty. wrenching new production reveals the 1976 Sam Shepard classic as a play for our times The post Curse of the Starving Class: How the West Wa…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:51pm on May 13, 2019☆⚑

Curse of the Starving Class: A Blessing of a Revival by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Director Terry Kinney finds the perfect brooding poetic despair in Sam Shepard's late-'70s drama The post Curse of the Starving Class: A Blessing of a Revival ap…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:50pm on May 13, 2019☆⚑

Around the World in 80 Days: Whirlwind Entertainment and Laughter for All by Michael Sommers

★★★★★ An inventive version of Jules Verne's classic visits the New Victory Theater The post Around the World in 80 Days: Whirlwind Entertainment and Laughter fo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 6:15pm on May 11, 2019☆⚑

BLKS: A Madly Expressive Night Out With Some Messy Millennials by Michael Sommers

★★★★ Newcomer playwright Aziza Barnes delivers an audacious comedy at MCC Theater The post BLKS: A Madly Expressive Night Out With Some Messy Millennials appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:35am on May 10, 2019☆⚑

From London: Betrayal, Three Sisters, Top Girls Tops to Middling by David Finkle

Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill receive smart revivals, Anton Chekhov not so much The post From London: Betrayal, Three Sisters, Top Girls Tops to Middling appeared first on New York Stage Re…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 2:43pm on May 9, 2019☆⚑

High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Kops Musical

★★★ Jerome Robbins' 'Bathing Beauty Ballet' sparks the uneven Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical at Encores! The post High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Ko…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:30pm on May 9, 2019☆⚑

Luzia: Cirque du Soleil Sweeps Viewers on a Glowing Journey Through Mexico by Michael Sommers

★★★★ Superb circus artists swing, spin, and soar amid surreal visuals and sonorous music The post Luzia: Cirque du Soleil Sweeps Viewers on a Glowing Journey Through …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 2:20pm on May 8, 2019☆⚑

Passage: A Cool Experiment in the ABCs of Xenophobic Behavior by Michael Sommers

★★★ Soho Rep's typically top-notch production fills in the blanks of an experimental endeavor The post Passage: A Cool Experiment in the ABCs of Xenophobic Behavior appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:45pm on May 6, 2019☆⚑

From London: Henrik Ibsen, Andrea Levy, Rod Serling Honored Variously by David Finkle

Rosmersholm strongly revived, while Andrea Levy's thick novel, Serling's series adapted well enough The post From London: Henrik Ibsen, Andrea Levy, Rod Serling Honored Variously appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:20am on May 5, 2019☆⚑

Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby by Elysa Gardner

★★★ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre The post Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadwa…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:35pm on May 3, 2019☆⚑

Paul Swan is Dead and Gone: Portrait of an Unusual Artist as an Old Man by Michael Sommers

★★ A new bio-drama is performed as a bizarre dance recital in a Chelsea townhouse The post Paul Swan is Dead and Gone: Portrait of an Unusual Artist as an Old Man appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:33pm on May 3, 2019☆⚑

Caroline's Kitchen: Neatly Dishing Out a British Menu of Rueful Humor by Michael Sommers

★★★ Playgoers with a taste for British humor may well enjoy what's being served at 59E59 Theaters The post Caroline's Kitchen: Neatly Dishing Out a British Menu of Rueful H…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 1:30pm on May 3, 2019☆⚑

From London: Maggie Smith Astonishes in A German Life by David Finkle

★★★★★ The 2016 documentary, indelibly directed on the stage by Jonathan Kent The post From London: Maggie Smith Astonishes in A German Life appeared first on Ne…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:10pm on May 2, 2019☆⚑

The Plough and the Stars: Dubliners Come to Vivid Life in Irish Rep's Revival by Michael Sommers

★★★★★ A superb company performs Sean O'Casey's tragicomedy about the 1916 Easter Rising The post The Plough and the Stars: Dubliners Come to Vivid Life in Irish…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 8:51pm on April 30, 2019☆⚑