The New Yorker:

Helen Shaw
Shaw has been the magazine’s theatre critic since 2022.

Not since before the pandemic have we had a theatre season this simultaneously frenetic and artistically compelling. Last year was strong with “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” and the still-running “Gypsy,” but this one is nuts: shows have obliterated box-office records while they were still in previews. Drawn by Hollywood superstars such as Denzel Washington (in a disappointing “Othello”), Kieran Culkin (in a sturdy “Glengarry Glen Ross”), and George Clooney (in an impassioned “Good Night, and Good Luck”), audiences have been willing to fork over crazy sums, with some ticket prices nearing the thousands. Sometimes there’s money to be made on Broadway, but what’s surprising is that this year’s plums are plays, not musicals. A hullabaloo over Mamet? Over Shakespeare? It feels like the old days.

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