• 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

Steven Suskin

December 12, 2019 9:00 pm

The Thin Place: Lucas Hnath Unspools a Minimalist Ghost Story

★★★☆☆ Not much happens in this slight play by the author of ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’

December 12, 2019 8:01 pm

Harry Connick Jr.: Celebrating Cole Porter With Brass and Multimedia

★★★★☆ The crooner smoothly guides us through the Porter songbook, sparking the evening with theatrical surprises

December 9, 2019 9:56 pm

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: Stephen Adly Guirgis Strikes Again

★★★★★ An overstuffed, engrossing, masterful new play from Pulitzer winner Guirgis

December 4, 2019 9:00 pm

Harry Townsend’s Last Stand: Wheezy Geriatric Comedy, with Fart Jokes

★★☆☆☆ Len Cariou does his best to charm his way through George Eastman’s creaky comedy

November 17, 2019 9:46 pm

The Inheritance: A Magnificent Look at the Post-‘Angels in America’ World

★★★★★ Matthew Lopez’s two-part play, with Stephen Daldry at the helm, is not to be missed

October 28, 2019 2:04 pm

The Michaels: Richard Nelson Extends the Excellence of His Apple and Gabriel Cycles

★★★★★ Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Brenda Wehle take us back to another kitchen in Nelson’s Rhinebeck

October 17, 2019 9:46 pm

The Sound Inside: Mary Louise Parker Spins an Intriguing Literary Yarn

★★★★★ Adam Rapp makes his Broadway debut with a riveting discourse between two novelists

October 15, 2019 9:50 pm

Soft Power: Hillary Get Your Gun?

★★★☆☆ A sharp East-West political satire from David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori doesn’t quite deliver

October 10, 2019 9:45 pm

Linda Vista: Unadulterated Comedy Back on Broadway, from Tracy Letts

★★★★★ The ‘August: Osage County’ playwright returns with an explosively funny comedy of crotchety manners

October 7, 2019 9:22 pm

The Wrong Man: Joshua Henry Shows Conviction as Man Wrongly Accused

★★★☆☆ Pop songwriter Ross Golan tries his hand at a sung-through musical, directed by Thomas Kail

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 11
  • Page 12
  • Page 13
  • Page 14
  • Page 15
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 23
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare’s Romance Right for Summer

By David Finkle

★★★★★ Daniel Sullivan directs with his standard skill, Raúl Esparza, Lily Rabe head superb cast

An American Daughter: Wendy Wasserstein’s Play Shows Its Age

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Jean Lichty plays the title role in this unevenly acted revival also featuring Montego Glover and Robert Sean Leonard

An American Daughter: Wendy Wasserstein Revival Falters

By David Finkle

★★☆☆☆ The swift-tongued playwright takes on a flawed powerful woman, Sarna Lapine directs

Casey Likes: Back to the Past, as a Young’un Remembers It

By Elysa Gardner

The rising Broadway star traces his young life and career through music, with nods to classic rock, Alan Menken, and the Jonas Brothers

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.