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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Jinkx Monsoon Sails From ‘Drag Race’ to ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’

Jinkx Monsoon talks about feeling like a lifetime of hard work is finally paying off, and her return to Broadway as a zany maid in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Natalie Dessay Stars With Her Daughter in a French ‘Gypsy’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The soprano Natalie Dessay and her daughter, Neïma Naouri, team up to explore one of theater’s most toxic mother-daughter relationships.

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Saturday, April 5, 2025

How the Stars of ‘All Nighter’ Get That College Vibe

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The actresses talk about bonding over their nightly cram session, and have also compiled a playlist of some of the songs that get them going.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

‘The Cherry Orchard’ Review: A Captivating Take on Chekhov

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Nina Hoss stars as a melancholic matriarch in Benedict Andrews’s immersive rendition of the classic at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings the Thrill of Music Making to Broadway

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Theater to Stream Now: ‘Beckett Briefs’ and One of Gavin Creel’s Last Shows

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in “Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.”

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Friday, March 7, 2025

Off Broadway Shows to See in March: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and More

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.

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Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Nina Hoss and More, Off Broadway in March

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.

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Friday, February 28, 2025

‘Mary Said What She Said’ Review: A Hypnotic Huppert

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In this Robert Wilson production, Isabelle Huppert is everywhere onstage, all at once, reciting a nonstop script that may well touch on everything.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

‘Dakar 2000’ Review: Which One Is the Liar?

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander, a couple of Americans in Senegal twist, deflect, massage, stretch and maybe even tell the truth.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

‘Night Sings Its Songs’ Review: Rare Staging of Nobel Winner Jon Fosse’s Play

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer’s haunting universe.

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

‘Urinetown’ Review: More Than Toilet Humor

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Encores! revival of the musical from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis seems even more relevant today.

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Monday, January 27, 2025

7 Surprisingly Busy Days in the Life of an Experimental Theater Maker

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Peter Mills Weiss shared details of a week of “everyone doing everything all the time, and by the seat of everyone’s pants.”

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

‘Vanya on Huron Street’ Review: Chekhov in Brooklyn

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Instead of a departure, the writer and director Matthew Gasda’s take on “Uncle Vanya” at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research tends to adhere to the original.

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Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli and Mikayla Whitmore

Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Under the Radar: Venturing to Fantastical Universes With a Dodo and More

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat offerings this January.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘All In’ Review: A Slight Affair for John Mulaney-Led Comedy About Love

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A talented cast has fun in Simon Rich’s Broadway debut, but the minimally staged show doesn’t quite justify the hefty price of tickets.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

‘How Did I Get Here?’: 7 Days in the Life of a Busy Arts Programmer

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jay Wegman runs from rehearsals to lunches to shows for his job at N.Y.U. Skirball, then home for a “What We Do in the Shadows” episode or two.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Holiday Shows to See in N.Y.C.: ‘Elf,’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and More

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Elf the Musical,” inventive spins on “A Christmas Carol” and classic family fare: Here are some of our favorite shows of the season.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Review: ‘We Are Your Robots,’ Still Tuning Up

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In Ethan Lipton’s musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

In ‘Music City’ and ‘Babe,’ Existential Battles of the Heart and Soul

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Bedlam’s country music show is a rollicking good time. But the New Group’s production of “Babe,” starring Marisa Tomei, is a frustrating one-act lacking cohesion.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Review: Tammy Faye Was Over-the-Top. This Musical Makes Her Small.

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Tammy Faye,” a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Two Climate Change Plays Keep the Flames of Hope Alive

by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.

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Sunday, October 27, 2024

Review: ‘We Live in Cairo’ Falls Short of Being Revolutionary

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Egyptians stand up to their government in a play that excels in its design but rings hollow when its subtext and character development are scrutinized.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A French Play Explores the Enduring Allure of ‘Showgirls’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 film, “Showgirl” considers what it means to be an actress who gets naked.

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Monday, October 7, 2024

‘The Big Gay Jamboree’ Review: A Golden-Age Fantasia on Steroids

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The goofball spirit that made Marla Mindelle’s “Titaníque” a hit is missing from her equally campy new show drenched in pop-culture references.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

3 Ambitious Song Cycles, but Only One Connects Mind and Heart

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Todd Almond’s “I’m Almost There” is a work of wonder, while Gabriel Kahane’s “Book of Travelers” and “Magnificent Bird” are less effective.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024

The Stage Combat Is Verbal in These Off Broadway Plays

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Belarus Free Theater’s “KS6: Small Forward” and three other shows are reminders that there are many ways to portray conflicts and confrontations onstage.

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

‘Counting and Cracking’ Review: One Family’s Tale Fit for an Epic

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

No theatrical wizardry is needed for this compelling drama about a woman’s journey to Australia from war-torn Sri Lanka and the generations that follow.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

James Earl Jones’s Rich Career in Theater: ‘Othello,’ ‘The Great White Hope’ and More

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

With ‘Empire Records: The Musical,’ Zoe Sarnak Revives a ’90s Cult Classic

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The composer is breaking the rules of musical theater and finding an increasingly warm welcome this year for her rock sound. Next up, “Empire Records: The Musical.”

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

At a Festival Amid Industrial Ruins, Ivo van Hove Takes Charge

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

For the Belgian director’s first edition as leader of the Ruhrtriennale, abandoned sites are “the starting point and the end point,” he says.

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Sutton Foster and Michael Urie Reunite in the Zany ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The hit Encores! production has transferred to Broadway, with a cast fiercely dedicated to entertaining its audience.

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This Theater Company in Wisconsin Banks on the Glory of the Human Voice

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

No musicals and no mics: At American Players Theater in Wisconsin, nothing comes between the actors, their words and the public.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

In Chicago, 3 Shows That Keep the Audience in Mind and Engaged

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Musical adaptations of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Lord of the Rings” as well as a new Samuel D. Hunter play were on our critic’s itinerary.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

In ‘Pre-Existing Condition,’ a Character Isn’t Defined by Abuse, or One Actress

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Stars like Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell bring a communal quality to Marin Ireland’s play about the aftermath of domestic violence.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

‘I Might Be Real-Life Good at This’: Shooting for Broadway at the Jimmy Awards

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.

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Review: In ‘Find Me Here,’ Sisters Grapple With a Father’s Will, and His Legacy

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A family gathering fuels Crystal Finn’s new play, in which an excellent cast teases out the many complications of inheritance.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

On Broadway, ‘Suffs’ Has a New Tune (and 6 Tony Nominations)

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A reworked opening number, less historical bulk and a general push to “have fun with these women” helped a musical find its way.

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Saturday, June 8, 2024

Pride Month 2024: An Abundance of Theater of All Stripes

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

From Broadway to the city’s smaller stages, a flurry of shows with wide-ranging appeal, familiar faces and rising talent.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Review: In ‘Usus,’ Pig Latin Gets Lost in Translation

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

T. Adamson’s new comedy, which opens Clubbed Thumb’s popular Summerworks series at the Wild Project, is about a group of worked-up Franciscan friars.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

‘Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha’ Review: Julia Masli Is a Problem-Solving Clown

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A hit at Edinburgh Fringe last year, Julia Masli’s show arrives at SoHo Playhouse for its New York debut.

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Sunday, May 19, 2024

‘Nobody Cares’ About Laura Benanti, but They Let Her Entertain Them

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

While poking fun at her own agreeable malleability, Benanti flexes her talents in a show that will be available on Audible, without the physical dimension.

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Friday, May 17, 2024

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Review: Community Building One Dice Roll at a Time

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Improv adds a theatrical dimension to the role-playing game, which has been undergoing a renaissance as it turns 50 this year.

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Friday, May 3, 2024

‘The Miser’ Review: Updating Molière, but Missing a Key Ingredient

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This Molière in the Park production doesn’t have the sharp satirical bite of the original.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

‘Orlando’ Review: A Virginia Woolf Fantasy That Plays With Gender

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In this revival of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of the Woolf novel, now starring Taylor Mac, the flashes of comedy can’t make up for the loss of poetry.

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Huey Lewis’s Music Makes ‘The Heart of Rock and Roll’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The new musical doesn’t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments — almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story.

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: Alicia Keys’s Musical Finds Its Groove on Broadway

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, “stands out as one of the rare must-sees” in a crowded season.

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

‘The Hunt’ Review: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This modern-day fable, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Tobias Menzies, is styled with horror.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

‘A Sign of the Times’ Review: A Confused 1960s New York

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A jukebox musical about a Midwesterner’s big dreams is heavy on the Petula Clark.

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Review: ‘I Love You So Much I Could Die,’ an Experiment in Distance

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Mona Pirnot’s crisis-centered play uses all its resources to keep the audience at a physical and emotional remove from her sorrow.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Dating Woes? Nina Conti Has the Answer, or at Least Some Jokes

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In “The Dating Show,” the British comedian and ventriloquist initiates close encounters of the potentially romantic kind. Laughs will definitely ensue.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Chita Rivera Lived to Entertain. Here Are 9 Memorable Performances.

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A quadruple threat, Rivera could make a lasting impression in minutes, whether onstage or onscreen. These videos illustrate why.

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

‘Once Upon a Mattress’ Review: Sutton Foster as a Perfectly Goofy Princess

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Encores! series returns with a concert staging of the 1959 musical, which also stars the very funny Harriet Harris and Michael Urie.

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Friday, January 19, 2024

‘Our Class’ Review: A Town’s Horrific Past Chillingly Brought Into the Light

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The story of a 1941 massacre is told through the lives of 10 Polish classmates, five Jewish and five Catholic, in this suspenseful but humane play.

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

At UTR and Exponential, Four Soul-Enriching Experiments in Theater

by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Buckle up for “Open Mic Night” and “Search Party” at Under the Radar and two wildly adventurous works at the Exponential Festival.

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

‘Waitress: The Musical’ Review: A Big-Screen Helping of a Broadway Hit

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Sara Bareilles is the heart and soul of this live capture of her musical.

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Friday, December 1, 2023

No Snoozing Here: This ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Is Gearing Up for a Wild Ride

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

At Abrons Arts Center, a hilarious family show in the British holiday tradition that runs “like a steam train when it goes well.”

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Qui Nguyen Was Done Writing Plays. His Family Pulled Him Back In.

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

With “Poor Yella Rednecks,” the writer continues to tell his Vietnamese American family’s immigrant story. Maybe one day his parents will even see the shows.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

In ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,’ Aubrey Plaza Steps in the Ring

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The actress makes her stage debut alongside Christopher Abbott in an Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s compact and combative play.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

‘Watch Night’ Review: For Spacious Skies, for Rancorous Waves of Hate

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Conceived in part by Bill T. Jones, this multigenre work at the Perelman Performing Arts Center is interested in homegrown prejudice, but lacks dramatic focus.

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Sunday, October 29, 2023

‘Nosferatu, a 3D Symphony of Horror’ Review: A Lip-Smacking Scare

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This creepy Halloween show is the latest visual feat from Joshua William Gelb, presented by Theater in Quarantine and produced in a closet.

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Good Times and Bum Times Made These Theater Veterans Even Stronger

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Graciela Daniele and Priscilla Lopez are working together on Michael John LaChiusa’s memory musical, “The Gardens of Anuncia,” inspired by Daniele’s early life.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The Passion of Adèle Haenel, an Artist of Fierce Political Conviction

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Haenel, working with the choreographer-director Gisèle Vienne in “L’Étang,” is trying to “pierce through the surface of things.”

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Tituss Burgess Thinks ‘Golden Girls’ Reruns Get Funnier as You Age

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Returning to Broadway for “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” the actor shares his love for dishing during a haircut and comes out as a pluviophile.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

‘Stereophonic’ Finds Drama in a ’70s Rock Recording Booth

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The playwright David Adjmi explores the in-studio creation process in a play with new songs by the former Arcade Fire member Will Butler.

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

Solo Shows in Theater This Fall: Patrick Page, Isabelle Adjani and More

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

For theatergoers who love uncrowded stages, the coming months bring a range of works, from musical comedies to Shakespearean dramas.

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‘Dicks: The Musical’ Review: Hitting High Notes, Going Lowbrow

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Larry Charles’s musical comedy is so hellbent on being outrageous that it just ends up being tiresome.

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Friday, September 29, 2023

In ‘Big Trip,’ an Exiled Russian Director Asks: What Makes Us Human?

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Dmitry Krymov’s two shows at La MaMa thrillingly stress the porosity of the line between life and storytelling.

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

‘Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors’ Review: An Equal-Opportunity Seducer

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A gender-bending play at New World Stages filters well-known characters through influences like “The Rocky Horror Show” and “Young Frankenstein.”

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Review: Rachel Bloom Shines in ‘Death, Let Me Do My Show’

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The writer-performer wanted to avoid the pandemic, but couldn’t. Her new solo show dives into birth, death and cosmic confusion.

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Monday, August 14, 2023

‘A Eulogy for Roman’ Review: Farewell to a Friend, With Help From the Audience

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Check your cynicism at the door: Brendan George is earnest and endearing as he mourns Roman in this one-man show.

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Monday, July 31, 2023

Liz Kingsman’s ‘One Woman Show’ Lands in N.Y.C.

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The comedian talks about her slightly goofy, slightly surreal style, and why New York has proved to be “the hardest translation” yet.

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Friday, July 28, 2023

Review: This ‘Summer Stock’ Cast Is Having a Blast

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Goodspeed Opera House takes on Charles Walters’s 1950 film with zest and humor.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps Tennessee Williams’s ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Erica Schmidt’s revival of this Tennessee Williams play for Theater for a New Audience downplays the melodrama.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Sarah Benson, Soho Rep’s Former Director, Wants Theater to Push You

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

At the helm of Soho Rep, Benson presided over a long streak of ambitious, thought-provoking works. As she heads out the door, she reflects on her vision for theater’s future and plans for her own.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review: Wish You Were There

by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Only 650 people got to experience one of the 21st century’s artistic feats, until this documentary. Unfortunately, it misses some of the performance’s key aspects.

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Monday, June 26, 2023