Review: Douglas at the Daryl Roth Theatre
So you’re Hannah Gadsby. You’re a well-known Australian comedian with a ten-year track record, and then you do a show in which you publicly give up comedy. The piece zeroes ...
Review: The Way She Spoke at the Minetta Lane
The “way she spoke” is the way a mother pleads for the safety of her missing daughter; the “way she spoke” is the way an actress weeps as she reads ...
Review: Ain't Too Proud at Imperial Theatre
To date, there have been a total of twenty-four members of The Temptations; the greatest rhythm and blues group of Motown Records’ golden era. But Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and ...
Review: Bat Out of Hell at New York City Center
A good friend loves to remind me of a pure expression of astonishment he once witnessed on my face. It was at Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and it came ...
Review: Hadestown at Walter Kerr Theatre
At once contemporary and timeless, romantic without being sappy, sad but not macabre, Hadestown is a wonderful piece of work. The music swings as the songs cultivate real, moving drama ...
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Review: Love, Noël at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Irish Repertory Theatre
Weaving together Noël Coward's songs and letters, Irish Rep's cabaret piece is "unwaveringly affectionate" to the noted raconteur and capitalizes on his clever wordplay. Juliet Hindell reviews.
14 August
Features
The Trouble With Timbers
Can Alex Timbers find the heart in his shows? Joey Sims ponders Timbers' recent Broadway outings.
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Review: What We May Be at Berkshire Theatre Group
Berkshire Theatre Group
Cameron Kelsall is not complaining about Kathleen Clark's sweet-natured love letter to the ethos of community theater, featuring a star turn by Penny Fuller.
13 August
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Review: Before the Meeting at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Adam Bock, once again, finds the extraordinary within the ordinary in a world premiere at Williamstown. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
11 August
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Review: Ghosts at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Cameron Kelsall finds this Ibsen revival at Williamstown brings stale melodrama rather than shocking moral turpitude.
10 August
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Review: Bat Out of Hell at New York City Center
Our critic, Joey Sims, "Would Do Anything for Love"...of Lena Hall. She's currently playing a rock-belting mom in this logic-defying, over-the-top, damn good time of a musical.
9 August
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Exeunt Staff
A Contemplation of Design
Our critics share their thoughts and feelings about theater design.
Exeunt Staff
Exeunt NYC Recommends: Summer 2019
Forget the beach! There's plenty to see on and off Broadway this summer. Exeunt NYC's critics clue you in on the hottest openings between now and the end of August.
Patrick Maley
Dublin Saturday: A Day with Sean O’Casey
Three productions of Sean O'Casey's plays at the Irish Rep showcase his genius. Pat Maley soaks them all in in one day.
Exeunt Staff
Exeunt NYC Recommends: April
Daniel Fish and Heidi Schreck make it to Broadway, while Ivo van Hove and Enda Walsh take Brooklyn by storm. Our critics recommend all that and more this April.
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Review: Coriolanus at the Delacorte Theater
Delacorte Theater
Daniel Sullivan's near-future production allows this rarely performed Shakespeare play to show its political and kinda gay colors. Lane Williamson reviews.
8 August
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Review: Patience at Paradise Factory
Paradise Factory
Johnny G. Lloyd tests our ~patience~ with this play about solitaire champions. Joey Sims reviews.
2 August
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Review: Judy Doomed Us All at the New Ohio Theatre
New Ohio Theatre
Nancy Reagan and a tornado both descend on a small Kansas town, but only one of them causes destruction in Rat Queen Theatre Company's new play. Lane Williamson reviews.
2 August
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Review: Douglas at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Daryl Roth Theatre
What do you do after the show that blows up the very premises of your chosen art form? A show named after your dog, of course. Loren Noveck reviews.
27 July
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Exeunt NYC Recommends: March
Glenda Jackson's Lear, the latest from wunderkind Jeremy O. Harris, and the New York debut of Phoebe Waller-Bridge: all that and more are coming up this March.
13 February
Jess Barbagallo
Up in the Air with Bonnie’s Last Flight
Eliza Bent's audacious work embraces puns and play. With her new show taking flight this month, Jess Barbagallo observes and reports.
28 January
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Exeunt NYC Recommends: February
New musicals arrive on Broadway, a neglected Swedish master gets his due, and Dionysus becomes Diane. All that and more this February in New York!
21 January
Nicole Serratore
Review Round-Up: An Exponential Festival Sampler
At the 4th annual Exponential Festival, Nicole Serratore finds frequent laughs and is only mildly hostile about taking off her shoes.