Gotham Playgoer

Theater reviews and ratings of recent New York plays and musicals

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Yen

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C Anna Jordan’s prize-winning drama about three members of a British underclass family and their neighbor is having its New York premiere in...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Jitney

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A Although written first, Jitney is the last of the ten plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle to reach Broadway. This superb prod...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

The Liar

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A- One of the most enjoyable plays I saw in 2011 was The School for Lies , David Ives’s delightful riff on Moliere’s The Misanthrope, at Cl...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Tiny Beautiful Things ** C

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Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice columns from The Rumpus , an online website, was a bestseller. Actor Nia Vardalo...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

On Your Feet ** C+

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If exuberance were all it took to make a Broadway musical a winner, this jukebox bio-musical about Gloria and Emilio Estefan and the Miami S...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Looking Back at 2016

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Judging from the shows I saw in 2016, New York theater has had a better year than in 2015. This year I awarded **** (Very Good) ratings to 1...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Theater Reviews: A Change in Scoring

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Loyal reader, For some months, I have been concerned that my 0-to-5 star rating system lacks sufficient nuance. In particular, a 3-star rati...
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