PJ Grisar

“Director Nicholas Hytner has staged a boxing match for today's discourse, without changing a line from a pre-Oct. 7 script.”

“But there’s a difference between being childlike and being sophomoric.”

“With jazzy ear-worms and a poignant showstopper in which MI5 secretary Hester Legatt (Jak Malone) dictates a letter to the agency's fictive serviceman, Mincemeat is supremely entertaining.”

“The triumph of this iteration is how it anticipates its audience, teasing them with frothy liberation before making them gasp at Nazi armbands and shattered windows.”

“"Its treatment of the source material is duly deferential and just different enough...True to Minchin’s stand-up background, his lyrics are clever and often Sondheimian in their rhyme scheme. Only one tune feels gratuitous and out-of-place...”