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2026 Tony Awards Predictions

Was this the worst year of new musicals in recent memory? Was this the best year of revivals...ever? Will Schmigadoon! get snubbed? Will Ragtime sweep? We find out in a week. Let's make some predictions!

Oh My God, Becky (Shaw)

The recipe for good theatre is simple, not easy. Clean writing, intriguing characters, and solid acting get you 99% of the way there. The revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw, up now at the Helen Hayes Theatre, has everything you need for good theatre and not much that you don’t.

Theatre for Normies: Every Brilliant Thing Review

At its core, Every Brilliant Thing is theatre for normies, written for the lowest common denominator of audience member. In seeking to be meaningful to everybody, it strips itself of depth.

Chess is Exactly What You'd Expect

It’s a doomed effort, the kind of production that makes you feel bad for those putting it on. Not because they are doing badly, but because the Sisyphian nature of their task is so tragically clear.

Bug Broadway Review

There's something that feels dirty and voyeuristic about watching this play (and not because of the nudity). We watch these people spiral, we watch them fall apart, we watch them kill others and then themselves. And for what? I’m not sure. It's a bit trauma-porny for my taste.

Tick Tock, Mother F*cker: Oedipus Review

Throughout, the cast and crew at Studio 54 swing for the fences. They wind up with a double. There’s nothing wrong with an extra base hit—but it isn't quite the home run that they’re trying for.

Gruesome Playground Injuries Review

Gruesome Playground Injuries is not an A-plus by any means, but not every show has to be.

Pain au Théâtre: The Baker's Wife Review

Live theatre is hard. So many things have to go right for any given production to happen at all, let alone for it to be any good. That's why it's magical when it works! Unfortunately, there's no magic to be found at Classic Stage’s The Baker’s Wife.

Sex, Drugs, and EDM

The new work by Jordan Tannahill playing at Studio Seaview manages to shock, delight, amuse, and devastate in equal measure.

Caroline: A Theatrical Masterclass

In Caroline, we watch the narrative dominos fall from start to finish with our hearts in our throats. Allen has crafted a meticulous, unbroken chain of cause and effect. He knows his characters intimately and trusts them to take the wheel. The result is simply great theatre, from end to end.

John Leguizamo's Big Yikes

Even when the show succeeds in building up tension, it reliably neuters itself with shoehorned exposition. One could argue that this is just how people–or at least, these characters–talk. And that might be true but–and I say this as a hardcore fan of American realism–it makes for shitty theatre.

High Risk, High Reward Theatre at The Public: Seat of Our Pants Review

The Seat of Our Pants is bold, brave, irreverent, thought provoking, and hilarious, but above all, it is a simply exceptional piece of theatre.

off-broadway

The Best (and Worst) of Y2K Shock Humor: Bat Boy Review

I guess it has some amount of cult classic appeal, but should that be enough to launch a production? I certainly don't think so.

What the F*ck is Up with Phones in the Theatre?!

It's rare I see theatre and don't have a single "note," but Appropriate was, to me, nearly flawless. The only problem was the f*cking phones.

review

Irish Rep's Ambitious Memory Play Falls Flat

There's no shortage of "big knotty issues" and complex, compelling character dynamics to be mined here... but The Honey Trap stays mostly on the surface. I wanted to be drawn in, to invest in the characters, and care about the outcome, but no one made me, at least not in a sustained way.