Review Roundup: GARRY STARR: CLASSIC PENGUINS Opens Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview
The U.S. premiere of Garry Starr: Classic Penguins, written and performed by Damien Warren-Smith, is now playing at Studio Seaview. Read the reviews here!
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& Juliet
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6.8
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Buena Vista Social Club
8.6
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9.5
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Hadestown
8.2
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8.9
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8.9
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Oh, Mary!
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Operation Mincemeat
7.8
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Review Roundups
Review Roundup: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Arrives on Broadway
Are the critics screaming over the first play of the 2026/27 Broadway season? Paranormal Activity officially opened tonight at the August Wilson Theatre. The new play is written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett. Let's see what the critics are saying...
Review Roundup: BENEVOLENT Opens Off-Broadway
The World Premiere of benevolent by Sophie McIntosh, with Good Apples Collective, is officially open Off-Broadway. See what the critics are saying about the production in Broadwayworld's Review Roundup.
Review Roundup: THE WINTER'S TALE Opens as Part of Free Shakespeare in the Park
The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park is continuing with THE WINTER’S TALE at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park.The production will run through Sunday, August 23. Read the reviews here!
Review Roundup: GAME OF THRONES: THE MAD KING is Now Playing at The RSC
The reviews are in for Royal Shakespeare Company's world premiere of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones: The Mad King, a new play based on novels by George R. R. Martin. Read the reviews here!
Review Roundup: THE VESSEL Opens at 59E59 Theaters Off-Broadway
59E59 Theaters is presenting the world premiere of The Vessel, written by Brendan George. See what the critics are saying about the production in BroadwayWorld's REview Roundup.
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Review: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: GREATEST HITS at Music Box Lounge Hot Springs
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Review: THE NORWEGIANS at Shakespeare & Company
Murder-for-hire seems dark, and yes, some of the language can be a bit colorful (a few F-bombs are dropped), but really, this is a delightful little production with the emphasis on comedy that one might almost label as cute, possibly endearing.
Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Central Florida Vocal Arts
Central Florida Vocal Arts presents Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, featuring Emily Minch, Armon Flukers, Sabria Sego and Sean McKinley. The intimate production explores change, uncertainty and life’s defining moments through Brown’s distinctive score.
Review: EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE MOTHER at Phoenix Theatre
On the surface, it's a play about gay rights, but at its heart it's about supporting the people you love. Don’t discount the way you can change the world around you if you’re willing to fight for what you believe.
DUBLIN FRINGE 2026: Review: CRISIS ACTOR, Project Arts Centre
Eoghan Carrick and Lauren Jones turn Shakespeare's mirror inside out in a gripping investigation of crisis, staging, and modern paranoia.
Review: THE RECIPE BOX at Austin Rainbow Theatre
Del Shores serves up heartbreak, outrageous humor, and plenty of Southern charm in The Recipe Box, a moving story about losing the life you thought you had and discovering something unexpected in its place.
Review: KIM'S CONVENIENCE at Everyman Theatre
Kim’s Convenience, written by Ins Choi and directed by Cara Hinh is a deft comedy about a family that loves one another but doesn’t quite know how to talk to each another.
Review: MY BODY, MY CABARET at Green Room 42 Honors Reproductive Rights
The August 29 evening boasted an excellent mission to fundraise for New York State's abortion fund and Black Trans Liberation Kitchen. It featured a slew of strong performances, though the show as a whole could have benefitted from more structure
Review: DANCE LIKE A MAN at NCPA
A few days ago I caught the latest production of Dance Like A Man, an English drama by the Sahitya Akademi Award winner Mahesh Dattani, adapted for stage by The Primetime Theatre Co’s Lillette Dubey.
Review: GARBO: THE ACTOR WHO SAVED THE WORLD at GALA Hispanic Theatre
The world premiere production kicking off the 51st season at GALA Hispanic Theatre, “GARBO: The Actor Who Saved the World,” is not, it turns out, about Greta at all. Rather, it’s about somebody else far fewer people have heard of, who was working roughly the same time — World War II to be specific.
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Eight O'Clock Theatre
When 38 planes were grounded in Gander after 9/11, the small town didn't ask where the 7,000 strangers on those planes came from, what they believed, or who they voted for - they just opened their homes. Eight O'Clock Theatre's production doesn't sentimentalize that choice; it makes you feel how simple it actually was to make that decision. This is a musical not to be missed.
Review: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Keeps Enchanting with Revitalized North American Tour
There is a reason The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history. And now, San Diegans have a chance to see why.
Review: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at Alhambra Theatre And Dining
When I saw Saturday Night Fever on opening night, I knew I already had plans to go back and see the show a second time. I decided to hold my thoughts on the production until I saw it later in the run, for a second time.
Review: PRIVATE LIVES at The Schoolhouse Theater
Private Lives is Noël Coward’s finest comedy, originally written for himself and his close friend Gertrude Lawrence. After touring the British provinces, the play opened at London’s Phoenix Theatre in 1930, starring Coward, Lawrence, Adrianne Allen, and Laurence Olivier.
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Albuquerque Little Theater
Mean Girls kicked off the 97th Season at ALT, an enormous accomplishment and impressive feat, especially at a time when the arts, and theater in particular, are so vastly underfunded and rely heavily on the support of individual donors and community supporters.
Review: VAPE! A GREASE MUSICAL PARODY at The Apollo Theater
The Grease Parody musical shows love and respect to its imitation the best way it knows how — with creative commentary, meta music, and joyous jokes that are sure to make you chuckle, laugh, or anything in between.
Review: THE GUYS at Ironweed Productions At Teatro Paraguas
The story begins with Joan (Karen Leigh), a well to do mother and wife who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As she begins to tell her “where were you” account about that morning, I notice members of the audience nodding and nudging one another – if we were old enough to remember that day, we are all immediately back there.
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Musical Theatre Southwest
Come From Away is the true story of the 38 planes and their passengers that were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland the morning of September 11, 2001. The United States closed the airspace for the first time in history and all planes coming from Europe were forced to land in Gander, a town of about 9,000.
Review: Asararua’s RUMAH BONEKA and the Desperate Housewife
On August 22, the new community theater Teater Asarua put on a production of RUMAH BONEKA at Teater Bulungan as part of Festival Teater Jakarta Selatan. The script is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A DOLL’S HOUSE.
Review: KC Rep's COME FROM AWAY at Spencer Theatre
Kansas City Repertory Theater’s new production of “Come From Away” is top notch in every possible way. “Come From Away” is about how one remote Canadian town rallied in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America to embrace neighbors they could not have imagined they shared on the day before.
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