B'way/Off-Bway Update: Roundabout 2026-27 Season Bill Irwin will star in The Imaginary Invalid for Roundabout. Under the new leadership of incoming artistic director Christopher Ashley, Rou...

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On the David Desk blog: Roundabout Theatre Company announces its 2027-27 season.

B'way/Off-B'way Reviews: The Fear of 13; Becky Shaw; You Got Older; My Joy Is Heavy Adrian Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13 . Credit: Emilio Madrid The fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia. But you wouldn’t l...

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On the David Desk: my reviews of The Fear of 13, Becky Shaw, You Got Older and My Joy Is Heavy.

B'way Review: Titanique; Cats: The Jellicle Ball The cast of Titanique . Credit: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade. “This is where the story gets kooky crazy,” announces Marla Mindelle as a koo...

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My reviews of Titanique and Cats: The Jelllicle Ball are on the David Desk blog.

B'way Review: Death of a Salesman Laurie Metcalf and Nathan Lane in Death of a Salesman . Credit: Emilio Madrid The most fascinating element of Joe Mantello’s innovative and ...

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My review of Death of a Salesman is on the David Desk blog.

Those are the choices??? What a croc.

Mexodus and Prince Faggot Top Lortel List Nygel D. Robinson and Brian Quijada   in Mexodus.  Credit: Curtis Brown Theater award season has officially begun with the announcement of t...

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On the David Desk: Mexodus and Prince Faggot lead Lortel list.

And she gets yoga and puppy time.

I thought the judge said Congress had to approve.

You’re going to have to explain further. why is it terrible? Why are they bad people!

B'way Review: Dog Day Afternoon, Giant Jon Bernthal, Danny Johnson, and  Jessica Hecht in Dog Day Afternoon . Credit: Matthew Muprhy, Evan Zimmerman Two new Broadway plays are set...

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My reviews of Dog Day Afternoon and Giant are now on the David Desk 2 blog.

Off-B'way Review: Public Charge Zabryna Guevara in Public Charge . Credit: Joan Marcus Though Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga’s Public Charge (fittingly at the Publ...

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My review of Public Charge is now on the David Desk blog.

Off-B'way Review: What We Did Before Our Moth Days Hope Davis, Josh Hamilton, Maria Dizzia, and John Early in What We Did Before Our Moth Days. Credit: Julieta Cervantes Wallace Shawn continu...

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My review of Wallace Shawn’s What We Did Before Our Moth Days is now on the David Desk blog.

Why is there a picture of Uncle Fester instead of Capt. Kirk?

Off-B'way Review: Cold War Choir Practice; Bigfoot, A New Musical; Chinese Republicans Alana Raquel Bowers, Andy Lucien, and Crystal Finn in Cold War Choir Practice. Credit: Maria Baranova That distinctly weird, transitional de...

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On the David Desk: reviews of Cold War Choir Practice, Bigfoot and Chinese Republics.

Love Dorothy Malone crying on the oil well.

B'way/Off-B'way Update: MTC; Wanted Musical School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play at MCC Theater. Credit: Craig Schwartz Manhattan Theater Club has announced two productions for ...

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On the David Desk blog: MTC announces 2 shows for 26-27 and Wanted musical will play the James Earl Jones.

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My reviews of every Brilliant Thing Bughouse and Burnout Paradise are now on Theaterlife.com.

Off-Broadway Reviews: Antigone (This Play I Read in High School); Marcel on the Train Celia Keenan-Bolger and Susannah Perkins in Antigone (This Play I Read in High School). Credit: Joan Marcus There have been numerous attempt...

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On the David DesK: my reviews of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) and Marcel on the Train.

B'way Update: Much Ado About Nothing Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, and company in Jamie Lloyd's staging of Much Ado About Nothing . Credit: Marc Brenner Tony nominee Tom Hiddle...

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On the David Desk: Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell to star in Much Ado About Nothing on Bway this fall.

Off-B'way Review: The Monsters; High Spirits Aigner Mizzelle and Okieriete Onaodowan in The Monsters . Credit: T. Charles Erickson The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters at...

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On the David Desk: My reviews of The Monsters and High Spirits Both are at City Center.

B'way Update: Galileo Musical Raul Esparza in Galileo: A Rock Musical  at Berkeley Rep. Credit: Kevin Berne According to Playbill.com, Galileo , a rock musical based on t...

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On the David Desk: Raul Esparza to star in a rock musical on Galileo

Off-B'way Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Credit: Joan Marcus In a program interview, director-choreographer Danny Mefford rev...

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My review of the 25th Putnam County SpIlling Bee is now on the David Desk 2 blog.

Hard pass!

Off-B'way Review: Ulysses The company of Ulysses . Credit: Joan Marcus The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as F...

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My review of Ulysses, Elevator Repair Service’s adaptation of James Joyce’s classic novel is on the David Desk blog.

Batman Humor That Went Over My Head as a Kid, Part 4 Catwoman is about to steal Chad and Jeremy's voices. Notice how they could just walk right on stage with no one to to stop them. The Cat's M...

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On the David Desk blog: more Batman humor that went over my head as a kid.

Off-B'way Review: Data Sophia Lillis, Karan Brar, and Justin H. Min in Data . Credit: T. Charles Erickson Matthew Libby’s Data could have easily become like one o...

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My review of Data is n the David Desk blog.

Sinners Shatters Oscar Nom Record Michael B. Jordan and Miles Caton in Sinners , which now holds the record for the most Oscar noms with 16. Credit: Warner Brothers Sinners ,...

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On the David Desk blog: Sinners shatters Oscar noms record with 16.

InterviewEd her for my book on George C Scott. She was very helpful and gracious.

I met him when was in Joe turner on Broadway in 1988. Excellent performance.

Off-B'way Review: An Ark An Ark. Credit: Marc J. Franklin Billed as a “new play with mixed reality,” Simon Stephens’ An Ark begs the questions “Is it theater?” and “...

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On the David Desk my review of An Ark the new play with mixed reality.