Sara Holdren

2 weeks ago | tdf.org | Sara Holdren

Catch plays starring John Krasinski, Liev Schreiber, Maya Hawke, Reed Birney and more ---A new solo show featuring John Krasinski as a charming but angry man. Liev Schreiber in a rarely revived Strindberg play. Maya Hawke in Sarah Ruhl's radical reimagining of Eurydice and Reed Birney in a new play by a Pulitzer Prize winner. These are just some of the promising productions opening Off Broadway in May.

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Sara Holdren

The new musical Real Women Have Curves is, on the whole, a vibrant, exuberant affair, soaked in the pink and gold of L.A. sunsets, with painterly projections of tropical blossoms regularly unfurling across its proscenium in such verdant profusion you can practically smell their perfume. Yet surrounded by all this lushness, the show’s darkest, grayest moments are some of its most striking.

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Sara Holdren

The exclamation mark really is the giveaway. In the making of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet. Musical nuance and lyrical wit have become, in most cases, broadfaced vaudevillian mugging; anything originally written with a wry wink or a satirical flourish now comes along with the tonal equivalent of a drum sting and jazz hands.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Sara Holdren

It’s very metal what they did: Stranger Things comes to Broadway. The London-born small-screen-to-big-stage techapalooza Stranger Things: The First Shadow couldn’t have landed at a more appropriate Broadway theater. On the third floor of the Marriott right off Times Square, the Marquis already feels like an entertainment-palace Experience™ — the kind of venue where a romantasy con, a ritzy corporate retreat, or a Jimmy Buffett brand extension would be equally at home.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Sara Holdren

From Floyd Collins, at the Vivian Beaumont. There are moments of stillness in Floyd Collins that are unquestionably beautiful. Tina Landau — coauthor of the musical with composer Adam Guettel, directing its first New York revival since its Off Broadway premiere in 1996 — knows how to space bodies across a stage.