Call Me Izzy
Written by Jamie West
Directed by Sarna Lapine
Roundabout Theatre – Studio 54
August 6, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

This is one remarkable story on stage.  Going into a one-person show, I am always wondering if perhaps the show would be best read with little need to go to the theatre, but Jean Smart absolutely proves me wrong on this.  From the first moment played in a chair, in her tiny bathroom, in a trailer, in Louisiana you cannot take your eyes of her.  

Operation Mincemeat
Books, Music & Lyrics by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, & Zoe Roberts
Directed by Robert Hastie
Golden Theatre
August 1, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

If you love a good silly farce with lots of incredibly skilled actors giving their full out best – – then you need to get tickets to see Operation Mincemeat.  The musical has a truly remarkable true-life story as its foundation and years and years of satire, comic adaptation and story telling given to it

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Written by Oscar Wilde
In a new adaptation written and directed by Kip Williams
Music Box Theatre
May 23, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was an incredible night in the theatre!  It was simply magical how one woman, an amazing technology and crew could fill the stage and tell a somewhat forgotten story long considered a literary classic.  From the very first moment that the large screen center stage lights up, you know you are going to see the “pictures” in the Picture of Dorian Gray like you could never have imagined.  The story is told by one woman using characters she creates live vying with those she has pre-recorded on sets that are live in front of us and settings that have been pre-recorded. 

John Proctor is the Villain
Written by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Danya Taymor
Booth Theatre
May 18, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

John Proctor is the Villain tells the story of a high school English classroom in the spring semester of the junior year in 2018 in a one-stoplight town in northeast Georgia.  Mr. Smith, a very attractive, popular English teacher, is quickly and awkwardly working his way through the state required sex-ed curriculum so that he can get to the highly anticipated study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.  It is when this study of the characters and themes of the Crucible collides with the realities of the classroom and the world of the 2018 (the height of the #MeToo movement) that this play erupts into one of the most explosive and oddly cathartic dramas currently on Broadway.

Floyd Collins
Book, Additional Lyrics & Direction by Tina Landau
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Lincoln Center Theatre
May 17, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.

Floyd Collins is a musical inspired by the true life experience of Floyd Collins who in 1925, while chasing fame and fortune by turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction became the attraction himself as he became trapped 200 feet underground. The haunting and glorious folk and bluegrass-inspired music of Floyd Collins is exceptionally beautiful.  Jeremy Jordan and Lizzy McAlpine sing some of the most beautiful music that I can remember on the musical theatre stage in a good long time.  Plus, the orchestrations that move us from moment to moment in the story are truly magical.  I would have been so happy if evening had just been a concert version of the musical.