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"The Last Revue" Isn't Perfect. Go Anyway.
Three and a half stars, and I mean every one of them. "The Last Revue" at the Aldridge Theatre is the kind of show that trips over its own ambition for ninety minutes and then, in the second act
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Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Perihelion" Is the Rock Musical You've Been Waiting For (Mostly)
The sound that comes out of Zola Echeverría's mouth in the second act of "Perihelion" is not singing.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Maravilla" Is the Star Vehicle Broadway Needed This Season
Camille Dorset is going to win something for this. I don't know which award and I don't care which award, but the performance she delivers in "Maravilla" at the Brennan Theatre is the kind that gets
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial reviewCelestine Mbaye Is the Reason "The Copper Wheel" Exists
The Carrington hasn't buzzed like this in three seasons. "The Copper Wheel," Fenwick Colbourne's 1973 musical about labor and longing in a Pittsburgh steel town, never got the revival it deserved
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Glass Meridian" Is Something You Will Not Forget
The Sager Theatre has not felt this alive in three seasons. That is the first thing to say about "The Glass Meridian," Yael Nordstrom's new musical, and it is not a soft compliment.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial reviewGo See "Flood Light." Go Before the Rest of Broadway Notices.
"Flood Light" is the best new musical this Broadway season has produced. I am not hedging that sentence.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*Fever of Glass* Is the Real Thing — When It Lets Itself Be
Fever of Glass has one of the best second acts I've seen on a Broadway stage in three years.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Devotee" Earns Its Ovation — Eventually
The Cavendish crowd went quiet in Act Two on opening night. Not polite, well-behaved quiet — gone quiet, stopped-breathing quiet, the kind where you can hear the person next to you swallow.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Saltwater Gospel" Is Not Perfect. Go Anyway.
The second act of The Saltwater Gospel at the Meridian Theatre is the finest sustained forty-five minutes of new musical theater I have seen in two seasons.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*Cascade* Soars on Celestine Park's Career-Best Performance
Cascade is the real thing, and Celestine Park is going to be a star. The show opened at the Harriwell Theatre Friday night to an audience that arrived curious and left shaken — shaken in the good
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*Calle Oscura* Revival Proves It Was Always This Good
The revival of Calle Oscura at the Calderon Theatre is the production this show has been waiting thirty years to get.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Magdalena" Has One Perfect Act. That's Enough.
"Magdalena" is not quite great. It is close enough that the gap will drive you a little crazy — or past it entirely, depending on how much patience you're willing to bring to a first act that has not
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial reviewThe Ferryman's Daughter Delivers — In Act Two
This is a great musical that doesn't know it's great for the first forty minutes.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*Salt and Smoke* Gets Its Second Act Right. First Act: We Need to Talk.
"Salt and Smoke" is the best second act on Broadway right now, housed inside a first act that still hasn't decided what kind of show it wants to be.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review'Saltwater Gospel' Is the Score of the Season — Now Someone Fix the Book
Saltwater Gospel is the most exhilarating mess I've sat through in years, and I mean that as a fact, not a complaint.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*Before the Fall* Finally Gets the Revival It Earned
Before the Fall is the best musical most people under forty have never heard, and Domenica Vásquez's production at the Hargrove Theatre is the reason it finally gets to fix that.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review*The Burning Season* Is a Great Musical Carrying a Dead Weight
The Calloway is on fire right now, and most of that fire has a name: Esmeralda Voss.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Carry Me Quiet" Burns Bright Even When It Stumbles
Carry Me Quiet gets one thing exactly right and nearly ruins it trying to get everything else right too.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"North Wind" Almost Gets Away With It — And Then It Does
"North Wind" is a better musical than its first act deserves to be, and I say that with genuine respect for what Cressida Maye and Theo Ladd have built here.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Counterfeit Crown" Is the Summer's Most Uncomfortable Standing Ovation
Carmen Delgado on 'The Counterfeit Crown': a standing ovation the show earns, but doesn't fully deserve — and why that distinction is worth sitting with.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review'The Distance Home' Is the Musical This Season Deserved
The Distance Home is the real thing — a Broadway musical with something to say and the craft to say it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Glittering Dark" Is Almost Perfect — Almost
The Glittering Dark is a near-great musical carrying a genuinely great performance, and that gap is what I want to talk about.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial reviewRafaela Moreno Makes *Longitude* Worth Every Minute of Act One
Carmen Delgado on Rafaela Moreno's second-act turn in 'Longitude' — the best Broadway performance she's seen since the revival of Crescent House.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Runaground" Is the Bronx Musical Broadway Has Been Waiting For
Carmen Delgado on 'Runaground,' the real thing: a thundering new Bronx musical that earns its transfer to the Pemberton — no reservations, no asterisks.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"The Cartographer's Wife" Knows Where It's Going — Eventually
"The Cartographer's Wife" is a great musical trapped inside an adequate one, and the adequate one runs for about ninety minutes before the great one shows up.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"El Jardín de las Mariposas" Needs a Little More Wingspan
I’ve seen "El Jardín de las Mariposas," the new musical by Jorge Velásquez, twice now.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Growing Pains" Grows Up in a Thought-Provoking Teen Drama
Theater has long been an adult game, but with the arrival of "Growing Pains," written by debut playwright Aarushi Patel, there's a new force stepping onto the Off-Broadway stage.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial review"Riveted by 'Echoes of Yesterday': An Unmitigated Triumph"
Carmen Delgado on Marisol Vega's revival of 'Echoes of Yesterday' at the Regent Theatre — a production that doesn't just recreate a classic score, it reinvents it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial reviewA Doll's House Reimagined: Bold Concept, Wavering Execution
Carmen Delgado reviews the fictional Harlow Theater Company revival of A Doll's House, a bold reimagining that gets the big moments right and fumbles a few crucial ones.
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