REVIEWS
Review: ‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin’’ is eight counts of wonderful
New York City streets dance with Bob Fosse’s influence. The American artist materialized as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the mid-20th century with a genre of choreography that became standard practice in...
Review: Broadway’s ‘Parade’ resurrects the soured and shameful dream of Atlanta
On January 6, 2021, Kevin Seefried traveled 100 miles to join thousands who stormed the U.S. Capitol, and the image of him armed with a Confederate flag became synonymous with insurrection. He and his...
Review: Jamie Lloyd’s austere direction exposes modern cracks in ‘A Doll’s House’
In the latest adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s enduring classic, “A Doll’s House,” our protagonist Nora — Academy Award-winning actor Jessica Chastain — enters before the play’s start, remaining perched on a simple wooden chair....
Review: ‘Pictures from Home’ is missing a distinct artistic lens
Take a picture, it’ll last longer. This phrase transcended from sarcastic adage to artistic mission in the hands of American photographer Larry Sultan. In 1992, Sultan published “Pictures from Home,” a landmark photobook subjecting...
Review: ‘The Collaboration’ is an unfinished portrait of the artist as a young and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat catapulted to fame during the 1980s with his carnal, colorful paintings. Since then, contradiction has been his most loyal fan. He’s been labeled genius and absurd. He grew to global stardom, but...
Review: Stephen McKinley Henderson’s expertise is on full display in ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
Riverside Drive is a scenic thoroughfare running up Manhattan’s west side — from 72nd Street, threading through Morningside Heights, Harlem and Washington Heights. The direction is parallel to the iconic avenues of Broadway, where...
Review: ‘Some Like It Hot’ makes a modern case for a screen gem
Transforming beloved IP into compelling musical theater is an inexact science, but the transformation part is nonnegotiable. As the discard pile of recent VHS-inspired flops can attest, audiences need a reason why stories are...
Flat direction threatens to kill Adrienne Kennedy’s masterful “Ohio State Murders”
In a recent “Vanity Fair” profile, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald named her current role of Suzanne Alexander in Broadway’s “Ohio State Murders” as the hardest to date. Suzanne is a semi-autobiographical stand-in...
Time has sharpened ‘Ain’t No Mo’ ’s points and edges
My dearest Black sisters, brothers and ”those that don’t give a damn,” I regret to inform you that we have lost our right to complain. “Brother ‘Righttocomplain,’” that is. He rests eternally in a...
In Broadway’s ‘A Beautiful Noise’ the music is more interesting than the man
By now, fans of Neil Diamond know that the man is from New York. He references the city in a string of time-held hits like “New York Boy,” “Brooklyn Roads” and “I Am…I Said.”...
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