Review: In its remake of the TV series, ‘Smash’ on Broadway is anything but

Review: In its remake of the TV series, ‘Smash’ on Broadway is anything but

NEW YORK — In “Smash,” the 2012 NBC-TV series chronicling the fraught making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe, we learned about the two writers of the show-within-a-show having a sweet tradition. As played by Debra Messing and Christian Borle, the pair celebrated their new shows by visiting some lowly community staging of one of their previous hits. So they go to a little high-school production and, to their surprise along with the vie…

‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Scratching A 13-Year Itch

When the Broadway-themed drama Smash began its two-season run on NBC in 2012, the entire theater industry, it seemed then, was entranced. The lingo, the faces, the concerns – all seemed, if not entirely authentic, then at least clever enough to create some backstage buzz. Even with the series’ quick decline in quality and ratings, some sort of stage adaptation came to seem inevitable. Thirteen years later, Smash The Musical arrives on Broadway…

Review Roundup: SMASH Opens On Broadway Starring Robyn Hurder and More

Read reviews for Broadway’s SMASH, opening tonight at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. The new musical, inspired by the hit NBC television series, takes audiences inside the backstage pandemonium behind the scenes of Bombshell, a musical about Marilyn Monroe.