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Deadline‘Wanted’ Broadway Review: Historical Musical Plays With Gospel Truthhttps://deadline.com/2026/11/wanted-musical-broadway-review-1237214464/"The new musical Wanted has had a long road to the Broadway stage, stretching over a 12-year stop-and-start development process or, if you want to get picky, more than 100 years of real-life (more or less) family lore. The end result is spirited but uneven, a show wherein some very big singin

Variety‘Wanted’ Broadway Review: Dazzling Cast Can’t Elevate the Musical’s Muted Narrativehttps://variety.com/2026/legit/reviews/wanted-broadway-review-1236941816/"Though the narrative isn’t particularly distinct, especially since the central plot largely focuses on the sisters finding love rather than their outlaw status or the true costs of passing, the show’s vocal talent is beyond exceptional. Ledisi, LaFon

The Wrap ‘Wanted’ Broadway Review: These 2 Bandits Are No Bonnie and ClydeThe real-life, gun-slinging Mary and Martha Clarke are too nice to be believed in this new musicalhttps://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/theater/wanted-broadway-review/""Beyond the show’s two maids, the most riveting aspect of “Wanted” is the sly way in which Pfeiffer’s Mary goes from real gold digger to committed lover

B+ from Entertainment Weeklyhttps://ew.com/wanted-review-gunslinging-sisters-take-broadway-by-storm-in-powerhouse-musical-12243698"Wanted is the kind of show happy to let its company members belt, just for the hell of it. It’s steadfast in celebrating and brandishing the onstage talent, wielding them for pleasure and pride. Everyone not only delivers, but has a hell of a time doing it. It’s not your typical Wester

NY Daily NewsBROADWAY REVIEW: : ‘Wanted’ musical misses the mark with Act II moralizinghttps://www.nydailynews.com/2026/11/08/broadway-review-wanted-musical/

The GuardianWanted review – generic crime musical lacks outlaw gritJames Earl Jones theatre, New York CityA ‘mostly true’ tale of 19th-century sisters running from the law is underserved in a production stuffed with superfluous showboating 2 starshttps://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/nov/09/wanted-broadway-musical-review

NY Stage ReviewWanted: Two Sisters Carry a Gun Across TexasBy Michael SommersNovember 8, 2026★★★☆☆ Heavenly choral singing elevates an aspirational musical with vocal fireworkshttps://nystagereview.com/2026/11/08/wanted-two-sisters-carry-a-gun-across-texas/ Wanted: A Musical Shootout with Serious Vocal FirepowerBy Roma TorreNovember 8, 2026★★★☆☆ An ambitiously flawed production that&

Rouleau just announced his departure.https://www.instagram.com/nicrouleau/p/DffPIgGIISs/

The Wrap‘The Imaginary Invalid’ Broadway Review: Bill Irwin Loses Something in TranslationAfter playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the actor writes himself a role that too infrequently produces much laughterhttps://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/theater/the-imaginary-invalid-broadway-review-bill-irwin/"this revival of “The Imaginary Invalid,” which

Deadline‘The Imaginary Invalid’ Broadway Review: Molière Gets Clowned By A Winning Bill Irwinhttps://deadline.com/2026/10/the-imaginary-invalid-broadway-review-bill-irwin-1237169589/"At its frequent best (and as directed by Brandon J. Dirden), this take is lots of fun. The plot, though streamlined, is accented with some verbal modernisms in keeping with that reclining easy chair, as if slipped in to keep things

Time OutBroadway review: The Imaginary Invalid gasps for MolièreBill Irwin and Rachel Bloom star in an effortful stab at French comedy.https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/broadway-review-the-imaginary-invalid-gasps-for-moliere-102326"This should be a cakewalk for Irwin, a supremely gifted clown; instead, it feels rushed and fumbled (and mumbled). Irwin contorts his face into multiple comic grimaces throug

NY Post1 and 1/2 star‘The Imaginary Invalid’ review: Unfunny Molière revival on Broadway makes you scream ‘Sacré bleu!’https://nypost.com/2026/10/22/entertainment/the-imaginary-invalid-review-unfunny-moliere-revival-on-broadway-makes-you-scream-sacre-bleu/"For the first hour or so of the French classique, there were barely even an

The Imaginary Invalid: Just What the Doctor OrderedBy Melissa Rose Bernardo★★★★☆ Molière’s final play gets a lively, luxe-looking 90-minute adaptation by its star, Tony winner Bill Irwinhttps://nystagereview.com/2026/10/22/the-imaginary-invalid-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/

NYT Critic's Pick from ShawReview: A Sparkling ‘Imaginary Invalid’ Is the Cure for What Ails YouBill Irwin, who may well be our greatest living clown, stars in his own adaptation of Molière’s 1673 play about a domineering hypochondriac paterfamilias."Dirden’s exquisite production, though, is both amusing and wise. They will tell you at the door that it takes 90 minutes, but rea

LA Times echoes most of the other reviews (with too much plot summary). Says Keery is the best performanceJulia Louis-Dreyfus debuts on Broadway in a milder, less impactful ‘Other Desert Cities’https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-10-19/other-desert-cities-review-julia-louis-dreyfus-debuts-broadway"In the toned-down revival at the Hudson Theatre, John Benjamin Hickey tr

Play Esq. said: "Times?? Keep refreshing but nothing there. So far I think the Post (of all groups…) and Time Out kind of nailed it, and I was a little surprised by the Guardian's enthusiasm. The Hollywood groups are not surprisingly generous."I don't think all the Hollywood groups were all that generous. The Hollywood Reporter review was very much not (and very accurate about both the play, this production's failure with it, and the cast, IMO). "This Other Desert Cities, directed by John Ben...

As usual, Holdren is a vital read, well-written even if I don't necessarily agree with everything she's saying. In the Previews thread, a few posters (who haven't seen this production) were arguing that it's wrong to call the play dated, but Holdren makes a persuasive case that it very much is. She has little use for it."Baitz’s play trafficks in the kind of humor that we’ve finally started, in the past decade and a half

Reading Shaw's review, I feel like while her tone is overly generous, most of her actual comments are on target (except when she says the play is set in 2003; it's Christmas 2004). I agree with the entire paragraph about how the set is too big and the strangely frontal staging (which I'd struggled to describe, and she has succinctly), and how Rabe, who is giving a performance that matches the play as written, hasn't calibrated her performance to what the others on stage are doing and giving h...

I went looking for the radio play on Youtube mentioned above, and got waylaid by all the promotional videos for various productions over the years. It really jumped out at me how much better those sets were than in the current one. In the original production the set was fairly circular or rounded, and most of the videos show sets where the furniture is at angles, or the living room set is, which give them dimension.One thing that bothered me about the set in this production is how horizontal ...

A more salient question may be why anyone who's been here longer than a minute hasn't blocked them long ago, or bothers responding to them (and quoting them). Long before BroadwayFlash, MezzoDiva, or any of their ilk, that person was the first poster I blocked on this site. Their entire shtick is being rude and snide, and I'd never seen them make a constructive or informative post on these boards (every time I see them being quoted after I blocked them, it's yet another nasty comment). I can ...