Jeremy Jordan can do no wrong when it comes to the Broadway stage. Most recently in The Great Gatsby, Jordan’s rich vocals and dominating stage presence helped to refresh a familiar tale. From new musical to random revival, Floyd Collins has quite an intriguing hook. Jordan plays the titular character, an American cave explorer who … Continue reading Theater Review: Floyd Collins
Theater Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Emmy-winning Succession actress Sarah Snook seduces the Broadway stage, with her show The Picture of Dorian Gray importing directly off its Olivier-winning run in the UK. Armed with minimal knowledge of the source material—my sole brush with Dorian Gray was in Showtime's underrated Penny Dreadful—I took my cushy seat in the Music Box Theatre simply … Continue reading Theater Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Theater Review: Old Friends
(Written by Intern, Alecia Wilk) With minimal prior knowledge about Stephen Sondheim’s career, a seat in the audience for Old Friends came with a sense of imposter syndrome. This montage of greatest hits celebrating the life of the legendary lyricist and composer is clearly meant for musical aficionados. The production, which carries on without so … Continue reading Theater Review: Old Friends
Theater Review: Smash
2020’s seemingly neverending pandemic left a lot of free time to revisit and reflect. One of the shows that brought me comfort—and a saucy, endlessly entertaining first-time binge watch—was NBC’s Smash. An immaculate deconstruction of Broadway devoted to intimate character moments and elaborate choreography, Smash may have only lasted two seasons, but it remains a … Continue reading Theater Review: Smash
Theater Review: Redwood
Based strictly on the pure performative power of Broadway megastar Idina Menzel, dark dramedy Redwood feels like the ultimate conundrum. It is a high budget spectacle with low budget indie roots, overcomplicating complex subject matter and ultimately botching the delivery of its absolutely beautiful message. Yet, despite being messy, the beauty peeks out just beyond … Continue reading Theater Review: Redwood
Theater Review: Once Upon a Mattress
Sutton Foster soars in Broadway’s snazzy new update of Once Upon a Mattress, on the Great White Way for the first time since 1996. One’s familiarity with the classic fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” should not impede upon their enjoyment of this hilariously off-kilter throwback musical. Despite being weary of checking out another … Continue reading Theater Review: Once Upon a Mattress
Theater Review: The Great Gatsby, The Musical
Everyone knows the story of Gatsby, the wealthy dreamer, don’t they? Partially coming of age in Long Island, New York, it was impossible to escape the omnipresence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Between the extensive English classroom dissections of the text to the impressive mansions my family and I would glimpse each time … Continue reading Theater Review: The Great Gatsby, The Musical
Theater Review: Water for Elephants, The Musical
Set in the 1930s during Prohibition, Broadway’s newest book/movie/stage adaptation, Water for Elephants, The Musical, makes a colossal, elephant-sized imprint on a crowded theatre landscape. This “spectacular” show takes the word quite literally, fully immersing the audience in its extravagance and over-the-top excitement. Is there any surprise that many in the ensemble have worked for … Continue reading Theater Review: Water for Elephants, The Musical
Theater Review: Grey House
Grey House, now playing at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, is the single most confounding and altogether baffling production from the Great White Way I have seen since my controversial hot take on underwhelming Mean Girls: The Musical. As with other critic reviews, unfortunately Tatiana Maslany was out for my show as well—her understudy, Claire Karpen, was … Continue reading Theater Review: Grey House
Theater Review: Almost Famous, The Musical
The layers upon layers of metatextual implications over a critic reviewing a play based on a movie where a critic writes about a band are certainly not lost on this writer. In fact, it is this aspect specifically that helped draw me to my seat at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, where Almost Famous: The … Continue reading Theater Review: Almost Famous, The Musical