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Friday, December 20, 2024

Review: In ‘Gypsy,’ Audra McDonald’s Gonna Show It to Ya

Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Review: In ‘Eureka Day,’ Holding Space for Those You Hate

by Jesse Green

A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

‘Cult of Love’ Review: We Wish You a Wretched Christmas

by Jesse Green

A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Best Theater of 2024

by Jesse Green

Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Review: In ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Spiking the Fountain of Youth

by Jesse Green

Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

‘Swept Away’ Review: Lost at Sea, How Far Would You Sink?

by Jesse Green

A dark musical about a shipwreck and its aftermath, with songs by the Avett Brothers, anchors on Broadway.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen Are Robots in Love

by Jesse Green

A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

‘A Wonderful World’ Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong’s Horn Isn’t Enough

by Jesse Green

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

‘Walden’ Review: My Sister! My Twin! My Astronaut!

by Jesse Green

Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Review: A Vocally Splendid ‘Ragtime’ Raises the Roof

by Jesse Green

Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

What It Means to Make Art About Nazis Now

by Jesse Green

And is the culture telling the right stories about them, at a time when it’s never felt more urgent?

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Revive ‘Romeo + Juliet’ for a TikTok Generation

by Jesse Green

The Broadway revival of “Romeo + Juliet” plays to the TikTok crowd. But maybe that’s a good thing.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Review: A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in ‘A Woman Among Women’

by Jesse Green

Julia May Jonas’s compelling play, opening the Bushwick Starr’s new theater, explores how a story written about men looks from the other side.

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Sunday, October 20, 2024

In ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ Nicole Scherzinger Is 23 Feet Tall

by Jesse Green

A fascinating Broadway revival of the bombastic 1994 musical blows it up even further.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Adam Driver in ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Satire of Sincerity

by Jesse Green

A country music star embodies the clichés of celebrity in an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 comedy.

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Friday, October 11, 2024

Review: ‘Our Town’ Starring Jim Parsons Is Still Avant-Garde After 86 Years

by Jesse Green

The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

In ‘The Counter,’ With Anthony Edwards, a Cup of Joe and a Side of Secrets

by Jesse Green

A diner patron asks a waitress for an extraordinary side dish in Meghan Kennedy’s sweet but shaggy new play.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Review: Daniel Dae Kim as a Playwright Unmasked in ‘Yellow Face’

by Jesse Green

David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.

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Monday, September 30, 2024

Robert Downey Jr. Is a Novelist With a Novel Muse in ‘McNeal’

by Jesse Green

The “Oppenheimer” star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance from A.I.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Review: ‘The Hills of California,’ Alive With the Sound of Music

by Jesse Green

In Jez Butterworth’s compelling new play, four girls trained to sing close harmony wind up as acrimonious adults.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Review: What’s Eating Trump? The Singing ‘Ghost of John McCain’

by Jesse Green

The former senator haunts the former president, or vice versa, in this sophomoric musical satire.

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

‘Forbidden Broadway’ Review: Let Them Somewhat Entertain You

by Jesse Green

From its perch way Off Broadway, the long-running satire slings its affectionate arrows at Patti, Audra and the rest.

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Review: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Clean Up in ‘The Roommate’

by Jesse Green

A Bronx grifter and an Iowa homebody share a house and eventually learn from each other in this Broadway star vehicle.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Yesterday’s Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today’s Concerns

by Jesse Green

Revivals of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Our Town,” “Gypsy” and “Sunset Boulevard” aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

My Midsummer Dream: 7 Plays, 5 Days, 4 Stages, 1 Story

by Jesse Green

At the Stratford Festival, a remix of genders and genres tells a brand-new, age-old tale of personal freedom.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Review: In ‘Pamela Palmer,’ a Blonde, a Gumshoe and an Existential Mystery

by Jesse Green

David Ives’s new play at the Williamstown Theater Festival is less a whodunit than a who done what.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

‘Job’ Review: The Psychopath Will See You Now

by Jesse Green

A patient, a shrink and a gun are the raw ingredients of a chic, sadistic Broadway thriller.

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Monday, July 22, 2024

How a Ballroom ‘Cats,’ a Gay Kiss and a Black Marine Reclaimed Old Musicals

by Jesse Green

How a Black lieutenant, a gay kiss and a catless ballroom are helping reclaim Broadway classics.

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Review: What Makes ‘Oh, Mary!” One of the Best Summer Comedies in Years

by Jesse Green

Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

15 Summer Theaters for That Nearby, Out-of-Town Experience

by Jesse Green

Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

‘N/A’ Review: For Nancy Pelosi and A.O.C., It’s a House Divided

by Jesse Green

Is moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Review: A ‘Ulysses’ That Squeezes Bloomsday Into 2 Hours, 40 Minutes

by Jesse Green

Elevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Review: A 10th Life for Those Jellicle ‘Cats,’ Now in Drag

by Jesse Green

Resetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Review: In ‘Dark Noon,’ American History Is a Shoot-’Em-Up Western

by Jesse Green

A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of tragedy at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Listen to the Best Songs From 8 Tony-Nominated Shows

by Jesse Green

“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Review: A Glorious ‘Titanic,’ Returned From the Depths

by Jesse Green

Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Review: In a Nostalgic Revival, ‘Home’ Is Where the Heart Was

by Jesse Green

Samm-Art Williams’s 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Review: In ‘Breaking the Story,’ All’s Unfair in Love and War

by Jesse Green

Maggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Review: In ‘Three Houses,’ a Dark Karaoke Night of the Soul

by Jesse Green

It’s open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy’s hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tony Awards 2024: Who Will Win (and Who Should)

by Jesse Green

Our chief theater critic names the shows and artists he thinks will win, should win and should have been nominated — and suggests a few new categories.

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Monday, May 13, 2024

Review: A New Lens on Auschwitz in ‘Here There Are Blueberries’

by Jesse Green

Archivists are the heroes of a documentary play about a photograph album depicting daily life among the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Tony Nominations 2024: Biggest Snubs and Surprises

by Jesse Green, Alexis Soloski and Scott Heller

It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ‘Uncle Vanya’

by Jesse Green

Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care

by Jesse Green

Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.

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Monday, April 22, 2024

‘Patriots’ Review: What Happened to the Man Who Made Putin?

by Jesse Green

Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not always clear which is which.

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

‘Cabaret’ Review: Dancing, and Screaming, at the End of the World

by Jesse Green

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Review: In ‘Suffs,’ the Thrill of the Vote and How She Got It

by Jesse Green

Shaina Taub’s new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women’s suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce

by Jesse Green

The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Review: It’s No Sunday in the Park With ‘Lempicka’

by Jesse Green

A musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Review: In ‘The Outsiders,’ a New Song for the Young Misfits

by Jesse Green

The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Christopher Durang, the Surrealist of Snark

by Jesse Green

In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘The Who’s Tommy’ Review: Going Full Tilt

by Jesse Green

Will the Who’s rock opera about a traumatized boy hit the jackpot again?

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

‘Water for Elephants’ Review: Beauty Under the Big Top

by Jesse Green

The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Review: An Affair to Dismember, in the Gory Musical ‘Teeth’

by Jesse Green

A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Review: Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People,’ Starring Jeremy Strong

by Jesse Green

The “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

‘The Notebook’ Review: A Musical Tear-Jerker or Just All Wet?

by Jesse Green

The 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Review: In ‘Doubt,’ What He Knows, She Knows, God Knows

by Jesse Green

Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.

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Review: Welcome to ‘Illinoise,’ Land of Love, Grief and Zombies

by Jesse Green

Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Cast Album Roundup: ‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Parade,’ ‘Camelot’ and More

by Jesse Green

Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

‘The Ally’ Review: Social Justice as a Maddening Hall of Mirrors

by Jesse Green

Itamar Moses’s play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it doesn’t offer much drama.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Review: A Musical Paradise, Even in Purgatory

by Jesse Green

Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Broadway’s Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life

by Jesse Green

Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Review: In ‘The Apiary,’ the Bees Have a Troubling Tale to Tell

by Jesse Green

Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: A Stream of Memes, Eroding Trust in Democracy

by Jesse Green

An unlikely dark comedy imagines the people pushing #PizzaGate, Donald Trump and who knows what next.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

‘The Connector’ Review: When Fake News Was All the Rage

by Jesse Green

An Off Broadway musical about the sins of journalistic fabrication might benefit from more make-believe.

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Friday, February 2, 2024

Remembering Chita Rivera’s Unique Voice

by Alex Barron, Lynn Levy, Diane Wong and Jesse Green

Our theater critic on some of the Broadway legend’s greatest vocal performances.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The Queer Kids Are All Right. And Now They’re Making Me Better.

by Jesse Green

How watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past — and still scarred by a less welcoming world.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Chita Rivera Found Her Emotional Voice for Shows Like ‘West Side Story’

by Jesse Green

Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

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Chita Rivera, Finding Her Voice

by Jesse Green

Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Leave the Poor Princess Alone

by Jesse Green

Less than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.

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Friday, January 19, 2024

‘Terce’ Review: How the Other Half Prays, in a Reimagined Mass

by Jesse Green

Heather Christian’s latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked “caregivers and makers.”

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Review: For Jews, an Unanswered ‘Prayer for the French Republic’

by Jesse Green

In Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.

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Monday, January 1, 2024

2024 TV, Movies and More That New York Times Critics Look Forward To

by Holland Cotter, Alissa Wilkinson, Mike Hale, Salamishah Tillet, Jesse Green, Maya Phillips, Jason Zinoman, Margaret Lyons, Zachary Woolfe and Jon Pareles

“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

For a Times Critic on Deadline, a Dramatic Reversal

by Jesse Green

Stories evolve. But a recent review proved to a theater critic that people can change even more.

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Monday, December 18, 2023

Review: Sarah Paulson Makes a Horrible Discovery in “Appropriate”

by Jesse Green

Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Review: Bringing a Classic Record to Life

by Jesse Green

A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.

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Sunday, December 10, 2023

Review: In ‘How to Dance in Ohio,’ Making Autism Sing

by Jesse Green

A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Review: A Shady Documentary Becomes a Weapon of War in ‘Spain’

by Jesse Green

Jen Silverman’s noir play considers the role of artists in the making of propaganda.

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Sunday, November 19, 2023

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: Alicia Keys’s Musical Is Ambitious

by Jesse Green

A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.

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Thursday, November 16, 2023