Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing, Hudson Theatre. Photo Matthew Murphy Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for me to write full reviews on everything I see. Here, then, are some shorter takes, euphoric, admiring, and otherwise. Innocence The Metropolitan Opera Innocence by Kaija Saariaho, libretto by Sofi Oksanen, directed by Simon Stone. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence is an extraord

Jon Bernthal as Sonny in Stephen Adly Guirgis's Dog Day Afternoon , directed by Rupert Goold, August Wilson Theatre. Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman The new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon  just opened on Broadway, directed by Rupert Goold, doesn’t seem sure who its target audience is. If you went not knowing the source material (though that’s hard to imagine)—Sidney Lumet’s classic 1975 film about a disastrously bungled bank heist, starring Al Pacino and John

Aya Cash as Jesse Stone and John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's Giant , directed by Nicholas Hytner. Photo: Joan Marcus. Mark Rosenblatt’s new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make Anti-Semitism Despicable Again. MADA baseball caps coming soon. You read it here first. The play, just opened on Broadway after much acclaimed London runs in 2024 and 2025, is about the venomous, defiant, and utterly unrepentant anti-Semitism of the reno