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Jason Fitzgerald

Jason Fitzgerald’s writing has also appeared in the New Haven Independent, the Village Voice, and Backstage.

The Visit

Review: The Visit

by Jason Fitzgerald
May 1, 2015

The Visit feels like a Grimm fairy tale conspicuously missing a moral.

Review: Side Show at the St. James Theatre

Review: Side Show at the St. James Theatre

by Jason Fitzgerald
November 19, 2014

Where Side Show shines most brightly is in Emily Padgett and Erin Davie’s performances.

Straight White Men

Review: Straight White Men at the Public Theater

by Jason Fitzgerald
November 18, 2014

South Korean-born playwright Young Jean Lee both does and doesn’t traffic in subtlety.

Review: It’s Only a Play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Review: It’s Only a Play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

by Jason Fitzgerald
October 15, 2014

One way to recognize first-rate playwrights is to seek moments of surprising inspiration in their more unambitious plays.

Review: generations at Soho Rep

Review: generations at Soho Rep

by Jason Fitzgerald
October 14, 2014

generations offers a richer experience than its half–hour runtime would suggest.

Review: The Killer at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Review: The Killer at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

by Jason Fitzgerald
June 7, 2014

The Killer is an everyman play written to resemble a political parable.

Review: Macbeth at Park Avenue Armory

Review: Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory

by Jason Fitzgerald
June 5, 2014

The production makes the experience of entering and exiting the theater more exciting than watching the play itself.

Review: If/Then at the Richard Rodgers Theatre

Review: If/Then at the Richard Rodgers Theatre

by Jason Fitzgerald
April 6, 2014

If/Then has all the emotional subtlety of a Nicholas Sparks novel.

Review: Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information at New York Theatre Workshop

Review: Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information at New York Theatre Workshop

by Jason Fitzgerald
February 19, 2014

Caryl Churchill makes lyrical irony out of our inability to make sense of our universe, even as we haplessly and relentlessly keep trying.

Review: The Life and Death of Marina Abramović

Review: The Life and Death of Marina Abramović

by Jason Fitzgerald
December 16, 2013

Robert Wilson’s aesthetic is at home in the colossal Park Avenue Armory.

Review: The Glass Menagerie at the Booth Theatre

Review: The Glass Menagerie at the Booth Theatre

by Jason Fitzgerald
October 17, 2013

Zachary Quinto brings a sulking but simmering aggression to Tom, played as a man who knows who he isn’t, but not who he is.

A Charming Imperfection: Big Fish at the Neil Simon Theatre

A Charming Imperfection: Big Fish at the Neil Simon Theatre

by Jason Fitzgerald
October 8, 2013

Much like the character of Edward Bloom, Big Fish tries too hard to convince us that it’s special.

Anti-Capitalist Tragedy: Matt Charman's The Machine

Anti-Capitalist Tragedy: Matt Charman’s The Machine

by Jason Fitzgerald
September 9, 2013

The Machine, in short, is an anti-capitalist tragedy that spends half its time looking like a sci-fi melodrama and the other half like a biopic.

Storybook Characters: John Cassavetes's Shadows at Jack

Storybook Characters: John Cassavetes’s Shadows at Jack

by Jason Fitzgerald
May 20, 2013

This Shadows is exhilarating and deeply playful, a lively dance between art and reality.

Melodrama for the Anti-Capitalist Crowd: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney at Soho Rep

Melodrama for the Anti-Capitalist Crowd: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney at Soho Rep

by Jason Fitzgerald
May 10, 2013

Lucas Hnath’s indictment of Disney is both clever and total.

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