Brandon J. Dirden

Broadway Review: “Waiting for Godot” at the Hudson Theatre (Through Sunday, January 4, 2026)

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?” Vladimir asks this question in Act II of “Waiting for Godot,” and it hangs in the air of the Hudson Theatre like an accusation. It is the question we do not want to answer—the one about complicity, about privilege, about who gets to zone out while the world burns. When Keanu Reeves delivers…

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Broadway Review: “Take Me Out” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 11, 2022)

The revival of “Take Me Out” by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political climate and the conservative challenges of LGBTQ+ rights. The story about a major league baseball star surprisingly coming out in a public arena, deals with the…

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