Now considered one of the greatest movies of all time, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws also famously had an incredibly tumultuous production. For a strictly limited engagement, theatre audiences can now be treated to London import The Shark is Broken—a dark comedy that explores the fiasco of making the definitive aquatic horror movie. A trio of engaging … Continue reading Theater Review: The Shark is Broken
Theater Review: The Great Gatsby – The Immersive Show
(Written by Jonathan Sim, ComingSoon.net) Put on your Sunday best and step back into the Roaring Twenties with The Great Gatsby - The Immersive Show. Mr. Jay Gatsby is throwing a party at his mansion, and it’s the hottest ticket in town! Arrive at the Gatsby Mansion in the Park Central Hotel in New York … Continue reading Theater Review: The Great Gatsby – The Immersive Show
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: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Operatic and bizarre, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is already a bonafide classic on the stage and on film. With its legendary status firmly established, Broadway’s 2023 revival still managed a whopping eight Tony nominations. How would any show measure up to these lofty expectations, or manage to pull off the epic … Continue reading Theater Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Theater Review: Camelot
Camelot the musical has been around for quite some time, with the original Broadway production opening in December of 1960. In 1967, a film adaptation was made, starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave in the lead roles. Now, playwright Aaron Sorkin has arrived to inject playful zippiness into the dialogue. Updating a classic is always … Continue reading Theater Review: Camelot
Theater Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY
Rare is the theatre experience that leaves multiple intense emotions coursing through one’s veins just as it arrives at the pinnacle of its tragicomic heights. The bizarrely named, fiercely performed The Seagull/Woodstock, NY is perhaps one of the most powerful pieces of stage art I have seen in a long time. My Broadway familiarity lies … Continue reading Theater Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY
Theater Review: Lea Michele in Funny Girl
In what may be perhaps one of the most meta Broadway turns of all time, Lea Michele’s masterful debut as Fanny Brice has finally come to fruition. Michele’s Glee character Rachel Berry would eventually squander her golden opportunity by leaving Broadway in pursuit of a television pilot that flopped hard; luckily, Michele does not appear … Continue reading Theater Review: Lea Michele in Funny Girl
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