• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Reviews from Broadway and Beyond

  • Now Playing
  • Recently Opened
    • Broadway
    • Off-Broadway
    • Beyond
  • Critics’ Picks
  • Our Critics
    • About Us
    • Melissa Rose Bernardo
    • Michael Feingold
    • David Finkle
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Jesse Oxfeld
    • MICHAEL SOMMERS
    • Steven Suskin
    • Frank Scheck
    • Roma Torre
    • Bob Verini
  • Sign Up
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Now Playing
  • Recently Opened
    • Broadway
    • Off-Broadway
    • Beyond
  • Critics’ Picks
  • Our Critics
    • About Us
    • Melissa Rose Bernardo
    • Michael Feingold
    • David Finkle
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Jesse Oxfeld
    • MICHAEL SOMMERS
    • Steven Suskin
    • Frank Scheck
    • Roma Torre
    • Bob Verini
  • Sign Up
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

David Finkle

February 6, 2025 4:09 pm

Urinetown: The Once-Startling Musical Handily Revived

★★★☆☆ Composer-lyricist Mark Hollman, book writer-lyricist Greg Kotis, director Teddy Bergman revitalize the unforgettable classic

January 26, 2025 8:00 pm

Beckett Briefs: The 20th-Century Master Served Masterfully

★★★★☆ Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Play, with F. Murray Abraham, Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street, Ciarán O’Reilly directing

January 15, 2025 8:00 pm

Show/Boat: A River: The Seminal, Historical Classic Severely Landlocked

★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic

December 22, 2024 7:57 pm

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue

★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening

December 17, 2024 11:51 pm

A Guide for the Homesick: 2 Actors, 4 Characters, 1 Misguided Script

★★☆☆☆ Actors McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger, director Shira Milikowsky distinguish Ken Urban’s confusing drama

November 21, 2024 8:57 pm

Death Becomes Her: 1992 Streep-Hawn Film Musicalized, Unbecomingly

★★☆☆☆ Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are the contentious bffs, with Christopher Gattelli directing-choreographing

November 21, 2024 8:53 pm

The Blood Quilt: Katori Hall’s Beautifully Stitched Sisters Play

★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts

November 14, 2024 8:57 pm

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, Sorta

★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast

November 13, 2024 8:00 pm

Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!: Bundy, Butler & Winokur Celebrate with Love

★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives

November 11, 2024 8:55 pm

A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful Noteworthy World

★★★★☆ James Monroe Iglehart stars in a tribute to one of the true 20th-century jazz greats

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Page 10
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 53
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Paranormal Activity: Cheap But Potent Thrills

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Things go scarily bump in the night in the new stage thriller based on the hugely successful horror film franchise

Paranormal Activity: Nightmare Entertainment

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ A supernatural story of possession packs a suspenseful two hours

The Real Ivanov: Diary of a Loser

By Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ Sam Underwood plays a woeful hero in a new version of Chekhov’s first drama

From Cambridge: Rhinoceros, Or Welcome to Zoo(dys)topia

By Bob Verini

★★★★★ John Turturro and Paul Giamatti topline a stunning cast in Diane Paulus’s revival, hilarious and horrifying by turns

CRITICS' PICKS

Just in Time: Jeremy Jordan Will Be Your Bobby Darin From Now On

★★★★☆ Replacing Jonathan Groff, the Broadway veteran delivers a stellar turn in the musical that merits a repeat viewing.

The Saviors: What Would Jesus Do?

★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Pure Theatrical Alchemy

★★★★★ Death really does become her, as the writer, composer and star - Jennifer Nettles - serves up a killer new musical.

women of Birthright

Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

From Cambridge, MA: Black Swan, Tu-Tu Thrilling

★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

Death of a Salesman: More Relevant Than Ever

★★★★★ Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott star in Joe Mantello's emotionally searing revival.

Sign up for new reviews

Copyright © 2026 • New York Stage Review • All Rights Reserved.

Website Built by Digital Culture NYC.