• 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
    • Will Friedwald
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Sandy MacDonald
    • 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
    • Will Friedwald
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Sandy MacDonald
    • Jesse Oxfeld
    • MICHAEL SOMMERS
    • Steven Suskin
    • Frank Scheck
    • Roma Torre
    • Bob Verini
  • Sign Up
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Elysa Gardner

May 3, 2019 1:35 pm

Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby

Morrissey in Moorrissey. Photo: Jason Mendez/Getty Images.

★★★☆☆ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

April 24, 2019 9:45 pm

Ink: Springtime for Murdoch

Jonny Lee Miller, left, and Bertie Carvel in Ink. Photo: Joan Marcus.

★★★★☆ James Graham’s new play traces the rise of the British tabloid that helped launch a global media empire

April 21, 2019 7:50 pm

Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Bloody Brilliant

Kristine Nielsen, left, and Nathan Lane in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. Photo: Julia Cervantes.

★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac’s brilliant Broadway debut

April 17, 2019 8:51 pm

Hadestown: Anaïs Mitchell’s Myths and Hymns, from Way Downtown

Reeve Carney, left, and Eva Noblezada in Hadestown,/i>. Photo: Matthew Murphy.

★★★★☆ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin’s direction

April 16, 2019 9:54 pm

Socrates: The Power and Danger of Critical Thinking, in Another Fragile Democracy

Michael Stuhlbarg and Austin Smith in Socrates. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★★☆ Michael Stuhlbarg makes a triumphant return to the Public Theater in Tim Blake Nelson’s bracing, probing new play

April 7, 2019 8:52 pm

Oklahoma!: Back on the Farm, but Without the Bright Golden Haze

Rebecca Naomi Jones, left, and Damon Daunno in Oklahoma!. Photo: Little Fang.

★★★☆☆ Daniel Fish’s acclaimed new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic offers plenty of ambition but not enough joy

April 4, 2019 7:56 pm

King Lear: A Role Fit for A Commander

Jayne Houdyshell, left, and Glenda Jackson in King Lear. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe

★★★★☆ Glenda Jackson makes another welcome return, leading a supple cast in Shakespeare’s tragedy

April 2, 2019 7:01 pm

Do You Feel Anger?: Nasty Boys, and the Women Who Endure Them

Tiffany Villarin, left, and Megan Hill in Do You Feel Anger? Photo: Carol Rosegg.

★★☆☆☆ Young playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg offers an absurdist, simplistic look at sexism in the workplace

March 28, 2019 1:50 pm

The Lehman Trilogy: An American Dream, and Tragedy, Majestically Recalled

Left to right: Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley in The Lehman Trilogy. Photo: Stephanie Berger.

★★★★★ Sam Mendes’s stunning production of Stefano Massini’s rise-and-fall epic arrives in New York

March 21, 2019 9:34 pm

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, with Hits and Misses

From left, Ephraim Sykes, Jawan M. Jackson, Jeremy Pope, Derrick Baskin and James Harkness in Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations. Photo: Matthew Murphy.

★★★☆☆ Broadway’s latest jukebox musical mixes timeless music, exuberantly performed, with time-worn platitudes

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Page 12
  • Page 13
  • Page 14
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 19
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Creditors: Strindberg Updated, For Better and Worse

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith star in Jen Silverman's adaptation of Strindberg's classic drama.

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

Lights Out, Nat King Cole: Smile When Your Heart Is Breaking

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Dule Hill plays the title role in Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor's play with music, exploring Nat King Cole's troubled psyche.

CRITICS' PICKS

Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow

★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage

★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore

★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

Sign up for new reviews

Copyright © 2025 • New York Stage Review • All Rights Reserved.

Website Built by Digital Culture NYC.