Reviewing Al Pacino, Broadway’s Collateral Damage And Air For Sale, Cheap: Gerard & Roth — deadline.com

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds barred. GERARD: I’m wondering whether Significant Other, which opened last week on Broadway, will end up as, to use that Vietnam-era euphemism, collateral damage in the aftermath of Charles Isherwood’s abrupt departure from The New York Times. I know you loved this play when it opened at the Roundabout, and I liked it too – much more than Joshua Harmon’s earlier comedy, Bad Jews. Isherwood loved Significant Other, and his enthusiastic review doubtless played a role in the decision by producer Jeffrey Richards to move it to Broadway.

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