Reviews
13
Average
60
Highest
93
Lowest
12
Nytheatre · Oct 17, 2010
“I disliked the show very much, principally for its deliberate, rampant, and random distortions of the historical record, which strike me as both dangerous and antithetical to the principles America is founded upon.”
Nytheatre · Apr 16, 2010
“But I just don't get the appeal of watching them pretend to be iconic figures whose work I can hear and see at the press of a button.”
Nytheatre · Mar 25, 2009
“Reza's tragedy is diminished to sitcom ordinariness: it functions, but it doesn't attain the level of grandeur that I think it deserves.”
“The play, just 90 minutes long, still overstays its welcome, and in at least one area—its politically incorrect depiction of Carmichael as an unredeemed racist—it doesn't so much push buttons as simply annoy.”
“This has the twin effects of slowing the show down constantly and enlivening the proceedings enormously.”
“American Idiot is instead a long string of cliches... it's ultimately derivative, boring theatre.”
“Bengal Tiger demands to be seen by people who care about humanity and art and their troubling devolutions in the 21st century.”
“The score, by Elton John with lyrics by bookwriter/original screenwriter Lee Hall, is nondescript in the book songs.”
“This show annoyed me greatly—as I watched it and then, later, as I thought about what it signified.”
“Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars Bart Howard's words are as good as any to conjure the euphoric, elating spirit of Twyla Tharp's newest contribution to Broadway.”
“Jones gives a performance that I'd classify as one of the ten or so best I've ever seen in the theatre.”
“I love the idea of In the Heights, and I think Miranda's voice as performer and writer needs to be heard on the NYC stage. But this show is a jumble of ideas, some of them interesting, many others quite mundane or cliched. In the Heights has got a beat; it's got energy. But it's finally so much less than it ought to have been!”
“Theater's revival of South Pacific is the high point of the spring season—exactly the passionate and bittersweet musical romance that I hoped it would be.”