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Roma Torre

October 24, 2023 2:02 pm

The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Classic, Impressively Staged, Once Again Defies Translation

Jeremy Eva Samantha in Great Gatsby

★★★☆☆ Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star in Paper Mill Playhouse’s Broadway-aimed musical

October 19, 2023 7:00 pm

Partnership: A Century-Old Play for Our Time

Partnership Gillette Haider and Echebiri

★★★★☆ The Mint Theater unearths another winner by a forgotten writer, Elizabeth Baker

October 12, 2023 9:57 pm

Gutenberg! The Musical!: Revisionist History of the Hysterical Kind

★★★★★ “Book of Mormon’s” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for a gay old time

April 26, 2023 9:52 pm

New York, New York: The New Musical Can’t Quite Make It Here

★★☆☆☆ Despite its A-list creative team, the splashy stage version of the 1977 film disappointingly falls flat. 

April 24, 2023 8:55 pm

Good Night, Oscar: Sean Hayes Displays Dual Talents in Masterful Performance

★★★★★ The Will & Grace star portrays real life comedian and musical virtuoso Oscar Levant, in a role Hayes was born to play.

April 12, 2023 8:54 pm

Fat Ham: Pulitzer Prize Winner Makes for a Savory Dish on Broadway

★★★★★ An inspired adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as seen through a modern lens.

March 30, 2023 9:53 pm

Life of Pi: Play Delivers Stunning Stagecraft to Die For

★★★★☆ A terrific stage adaptation of the best selling novel ingeniously fleshes out humans and animals alike.

March 2, 2023 8:10 pm

Disney’s Hercules: Olympian Musical Takes the Stage, at Paper Mill

★★★☆☆ Lear deBessonet directs the Alan Menken-David Zippel musical featuring Bradley Gibson, James Monroe Iglehart, Shuler Hensley and Isabelle McCalla

April 6, 2021 8:51 pm

Blindness: Chilling Dystopian Drama Marks Return of Off-Broadway

Blindness. Credit: Roma Torre

★★★★☆ Harrowing story theater featuring high tech sound system simulating a pandemic of a different sort

March 2, 2021 2:46 pm

Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March

★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today’s fractured politics

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Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Extremely Smart in Smart Jamie Wax Character Study

By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife

Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Shines in a Dark New Play

By Roma Torre

★★★☆☆ The 'Hacks' star takes the Broadway stage solo, as an abused trailer park wife who just wants to write

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Attacks, Unpersuasively

By Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Takes on Molière But Not Prosperously, Foolishly

By David Finkle

★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O'Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets

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