Critics have no relevance today. Not one reads them. They can't kill a show like they once could. Audiences will see what they want and to hell with critics. And that its why garbage runs for years. Audiences have plebian taste.
You people do realize it's crap like this nonsense that put Trump in office-- and keep the snowflake silliness up and he will be your president again come 2020.
To get back to the topic: The understudy was not very good last week. Still having a little trouble with lines. The play is preposterous and hits a person over the head with a sledgehammer with its "relevant" message about straight white men. Yet, it is not boring and the actors playing the three sons (although dealing with roles that are so removed from reality) are quite good. Hard to recommend but if you find yourself in the theater, it's only 90 minutes, but
STRAIGHT WHITE MEN Previews Jul 8
2018, 06:21:53 AM
The play is a mess. Not a bore, but sloppily written and unbelievable.
What's wrong with Broadway? May 10
2018, 04:12:26 PM
Face it , folks, the musical is a dead art form. Enjoy the corpses littering midtown.
The theater is dead when it cannot support anything but big, bloated, vulgar musicals. Theater is dead. Sorry.
.Ooh Harry Potter! Ooh Donna Summer! Ooh The Cher Show! Ooh the Go-Gos
D. E. A. D. Enjoy the ashes.
The Cher Show Apr 8
2018, 02:53:12 PM
The theater is dead when it no longer adds anything valuable to our culture. Purchasing tickets indicates nothing except profits for producers.
I also saw the St. Joan at Shaw Festival last season, and it was sensational. i don't intend to see this production, but after seeing the set, which seems a bit bloated and overwhelming, perhaps MTC should have just imported the play from Canada.
To be kind: It needs a lot of work. Too long. Too much superfluous tapping. In fact, it's endless. (Why do male dancers carry women in on chairs at a couple of points in act two for no earthly reason. If it has something to do with "Let's put on a show" concept, it ain't working.) Act 2 is long and deadly dull. SO MUCH unnecessary dancing around doors.
Direction is unfocused. (Or is it the book?) Sometimes you can't distinguish w
