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Friday, October 24, 2025

Marilyn Maye at 54 Below by Barry Gordin

Unstoppable Cabaret Queen Marilyn Maye Returns to 54 Below Sunday Through November 6 – Then, Again, To Launch the Holiday Season By Ellis Nassour October 24 2025: Marilyn Maye is an art…

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Pygmalion by Barry Gordin

Gingold Theatrical Group Continues Its Shaw Repertory With A Star-Studded Pygmalion on Theatre Row By Ellis Nassour October 22, 2025: Saluting its 20th Anniversary, Gingold Theatrical Gro…

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String Theory **** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons October 22, 2025: In Deborah Stone’s cabaret show, String Theory, she tells the audience her interest in music began when she was 13, and her mother, who was a classic…

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

John Lloyd Young Returns to 54 Below Through October 25 by Barry Gordin

By Ellis Nassour October 22, 2025: John Lloyd Young, the multi-award winning Frankie Valli from Broadway’s Jersey Boys, the star of Clint Eastwood’s movie adaptation, and, the only A…

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Monday, October 20, 2025

Triplicity ***** by Barry Gordin

UNIQUELY CAPTIVATING By Alix Cohen October 20, 2025: If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collabo…

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

André De Shields Is Tartuffe **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward October 19, 2025: For an intimate and raucous evening with a slightly modern twist, you can’t do much better than the current revival of Tartuffe, Moliere’s classic com…

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Art *** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

The Emperor’s New Clothes? By Alix Cohen October 19, 2025: “We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural relevance.” Larry Gagosian (Gagosi…

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Ragtime ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter October 16, 2025: Lear deBessonet makes a stunning debut as the Kewsong Lee Artistic Director at Lincoln Center with her magnificent revival of the musical Ragtime (1996…

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Ragtime ***** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons October 16, 2025: When Ragtime made its world premiere in Toronto in 1996, it seemed that E.L. Doctorow’s vision of an inclusive America might not be that far from rea…

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Ragtime ***** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward October 16, 2025: Ragtime has been never been more relevant and Lear deBessonet’s epic production for Lincoln Center Theater where she has recently been installed as arti…

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Ragtime ***** by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg October 16, 2025: The greatest romance in history, as told in this revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center, is based on the records of the immigrants who helped build our natio…

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Women in Jazz ***** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons October 15, 2025: Four of the greatest female jazz vocalists are Lena Horne, Sarah Vaugn, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. If you like jazz, they are probably high …

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Honey Trap **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward October 12, 2025: “I didn’t think it made any sense to build an oral history of a three-way conflict that only spoke to two of the sides,” says Emily, an American of …

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Crooked Cross *** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg October 9, 2025: The 2025 republication of Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s1934 novel predicting the rise of Nazism, is a literary event of some significance, especially in o…

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Crooked Cross ** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter October 9, 2025: Early this year, Jonathan Bank, artistic director of the Mint Theatre—famous for reviving forgotten plays—learned of Crooked Cross, a 1934novel by …

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Caroline **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward October 7, 2025: Preston Max Allen’s perceptive, keenly observant, and ultimately moving play Caroline begins ordinarily enough. A mother and daughter are ordering mac an…

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Murdoch: The Final Interview *** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons October 7, 2025: Murdoch: The Final Interview begins with William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming” and ends with references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstei…

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Monday, October 6, 2025

The Bliss Option ****1/2 by Barry Gordin

"EVERYDAY THE CHOICE IS YOURS" By Alix Cohen October 6, 2025: The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth’s resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven’…

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Lost and Found *** by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen October 6, 2025: Every play does not have to be life changing. A One Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars. Lost and…

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

And Then We Were No More *** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter October 2, 2025: A small rash of serious playwrights better known as star actors has broken out recently in New York, with the recent openings of John Leguizamo’s The …

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Punch ***** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 30, 2025: It’s going to be very difficult to resist the obvious praise for Punch, James Graham’s hard-hitting British import presented by Manhattan Theater C…

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Punch ***** by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg September 30, 2025: Justice is not about revenge. Therein lies the ontological premise of Punch, an action-packed docudrama set in The Meadows, a social rented housing comp…

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Monday, September 29, 2025

Punch ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter September 28, 2025: It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a Broadway theatre—or a theatre anywhere—and felt my eyes and nose swell with so much moisture I had…

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Waiting for Godot *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s clas…

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

The Other Americans by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter September 25, 2025: John Leguizamo, popular standup comic, monologist, movie star, filmmaker, and, among many other accomplishments, leading advocate for Latino America…

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Saturday Church ***, House of McQueen **, Jamie Allen’s Amaze! **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 24, 2025: While it feels a bit like an Afterschool TV Special, Saturday Church, the new Off-Broadway musical celebrating LGBTQ youth, is fun, infectious, and liv…

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Saturday Church **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter September 20, 2025: Saturday Church, a raucously upbeat new musical, with a score by pop star Sia, celebrates life in the LGBTQ community. Based by writers Damon Cardas…

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Friday, September 19, 2025

The Porch on Windy Hill – A new play with old music by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen September 19, 2025: Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) are in South Carolina on a trip t…

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Art *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 19, 2025: On our way out of the Music Box Theater where the revival of Yasmina Reza’s Art is currently playing, my female theatergoing companion remarked, “I…

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Galas **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 17, 2025. The worlds of camp and opera collide deliriously in the revival of Charles Ludlam’s 1983 Galas in a spectacularly silly outdoor production at Little I…

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Barry Gordin

A METRPOLITIAN OPERA PREVIEW By Alix Cohen September 17, 2025: Tonight’s glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay fea…

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