Matt Windman

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Theater Critic at amNewYork METRO

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Articles

NYC Theater Preview: Spring & Summer 2025

1 week ago | danspapers.com | Matt Windman |Shoshanna McCollum

Summer may not be New York’s peak theater season, but this year, it’s making a serious play for attention with the long-awaited reopening of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park following major renovations, the return of Mamma Mia!, and stage appearances by Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, John Krasinski, and Maya Hawke.
NYC Theater Preview: Spring & Summer 2025

1 week ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Matt Windman |Shoshanna McCollum

By Matt Windman 5 minute 04/16/2025 “Mamma Mia!” returns for a six-month stint at the Winter Garden Theatre. Summer may not be New York’s peak theater season, but this year, it’s making a serious play for attention with the long-awaited reopening of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park following major renovations, the return of Mamma Mia!, and stage appearances by Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, John Krasinski, and Maya Hawke.
Review | John Proctor is the Villain: Salem’s hero gets #MeToo’d

1 week ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

What if what you were taught about Arthur Miller’s 1953 witch hunt tragedy “The Crucible” wasn’t exactly wrong but was incomplete, or at the very least, overdue for reexamination? That’s the provocative question at the heart of “John Proctor is the Villain,” an emotionally charged, youth-driven, and unapologetically female-centered dark comedy by Kimberly Belflower.
Review | Smash: From bombshell to bomb

1 week ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

Well, this wasn’t the plan. Back when NBC’s “Smash” aired in 2012 and 2013, it seemed only a matter of time before “Bombshell”—the fictional Marilyn Monroe bio-musical at the heart of the series—would make the leap from screen to stage. And why not? With a brassy and fizzy score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (“Hairspray,” “Catch Me If You Can”), and the allure of Marilyn’s tragic glamour, “Bombshell” felt like a natural candidate for Broadway.
Review | Old Friends: You could drive a person crazy (with another Sondheim revue)

2 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

Since the death of Stephen Sondheim at age 91 in 2021, the legendary composer and lyricist has remained a dominant presence on New York stages—with Broadway revivals of “Into the Woods,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Company,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “Gypsy,” and the Off-Broadway debut of his final musical, “Here We Are.” Amid this welcome wave of tribute, “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a new Sondheim revue presented by Cameron Mackintosh and Manhattan Theatre Club, lands on Broadway not with a...
Review | ‘Boop! The Musical’: Boop-Oop-a-Don’t

2 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

You’d think a Betty Boop musical would be a no-brainer. A classic animated icon, Jazz Age flair, Broadway razzle-dazzle — what could go wrong? A lot, apparently. After more than two decades of development — with talents like Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lippa, and David Lindsay-Abaire once attached — “Boop! The Musical” has finally landed on Broadway. And the result is polished, peppy, and painfully underwhelming.
Review | ‘The Last Five Years’ is a relationship told in reverse — and a production that’s just regressive | amNewYork

2 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

After more than two decades of Off-Broadway runs, regional and college stagings, concert performances, and a film adaptation, Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years” has finally arrived on Broadway—this time with Nick Jonas as Jamie and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren (“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”) as Cathy.
Review | ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’: George Clooney’s broadcast from the past and warning for today

2 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

Even in a Broadway season crowded with celebrity vehicles, none arrive with quite the same urgency or political charge as “Good Night, and Good Luck.” George Clooney’s long-awaited Broadway debut is both an event and a provocation: a theatrical adaptation of the 2005 film he co-wrote and directed, now updated for the stage and, unmistakably, for the moment. Clooney, who portrayed CBS News producer Fred Friendly in the film, now steps into the lead role of Edward R.
Review | Starry ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival seals the bleepin’ deal

3 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

Oscar-winning actor Kieran Culkin and Emmy-winning actor Bob Odenkirk in the revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” on Broadway. David Mamet is back again with a starry Broadway revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” his 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning profanity-laced dark comedy about an unscrupulous pack of Chicago real estate salesmen, following earlier revivals in 2005 (with Alan Alda, Liev Schreiber, and Jeffrey Tambor) and 2012 (with Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, and Richard Schiff).
Review | ‘Vanya’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ push the boundaries—and limits—of solo theater | amNewYork

3 weeks ago | amny.com | Matt Windman

The solo show, long a fixture of experimental and autobiographical theater, is currently getting a prestige makeover, with two well-known foreign actors each taking on a canonical text from the late 19th century and portraying all of its characters, including Andrew Scott in “Vanya” (adapted from Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy “Uncle Vanya”) and Sarah Snook in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (a dramatization of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 gothic thriller novel).