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THE IMAGINARY INVALID reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:36:06 PM

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

THE IMAGINARY INVALID reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:34:45 PM

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

THE IMAGINARY INVALID reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:31:50 PM

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

THE IMAGINARY INVALID reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:25:11 PM

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 reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:24:23 PM

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/

THE IMAGINARY INVALID reviews (Haimes) Irwin, Bloom, Ashmanskas

Oct 22, 2026 — 10:18:33 PM

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

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 19, 2026 — 3:00:49 PM

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

Re: Other Desert Cities reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 19, 2026 — 7:56:04 AM

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...

Re: Other Desert Cities reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 19, 2026 — 7:47:34 AM

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

Re: Other Desert Cities reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 19, 2026 — 7:22:45 AM

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...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 16, 2026 — 5:07:20 PM

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 ...

Re: A FEW GOOD MEN Previews

Oct 15, 2026 — 7:43:04 PM

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 ...

Jennifer Simard Opens Up About ‘Life-Saving Surgery’ She Underwent After Years of Suffering in Silence (PEOPLE Mag)

Oct 12, 2026 — 8:32:44 AM

As soon as I saw the headline yesterday, I remembered the constant b*tching in the DBH thread about her (and Hilty's) absences, and how they should be replaced if they couldn't show up to their jobs, and that everyone (or at least gossips on message boards) were owed explanations. Sorry to read that any of that got back to her.https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/DEATH-BECOMES-HER-Reviews/27

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 9, 2026 — 10:59:20 AM

Not arguing in favor of Hickey's direction by any means. I took issue with the staging in my long, rambling review and certainly could have said more. Just noting that it's not simply a matter of thinking someone else should have been hired if the production started with him. No one else could have been hired; it's his production (for better or worse).

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 9, 2026 — 9:36:22 AM

My understanding is that Hickey is the one who initiated the revival and assembled the cast. This wasn't a case of producers starting with the property and/or cast and then looking for a director (a la Audra's Gypsy). This article kind of says it, but I'm sure I read an interview with Baitz that says Hickey pitched it to him.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 6, 2026 — 5:47:53 PM

I saw this last week and have been working out my thoughts.I waited to buy in hopes of getting a front orchestra seat, but when those were finally released, they were insanely expensive. But on the day before, the prices of the remaining tickets apparently go down (dynamic pricing taketh away, and sometimes dynamic pricing giveth) so I was able to get a single close front orchestra ticket that started at $799+ for about $400. I let myself buy one expensive ticket per year, so that was it.If y...

Re: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING Reviews

Oct 5, 2026 — 11:29:14 PM

A quick check of the comments on Playbill's Instagram story on this shows that plenty of people are not happy about it, and know exactly what the producers are doing. They are determined to deny Asian actors these roles (and if the authorial intent is racist, trying to justify something as what the authors intend doesn't matter. It's racist). Going straight to replacing an Asian lead with a white guy drew too much attention, so they're going with another, non-Asian minority to make it somethi...

Re: The Official TDF Thread

Oct 5, 2026 — 3:27:59 PM

Downstate is on regular TDF. I hadn't seen it there before.

Re: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING Reviews

Oct 1, 2026 — 1:42:13 PM

I'm not familiar with her. Is she a draw or someone who would sell tickets? I see she has 725k followers on Instagram, so she must have a following.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 1, 2026 — 9:03:57 AM

Auggie27 said: ". I consider Rabe's role the trickiest, with the biggest journey (it's arguably her play, ultimately). Assuming Rabe has nailed it, but would be intrigued to hear more on her approach."I've always thought so too, about it being Brooke's play, and Elizabeth Marvel's performance from the original production is what I remember most. Because of that, it initially struck me as a bit odd to see Rabe billed last on the posters the first time I saw it, since she really is the lead, or...

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