4 posts tagged ‘Magazine / The Theatre’
Faustian Bargains in “Death Becomes Her” and “Burnout Paradise”
The New Yorker,
The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.
An Uneven “Prayer for the French Republic” Comes to Broadway
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
“Hell’s Kitchen” Brings Alicia Keys’s Musical Power to the Public
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
The Search for Faith, in Three Plays
In “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” “Scene Partners,” and “Waiting for Godot,” characters seeking redemption skirt the fringes of belief and delusion.