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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Review: Caryl Churchill Times Four Makes an Infinity of Worlds

“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp,” a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ It’s the Girls vs. the Men

by Jesse Green

Kimberly Belflower’s play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against “The Crucible.”

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: In a Musical Comedy Makeover, ‘Smash’ Lives Up to Its Name

by Jesse Green

En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs

by Jesse Green

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

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The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn

by Jesse Green

The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.

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Monday, April 7, 2025

‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Broadway Brand Extension

by Jesse Green

The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.

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Sunday, April 6, 2025

‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren Star in a Muddy Revival

by Jesse Green

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

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Friday, April 4, 2025

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

by Jesse Green

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr

by Jesse Green

Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Starring Sarah Snook and 3 Million Pixels

by Jesse Green

The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

In ‘Othello,’ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator

by Jesse Green

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe

by Jesse Green

A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’

by Jesse Green

Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite

by Jesse Green

A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’

by Jesse Green

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone

by Jesse Green

Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

‘Sumo’ Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons

by Jesse Green

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

‘Grangeville’ Review: Am I My Half Brother’s Keeper?

by Jesse Green

A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized

by Jesse Green

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger

by Jesse Green

Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in ‘Redwood’

by Jesse Green

The “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

by Jesse Green

According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof

by Jesse Green

The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In

by Jesse Green

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover

by Jesse Green

“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

‘Tammy Faye’ and ‘Cinderella’ Were Hits in London but Failed on Broadway

by Jesse Green

What happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

TV, Movies, Music and Art to Look Forward to in 2025

by James Poniewozik, Zachary Woolfe, Jon Pareles, Jason Farago, Gia Kourlas, Jesse Green, Salamishah Tillet, Mike Hale, Alissa Wilkinson, Amanda Hess, Jason Zinoman and Maya Phillips

“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.

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Friday, December 20, 2024

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

by Jesse Green

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