Peter Gallagher, Julianna Margulies. (Photo: Joan Marcus) Left on Tenth By Fern Siegel Memoirs can be self-serving or enlightening. If the author is funny, rueful and aware of personal ironies, they can be both. That’s the case with Delia Ephron (“You’ve Got Mail”), the Hollywood screenwriter/novelist who penned a best-selling 2022 memoir. She addressed her…
Robert Downey, Jr(Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) McNeal By Deirdre Donovan Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal, a new play about artificial intelligence, is likely to please some theatergoers and leave others with deeply furrowed brows. Under the direction of Bartlett Sher, and starring Academy Award-winning actor Robert Downey, Jr., the drama investigates how authors use AI…
Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Romeo + Juliet By Deirdre Donovan Thanks to Sam Gold, Generation Z now has an opportunity to get up close and personal with Romeo + Juliet, which recently opened at Circle in the Square. Although some may object to the production’s conspicuous courting of a…
Jim Parsons and the cast of Our Town (Photo: Daniel Rader) Our Town By Deirdre Donovan Kenny Leon, director of the current streamlined revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, brings a fresh new interpretation to the classic. He takes the revered play and makes it into a multicultural theatrical statement…
Leanne Best, Ophelia Lovibond, Helena Wilson, Laura Donnelly (Photo: Joan Marcus) The Hills of California By Marc Miller The Hills of California, to begin with, isn’t about California, or even hills. The title of Jez Butterworth’s great big Broadway play refers to some mid-20th century Johnny Mercer pop ballad, not a famous one, that receives…
Daniel Dae Kim (Photo: Joan Marcus) Yellow Face By Julia Polinsky Part backstage comedy, part political satire, part based in fact and part pure fiction, David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face is by turns hilarious, touching, and disturbing. It’s been suggested that we might appreciate the gift to see ourselves as other see us. But we…
Patti LuPone, Mia Farrow (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) The Roommate By David Schultz It’s beyond unusual to start a show with the stars taking a bow. But Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone wield such theatrical clout that, as they walk onstage in The Roommate at the Booth Theatre, winding through designer Bob Crowley’s suggestive, minimalist…
Cole Escola (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Oh, Mary! By Deirdre Donovan Theatergoers can now rendezvous with Mary Todd Lincoln at the Lyceum Theatre as Cole Escola’s hit comedy Oh, Mary! transfers from its downtown digs to the Great White Way. Brilliantly directed by Sam Pinkleton, and starring Escola in the eponymous role, it is an uproariously…
Peter Friedman, Sydney Lemmon (Photo: Emilio Madrid) JOB By David Schultz After two sold out runs downtown, this probing drama has moved to Broadway. Director Michael Herwitz marshals this two-hander with an undercurrent of suspense that quickly intensifies as the evening progresses. Written by 26-year-old playwright Max Wolf Friedlich, this 80-minute roller coaster ride jolts…
The cast of Stereophonic (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Stereophonic By Deirdre Donovan David Adjmi’s Stereophonic, meticulously directed by Daniel Aukin, comes to Broadway with a ton of buzz. Following its sold-out run at Playwrights Horizons last season, it has winged five blocks over to the Golden Theatre, bringing all of its theatrical magic with it. The…