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Broadway’s 2024-2025 Season: ‘Redwood’ & All Of Deadline’s Reviews
Read Deadline's reviews of all Broadway plays in the 2024-2025 Tony Awards season, from Sunset Blvd to Gypsy and Oh, Mary to Death Becomes Her.
Opening night: December 19, 2024 Venue: Broadway’s Majestic Theatre Directed by: George C. Wolfe Book by: Arthur Laurents Music by: Jule Styne Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim Cast: Audra McDonald, Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, Jordan Tyson, Kevin Csolak, Lesli Margherita, Lili Thomas, Mylinda Hull, Jacob Ming-Trent, Kyleigh Vickers, Marley Lianne Gomes & Jade Smith, Natalie Wachen, Tryphena Wade Running time: 3 hrs (including intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: Along with the high hopes is the question that’s been whispered since the production was announced months ago: Would Audra McDonald, an opera-trained vocalist prized for her impossibly pure soprano, have the grit and belt for the rough-around-the-edges anti-heroine Rose, a character entrusted with a bundle of the finest, gutsiest anthems and ballads ever written by those formidable theater creators Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim? Opening night: October 10, 2024 Venue: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway Written by: Thornton Wilder Directed by: Kenny Leon Cast: Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julie Halston, Donald Webber Jr., with Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, John McGinty, Bryonha Marie, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Ricardo Vázquez, Matthew Elijah Webb, Greg Wood, Nimene Sierra Wureh Running time: 1 hr 45 mins (no intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: While a check-in from the fictional Grover’s Corners circa 1901-1913 is always a moving and welcome addition to anyone’s frazzled day, the new staging by Kenny Leon, with a cast that includes Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Richard Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes and Zoey Deutch, lacks the strong personality that would send it to the top of the many Our Towns that have staked claims on the world’s stages for nearly a century. Opening night: September 12, 2024 Venue: Broadway’s Booth Theatre Written by: Jen Silverman Directed by: Jack O’Brien Cast: Mia Farrow, Patti LuPone Running time: 1 hr 40 mins (no intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: The Roommate is an awkwardly paced, abruptly mood-shifting tale of two very different women on the verge of old age looking to outrun their pasts and stake new claims on the future.
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