Allison Adato

“In an enthralling performance, Linney embodies both memoirist and memory.”

“Betrayal is an unembellished marvel and this Broadway revival gives the 1978 play a smart, stripped down treatment.”

“It is this returning veteran in the title role that makes this Lear memorable.”

“One wants to go back and tell 15-year-old Heidi: “Someday you’re going to have a Broadway stage all to yourself, and people are going to pay to listen to you talk about the things you care the most about.”

“What it rarely achieves is becoming a fully realized evening of theater. But it is, in the tradition of the American jukebox musical, a fair simulation.”

“There is, contained within American Son’s lean script, much to discuss after the curtain falls.”

“When that secret is revealed, Washington’s Hickey proves a transfixing storyteller, a salesman who knows how to close.”

“Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, in which a nonagenarian revisits events of her life refracted through both her own dementia and the differing recollections of her younger selves, is a not-quite-memory play filled with regret, resentment, entitlement, various bodily indignities — and it is, as the old joke goes, all over much too quickly.”

“Meteor Shower burns brightly with laughs.”

“M. Butterfly has proven its relevance into the Wikipedia era — you can look up the particulars on your phone at intermission if you’re so inclined — but its greater enduring value is as a thought-provoking fable.”

“As deftly handled by director Rebecca Taichman (a 2017. Tony winner for Indecent), Priestley’s metaphysics are poignant where, in less able hands, they could come off as annoyingly mystical.”

“Unfortunately, this first Broadway production of Marvin’s Roomnever quite justifies its trip back to the early ’90s.”

“The feel-good events, currently being reenacted roughly four miles from the World Trade Center site, are as much a part of our shared 9/11 narrative as those that still give many nightmares.”

“One need not know Seurat to enjoy this enchanting production. Jake Gyllenhaal, bearded and intense with a rich singing voice, makes the character understood immediately...This production is smartly directed by Sarna Lapine, with an economical staging based on her 2016 concert version...”