Aaron Sorkin’s new Camelot has nothing to say
Scenes are rushed and hidden — and in the end, the musical is empty
Broadway
Thursday
Sunday
Bringing back Stephen Sondheim and enduring a new Andrew Lloyd Webber
Bad Cinderella is a pumpkin, while Parade becomes an exercise in emotional torture porn
Thursday
Broadway brings back Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
The first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Monday
& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
Wednesday
The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater
It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
Thursday
An unapologetically Jewish Fiddler on the Roof returns to New York
The production balanced the conviction that forward is always best
Wednesday
Baldwin and Buckley clash on the New York stage
The play succeeds in affirming a certain anti-liberalism
Thursday
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Thursday
Throwing curveballs
Race and sex in Paradise Square and Take Me Out
Monday
Midcult madness
The Music Man and Plaza Suite reviewed
Thursday
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Thursday
Broadway’s back(side)
Six and Chicken & Biscuits reviewed
Wednesday
Meet the real-life gangsters who inspired Guys and Dolls
The musical premiered on Broadway 70 years ago this week
