Category: Drama
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p4: Broadway Plays
I usually focus on seeing Broadway musicals over plays, mainly for the spectacle, but also because Broadway plays seem to offer less bang for the many bucks you spend. But these three were the highlights of my trip.
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p1: Off-Broadway Plays
Of the three Off-Broadway plays I saw, there was a real mix of quality and a range of very famous names. It certainly was interesting…
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Snakeface (Belvoir 25a) ★★★½
This is a voice I want to hear more from.
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Dear Elena Sergeevna (Old Fitz) ★★★★
Dear Elena Sergeevna puts the focus on the actors to bring this 80s Russian moral drama to the small stage. It’s thrilling.
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Amber (Old Fitz) ★★★½
Amber is a rom-com, and like all the best rom-coms, it sneaks in some darker material on the way to its HEA (or HFN, at least).
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The Player Kings (Seymour) ★★★★½
This isn’t “eating your theatrical vegetables,” but a lavish degustation menu of Shakespearean delights.
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The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble) ★★★½
Director Liesel Badorrek’s new production pushes against the play’s expected structure and text to bring the “memory play” to the stage with a fresh twist.
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Honour (Red Stitch) ★★★½
It’s sadly a “tale as old as time”: a middle-aged man leaves his family for a younger woman.
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Truth (Malthouse) ★★★½
We’re not here to debate Assange but to venerate him.
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Never Have I Ever (Melbourne Theatre Co) ★★★★
Four friends meet up in a restaurant for dinner and an awkward conversation.
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