Theater review FLOYD COLLINS Two hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission. At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street. “Floyd Collins” is a story split in two. There’s the claustrophobic and cold Kentucky cave where the title spelunker, played by a golden-voiced Jeremy Jordan, becomes trapped after the rocks around him collapse. Then, … Read more
Theater review JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN One hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission. At the Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street. The loud title of the Broadway play “John Proctor is the Villain” reads like the rare high-school essay that wasn’t written hours before it’s due. It’s a smart and edgy thesis about … Read more
Theater review SMASH Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street. “Let’s Be Bad” is a song from the Broadway musical “Smash.” It is also the production’s motto. The total absence of taste begins before you even enter the theater, with the title emblazoned on the marquee. … Read more
Theater review OLD FRIENDS Two hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission. At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street. When Bernadette Peters elegantly opens her umbrella in the new Stephen Sondheim revue “Old Friends,” she’s becoming Dot, the Georges Seurat muse she famously played in “Sunday in the Park with George.” But … Read more
Theater review BOOP Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street. She may be playing a two-dimensional character, but she’s one heck of a triple threat. That’s Jasmine Amy Rogers, the 25-year-old actress who’s making a marvelous Broadway debut in “Boop,” the musical comedy at the Broadhurst Theatre. … Read more
Theater review THE LAST FIVE YEARS 90 minutes, with no intermission. At the Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street. “The Last Five Years,” composer Jason Robert Brown’s downer story of a failed marriage, has always been an unsatisfying musical. Yes, legions cherish Brown’s 24-year-old pop-rock tunes like “I Can Do Better Than That” and “Moving … Read more
Theater review GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK One hour and 45 minutes with no intermission. At the Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway. “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the play that opened Thursday at the Winter Garden Theatre, is a big story with a huge set and an enormous star. So it comes as a surprise … Read more
Theater review GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS One hour and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Palace Theatre, 160 West 47th Street. David Mamet’s classic line “Coffee is for closers only” isn’t actually uttered in his play “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Alec Baldwin says it only in the movie. However, the underpowered revival of the show at the … Read more
Theater review THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Two hours with no intermission. At the Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th Street. What could be more vain than a 15-foot-tall image of an actor’s face onstage glaring at you? How about a high-definition video screen? And not one, but five of them — all for one person? In … Read more
Theater review OPERATION MINCEMEAT Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street. Like any Broadway show, the musical “Operation Mincemeat” sells merchandise and drinks at intermission. Might I also suggest Adderall? The madcap World War II comedy from London, which opened Thursday night at the Golden Theatre, … Read more
Theater review BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission. At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W 45th St. “Buena Vista Social Club,” the new musical that opened Wednesday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is practically a jumbo jet to Havana. So transportive are the intoxicating Cuban music and spirited … Read more
Theater review PURPOSE Two hours and 50 minutes, with one intermission. At the Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street. Plays about families coming home — and coming to blows — are a workhorse of American drama. The dinner-table clashes are reliably entertaining, easy to connect to and, you’d think, totally wrung-out by now. How can … Read more
“Othello” opens next Sunday on Broadway. But The Post has decided to review the show a week early after the production rescinded critic Johnny Oleksinski’s ticket because he wrote a column blasting their $921 prices. That’s OK. We bought our own. Theater review OTHELLO Two hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission. 243 W. 47th … Read more
Theater review A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Two hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. At BAM, 651 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, through April 6. Audiences are boarding “A Streetcar Named Desire” — or, rather, a train called Q — in droves to experience “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal onstage in Brooklyn. And, as brutish Stanley … Read more
Theater review ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE One hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. At the Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street. Through Feb. 16. The phrase “all in” probably summons flop-sweat memories of putting every one of your chips on the poker table. Well, at the Broadway show “All In: Comedy About Love,” … Read more
Theater review GYPSY Three hours, with one intermission. At the Majestic Theatre, <br>245 W. 44th St. “Gypsy” is, by the estimation of many — including me — the greatest musical ever written. But you wouldn’t know it from the slow and unsteady revival starring Audra McDonald that opened Thursday at the Majestic Theatre. The quintessentially … Read more
Theater review THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Two and a half hours, with one intermission. At the Dominion Theatre in London. LONDON — That’s all? I wish. “The Devil Wears Prada,” Elton John’s horrid musical that crashed and burned two years ago in Chicago, is giving it a second go in London. But you know the … Read more
Theater review DEATH BECOMES HER Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th Street. There is a miracle elixir in the campy musical “Death Becomes Her,” which opened Thursday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. I don’t mean the nuclear-pink liquid that offers eternal youth in exchange for becoming … Read more
“Tammy Faye” has fallen harder than, well, Tammy Faye. Elton John’s dreadful new Broadway musical about 1970s and ‘80s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker posted its closing notice on Tuesday — just five days after it opened at the Palace Theatre. “Tammy Faye” was reportedly capitalized at $25 million, and will lose every penny. When the … Read more
Theater review SWEPT AWAY 90 minutes, with no intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th Street. Something I won’t be saying on my death bed: “I wish I would’ve watched more shows about boats.” Yet another crew of singing seafarers sets off in the Avett Brothers’ uneven “Swept Away,” which opened Tuesday night at … Read more