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‘Appropriate’ Review: When Daddy Dies, a Disturbing Inheritance
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
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‘Appropriate’ Review: When Daddy Dies, a Disturbing Inheritance
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Review: Bringing a Classic Record to Life
A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: In ‘How to Dance in Ohio,’ Making Autism Sing
A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: How Alicia Keys Got Her Groove
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Spamalot’ Review: You’ll Laugh in Its General Direction
In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both?
The transcendent Dianne Wiest stars in an absurd yet poignant new play about a 75-year-old woman who sets out to be a star.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs
The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘I Can Get It for You Wholesale’ Review: Rag Trade Revival, Recut for Today
A story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: In ‘Stereophonic,’ the Rock Revolution Will Be Recorded
David Adjmi’s riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a ’70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic
This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ Review: Revenge of the Broadway Nerds
The history of movable type is a terrible idea for a show. Which is why it’s so on brand for this satire of theater and its eternal hopefuls.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: At ‘Jaja’s,’ Where Everybody Knows Your Mane
Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Swing State’ Review: All Is Not Well in Wisconsin
Rebecca Gilman’s play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans’ interdependence in the death of wildflowers.
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