The Rocky Horror Show
Opening Night: April 23, 2026
Theater: Studio 54
Website: www.roundabouttheatre.org
The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids—Brad and his fiancée, Janet—on their way to visit their former college professor when by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a mansion. They meet the charismatic Dr. Frank-n-Furter (played by Luke Evans), Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie, and Rocky. It is an adventure they would remember, for a very long time.
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April 23, 2026
[Luke Evans’] magnetism is off the charts: Pinkleton can, more or less, point him at the audience and fire him like a cannon. Evans towers over the rest of the cast in skyscraper boots, his long hair slicked wetly down his back and his chest playing peek-a-boo above his latex corset. Won’t someone, anyone, love him? Half of the orchestra nearly followed him out when he ran off for intermission.
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April 23, 2026
Solidly produced, this revival still feels like a missed opportunity to be the wild must-attend event of the season. It’s Rocky Horror at Studio 54 for crying out loud. If we can’t let loose here, where can we?
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April 23, 2026
The halls of Studio 54 should be proud with the glittery whirlwind happening on stage eight times a week. It’s Sam Pinkleton to a tee, and boy is it fun. It’s a type of revival that will please the fans and welcome newcomers to the world justly. We are fortunate to have so much queer joy on our stages here in New York right now and The Rocky Horror Show add to that collection perfectly. Head over to the lab, and keep dreaming.
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April 23, 2026
With immensely appealing performances from Luke Evans (yes, he most certainly can sing) as the sinister Frank-N-Furter, Rachel Dratch as the droll narrator quick with the audience repartee, the always excellent Andrew Durand as uptight (until he’s not) Brad and Stephanie Hsu as timid (until she’s not) Janet, this Roundabout-produced Rocky Horror revival is a first-rate presentation of a property that, along with John Waters’ early work, pretty much defined a certain strain of ’70s counter-culture fare.
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April 23, 2026
The production will no doubt satisfy “Rocky Horror Show” fetishists who still find comfort in the liturgical rituals of a by-gone counter-culture. Others, however, will just find themselves in a tired time warp.
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April 23, 2026
Still, there’s much to like, even adore, in Pinkleton’s revival — from its Fritz Lang-y metallic manikins to a dark and seductive castle set that feels ripped from a Jim Steinman music video to two knockout performances from Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Hsu as Janet. Yet when the plot practically disappears midway through Act 2, and the crowd’s lips are zipped, you just crave something more, more, more.
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Ideally a show charging hundreds of dollars a seat (in most cases) would make things more legible than Pinkleton has, to best ensure that everyone is having a good time, not just those who have heard these lines, and said their own, countless times before. A Rocky Horror revival should be an opportunity to mint new fans, rather than mere time warp back to remembered nights at the movies.
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It’s a tricky spot taking on such an iconic role originally played to perfection by Curry, but this is no mere shadow cast performance. Evans manages to capture the character’s scintillating combination of dangerous sexuality and emotional vulnerability, all while adding his own devilish spin. He also delivers a fresh interpretation courtesy of vocal deliveries that zig where Curry zagged, without sapping any power from the original songs that fans know and love. His tender yet powerful take on “I’m Going Home” (the emotional heart of the show) is a triumph.
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April 23, 2026
This “Rocky Horror” is not without flaws, but it hardly matters. The style carries you along, and the energy rarely falters. For nearly two hours, it delivers what it promises: a weird, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable night out. Participation optional, temptation unavoidable.
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April 23, 2026
Roundabout Theatre Company’s exuberant Broadway revival of the show, directed by Sam Pinkleton and featuring a killer cast led by international heartthrob Luke Evans as Frank, makes roughly the same invitation. It’s an awfully hard one to resist.
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April 23, 2026
I fear the show has landed in a kind of less-than-comfy middle ground, neither an interactive, anything-goes bacchanal, which surely would have been the better way to go, nor a traditional Broadway experience where the audience keeps its smart mouth shut and listens to the performers. Neither side seemed fully happy with the compromise.
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This starry production leans fully into the show’s campy pleasures, delivering plenty of laughs, strong performances and visual flair. But it rarely taps into the provocative, more unpredictable undercurrent that gives Rocky Horror its countercultural bite. And without that sense of risk, much of the evening feels curiously weightless.
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April 23, 2026
Tom Hewitt in the 2000 Broadway revival and Luke Evans now – they basically recycle Curry’s Frank right down to the black-lace stockings. Could this transsexual from Transylvania be into Latex or, maybe, gingham instead?
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There are no shortage of lush performances and lavish production design. The costumes (David I. Reynoso) and makeup (Sterling Tull) pay homage to the movie while maintaining their own creativity inspired by the performers. Supporting performers like Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (as Columbia), Harvey Guillén (doubling as Eddie and Dr. Scott), and Josh Rivera (as Rocky) round out a strong cast, and each have their moments to shine. There are almost too many places to look. Focus too much on Frank’s radiant petulance and you might miss Janet’s come-hither exchanges with Rocky, Brad’s resentful glares, or Riff Raff (a spectacularly creepy Amber Gray) and Magenta’s (a fittingly deadpan Juliette Lewis) conspiratorial glances.
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The original live stage version, sans Picture, has been exhumed in revival under the Roundabout aegis. And on the evidence, it’s time to bid the sucker farewell, particularly as staged here: large, loud, and expensive in a setting utterly unsuited to it. Virtually everything that “made” the Rocky Horror experience is traduced or ignored at Studio 54.
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The morning after witnessing the new Broadway staging of The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54, it’s difficult to recall much to remark upon. So I guess this revival cannot be considered, at least by me, a memorable production from the Roundabout Theatre Company. Sam Pinkleton, the director of Oh, Mary! among recent successes, presents a respectful staging of Richard O’Brien’s forever monstrously entertaining musical performed by a capable company upon a setting more functional than fabulous designed by the dots collective.
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It’s that very nostalgia that (perhaps unavoidably) undermines this second Broadway revival. The cast is stellar and the staging is inventive, but the production just doesn’t measure up to the original.
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April 24, 2026
Happy news: Pinkleton and Co. have mostly gotten this zany experiment right, even if the audience participation is a quandary without an easy answer. At my Saturday-night performance, the crowd’s sporadic callouts derailed the show more often than they delighted. Thankfully, Pinkleton has “Saturday Night Live” alum Rachel Dratch on the premises — tapping a perfectly bemused narrator to keep this hypersexualized sci-fi train on the tracks.
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April 24, 2026
Even amid Broadway’s queer renaissance, Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” stands out as a transgressive blast. Luke Evans is a gloriously seductive Frank-N-Furter; Josh Rivera an adorable Rocky; Amber Gray a sharp Riff-Raff; Michaela Jaé Rodriguez a sweet Columbia; and Stephanie Hsu a spicy standout as Janet, wriggling with horndog virtuosity through “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a Me.” Rachel Dratch is perfectly arch as the smoking-jacketed narrator, riffing effortlessly with the audience.
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April 23, 2026
In the Roundabout’s Broadway revival, that gritty, jubilant, made-in-a-basement quality somehow still comes through, and it provides real warmth and charm. Lovingly directed by the almost-too-obvious choice, Oh, Mary!’s Sam Pinkleton, this Rocky Horror Show puts its trust in some advice handed down from the play’s creator: “When in doubt, this is a trashy little musical.”
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