review website

[NBRISBY]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:42pm

Is there a website where I can read old reviews/notices of older shows? I know the NY Times has a webpage dedicated to older reviews...are there any others anyone knows about? Particularly interested in reading reviews of the original Dreamgirls and the original West Side Story.

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:44pm

You can always archive on Broadway.com, Playbill.com, Theatremania.com or Broadwaytalk.com

[tthomas76]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 5:05pm

I've always had the best of luck looking at Theatremania.com's

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 5:15pm

Broadway.com gives you excerpts from a number of reviews.

[temms]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 5:54pm

It's not online, but the best resource for old reviews is probably at your local library, wherever you may be. There is a set of big, red leather-bound volumes in the reference section called the "New York Drama Critics Reviews" and they have reprints of every major print review (and transcripts of some radio and television reviews) for all Broadway and major off-Broadway openings, grouped by year, going back to the early part of the twentieth century.

Beware - once you discover them, they can eat up a LOT of your time. I know they have a set at the Lincoln Center Library, but I'm not sure exactly where they are located (haven't used them in a while.)