{"id":247771,"date":"2026-05-29T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:40:07","slug":"did-reviews-have-big-feelings-about-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247771\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Reviews Have Big Feelings About Small?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews are rolling in for Robert Montano&#8217;s\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/small-off-broadway-the-pershing-square-signature-center-alice-griffin-jewel-box-theatre-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Small<\/a>, which\u00a0officially opened May 28 at the Pershing\u00a0Square Signature Center&#8217;s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. Previews began May 20.<\/p>\n<p>The autobiographical one-man show, written and performed by Montano,\u00a0is a story of loss, tragedy, and triumph,\u00a0chronicling his journey from horse jockey to Broadway dancer in shows such as\u00a0Cats,\u00a0On the Town, and\u00a0Kiss of the Spider Woman, where he performed\u00a0alongside mentor Chita Rivera. Ted Snowdon serves as producer while\u00a0Jessi D. Hill directs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the reviews below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/culturesauce.com\/robert-montano-small-off-broadway-review\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Culture Sauce (Thom Geier)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/reviews\/small-off-broadway-review-robert-montano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Theatre Guide (Joe Dziemianowicz)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therecs.co.uk\/small\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Recs (Randall David Cook)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*This review may require creating a free account or paid subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.<\/p>\n<p>The production features scenic design by Christopher and Justin Swader, lighting design by Jamie Roderick, sound design by Brian Ronan, and properties by Buffy Cardoza. Karen Schleifer will serve as production stage manager, with Lisa Klages Calhoun as assistant stage manager. Roy Gabay is general manager, and Chris Blasting is company manager.<\/p>\n<p>Small is not a production of Signature Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Get tickets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smalltheplay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reviews are rolling in for Robert Montano&#8217;s\u00a0Small, which\u00a0officially opened May 28 at the Pershing\u00a0Square Signature Center&#8217;s Alice Griffin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-247771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}