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Latest Review Roundups

Review Roundup: Shaina Taub's SUFFS Opens On Broadway!
April 18, 2024

The fight for women's votes has made its way to Broadway in Suffs, a new musical from Shaina Taub, opening tonight at the Music Box Theatre! Read the reviews below to see how the critics responded to this historic new musical!

Review Roundup: THE WIZ Returns To Broadway!
April 17, 2024

Did critics think The Wiz was wonderful? Read the reviews as the newest Broadway revival of the classic musical opens on Broadway!

Review Roundup: Critics Weigh In on Suzan-Lori Parks' SALLY & TOM
April 17, 2024

The Public Theater just celebrated opening night for the New York premiere of SALLY & TOM, a bold new dramedy written by Pulitzer Prize winner and Public Theater Writer-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Check out what the critics are saying!

Review Roundup: LEMPICKA Opens on Broadway
April 14, 2024

Lempicka, the new musical portrait of artist Tamara de Lempicka, opened on Broadway tonight, Sunday, April 14 at the Longacre Theatre. See what the critics had to say here!

Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of Ian McKellen in PLAYER KINGS?
April 12, 2024

Bringing together Shakespeare's two great history plays, Player Kings is now open at the Noël Coward Theatre. Ian McKellen plays Falstaff in a new version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, adapted by the award-winning writer and director Robert Icke. A divided country, leadership crumbling, corruption in the air. 

Review Roundup: THE OUTSIDERS Opens On Broadway
April 11, 2024

S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders has made the jump from page to stage and is opening on Broadway tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The critics stopped by to see what the musical take on the literary classic has in store for audiences! Read the reviews!


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Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Rose Theatre
UK / West End: April 19, 2024

As delicate and fragile as one of the glass creatures that are collected, Tennesse Williams' beguiling story of memory, The Glass Menagerie combines themes of hope, rejection, disappointment and profound sadness.

Review: BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS, Soho Theatre
UK / West End: April 19, 2024

A cathartic and powerful moment, a veinous fist unclenching.

REVIEW: Thomas Bernhard's THE PRESIDENT Retains A Resonance In The 21st Century
Australia - Sydney: April 19, 2024

Sydney Theatre Company and Gate Theatre’s-production of Thomas Bernhard’s THE PRESIDENT arrives in Sydney following it’s Dublin season.  Directed by Gate’s Tom Creed, the political satire, translated by Gitta Honegger, from 1975 retains a relevance in the contemporary world of leaders that forget they govern democracies and are elected to serve the people.

Review: DIANA: THE UNTOLD AND UNTRUE STORY, King's Head Theatre
UK / West End: April 19, 2024

This is a fantastical and entertaining production and a great way to honour the icon herself.

Review: MACHINAL, The Old Vic
UK / West End: April 19, 2024

Given the emotional investment required on stage and in the stalls, one feels somewhat shortchanged by a production that invites sympathy for a character with few redeeming features

Review: HIGH MAINTENANCE at The Road Theatre On Magnolia
Los Angeles: April 18, 2024

Ritt raises questions about the ethical and moral quandaries of employing AI to replace humans in a distinctly human space — art — but they aren’t pointed enough to really spark conversation or suggest insights, settling instead for an amusing if slight glimpse into the near future.

Nashville Children's Theatre's World Premiere of FINDING NEMO Musical Is Captivating and Heartwarming
Nashville: April 18, 2024

Captivating, heartwarming, colorful, imaginative and down-right magical, Nashville Children’s Theatre’s world premiere production – it’s 19th in the past few years since executive artistic director Ernie Nolan’s arrival – of the theatre for young audiences version of Disney-Pixar’s Finding Nemo is just the latest theatrical hit from the venerable Nashville institution.

Review: EMMA is Eccentric at the Denver Center
Denver: April 18, 2024

When people think of works of art that have vastly outlived their creator, especially as it relates to literature, there is no bigger name than William Shakespeare. His mark on history has proven to have an impact that will live on in perpetuity.

Review: FAT HAM at Seattle Rep
Seattle: April 18, 2024

So, did the Rep’s “Fat Ham” crush my soul? Absolutely not and I must entreat anyone reading this, DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!

Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild
Washington, DC: April 18, 2024

It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.” 

Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at The Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre
Hong Kong: April 18, 2024

The stage production of the beloved classic family musical, 'The Sound of Music,' based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, premiered on Broadway in 1959 and went on to win five Tony Awards.

Review: SOPHIE'S SURPRISE 29TH, Underbelly Boulevard
UK / West End: April 18, 2024

As any fan of this art form will tell you, the first rule of cabaret shows is: never sit in the front row. The second rule is: never tell cabaret virgins the first rule.

Review: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID is 'Most Likely to Delight Your Kids' at FIRST STAGE
Milwaukee, WI: April 18, 2024

Joshie says respect your parents, follow your dreams, and take your kids to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical at First Stage. Directed by Julie Woods-Robinson with musical direction by Paula Tillen, this spunky show runs through May 5th in Milwaukee and is a great one for young kids.

Review: BIG FISH THE MUSICAL at University Of Sioux Falls
South Dakota: April 18, 2024

BIG FISH is a Broadway Musical  adapted from Tim Burton’s 2003 film of the same title, and is the story of a man named Edward Bloom who aspired to do “great things” and be the hero of his own life story. He tries to relate that sense of adventure and aspiration in his son and all the people around him by telling tall tales.

Review: FIVE NEW SHORT PLAYS, Jack Studio Theatre
UK / West End: April 18, 2024

A mixed bag of productions united by wonderful acting and committed writing

Review: THE CHER SHOW at THEATRE UNDER THE STARS
Houston: April 18, 2024

I am unsure if I know of any other music diva who needs three different actresses to play her, but Cher seems to have required that. We have not one, not two, but three Chers in this show. And do they trot on, do their part of life, and leave? Heck no! They all talk to each other, advise each other, and sing together all night long. It’s like the three musketCHERs or something!

Review: THE ZIEGFELD GIRLS REVUE Exposes More Than History at The Green Room 42
Cabaret: April 18, 2024

THE ZIEGFELD GIRLS REVUE, on April 13th at the Green Room 42, puts a lot on view: Female pulchritude, nearly nude, with attitude.

Review: CHEEKY LITTLE BROWN, Stratford East
UK / West End: April 18, 2024

C.S. Lewis said that friendship is, like philosophy and art, unnecessary. “It has no survival value”, yet, “it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Lady loves Gemma. They’ve been best friends forever, but haven’t seen each other in six months. On Gemma’s birthday, Lady shows up at the party. Nkenna Akunna takes us on a disastrous night out. It feels like the pair should dissect the demise of their friendship, but they never do.

Review: MAY CONTAIN FOOD MAY CONTAIN YOU, Woolwich Works
UK / West End: April 18, 2024

May Contain Food May Contain You, devised and performed by Sonya Cullingford and Simon Palmer, is Protein’s “scaled-down rural touring version” of May Contain Food, which was originally devised and performed by Cullingford, Carl Harrison, Matthew Winston and Rachele Rapisardi.

Review: DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, Sadler's Wells
UK / West End: April 18, 2024

“When are we old? How can experience and embodied knowledge be brought into creative play? And what is the role of dance in questioning the idealisation of youth in our culture?”



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