The New York Times – Film:
The latest trend on Broadway is celebrity co-producing: A-listers who now have credits as backers of plays and musicals.
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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Megan Thee Stallion to Leave ‘Moulin Rouge!’ on Broadway Early
The New York Times – Music:
The rapper will perform in “Moulin Rouge!” for the final time on Friday, though the production didn’t say why she was leaving more than two weeks early.
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‘The Lost Boys’ Review: Live, Die, Reprise
The New York Times – Music:
A Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 movie gets a lot of mileage from ’80s rocker aesthetics and over-the-top spectacle — until its second half.
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Review: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Revival Gives Us What We Want
The New York Times – Music:
Sam Pinkleton’s new revival at Studio 54 gives us the big gay mayhem we want while also maintaining some order via Rachel Dratch’s droll Narrator.
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Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson and the Truth Behind ‘The Fear of 13’
The New York Times – Film:
“The Fear of 13,” about a man who spent two decades on death row for a murder he didn’t commit, is a story that the playwright says she “couldn’t shake.”
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‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: Oh, What a Beautiful Sendup
The New York Times – Music:
Cinco Paul’s loving spoof of Golden Age musicals, adapted from a TV series, comes to Broadway, where its charming musical numbers can really shine.
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Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Seduce in ‘Fallen Angels’
The New York Times – Film:
Lust is the comic engine driving the action of a riotous revival of one of Noël Coward’s early plays, with Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, at Todd Haimes Theater.
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‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted
The New York Times – Film:
The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.
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Review: ‘The Fear of 13,’ With Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, Doesn’t Add Up
The New York Times – Film:
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.