In the end, though, this Big Fish lacks the imagination or cohesion to reel you in like one of its hero's yarns." Marilyn Stasio, Variety: "Resisting the usual Broadway tendency toward over ...

“Big Fish,” the new musical based on the 2003 Tim Burton movie -- as well as the original novel by Daniel Wallace -- made its big splash on Broadway over the weekend, opening at the Neil Simon ...

I must admit I had high expectations as I walked into the final preview Saturday of this highly anticipated new Broadway musical. Big Fish, which opened Sunday at New York’s Neil Simon Theatre ...

is not exactly top shelf musical theatre (although on paper Big Fish easily outclasses any original-run Broadway musical currently on the boards) but director/choreographer Susan Stroman ...

Like a beached marine animal, “Big Fish” has flopped on Broadway. The musical, which is based on the 2003 Tim Burton movie of the same name, is set to close at the Neil Simon Theatre in New ...

Broadway's "Big Fish" is swimming away. Producers said Sunday the musical, starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, will play its final performance Dec. 29. When it closes ...

The brewing musical version of “Big Fish” has hooked Broadway’s Neil Simon Theater for a fall opening, reeling in a cast that includes Bobby Steggert, Kate Baldwin and Krystal Joy Brown to ...

The splashy new musical version of Big Fish — the beloved 2003 Tim Burton film, as well as a heralded Daniel Wallace novel before that — is fully under way in previews at Broadway’s Neil ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic NEW YORK — The Broadway musical Big Fish is being reeled in. The stage adaptation of Daniel Wallace‘s 1998 novel and Tim Burton‘s 2003 film about the ...

One of the fall's most high-profile new Broadway musicals, Big Fish, will close Dec. 29, after 34 previews and 98 regular performances. The musical adaptation of Tim Burton's fantastical 2003 film ...

Overflowing with heart, humor and spectacular stagecraft, Big Fish is an extraordinary new Broadway musical that reminds us why we love going to the theatre—for an experience that's richer ...

The show, which also incorporates material from Daniel Wallace’s original novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, will open in the Neil Simon Theatre this October. Its Broadway run will ...