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The groundbreaking 1990 musical humanizes the troubled souls who try to change history with a gun.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMPlaywright Dominique Morriseau' latest – and perhaps strongest work – “Pipeline,” now being given an exemplary production at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theatre...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:59PMMeghan Kennedy’s “Napoli, Brooklyn” is now premiering at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre under Gordon Edelstein’s direction.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:06PMThe timely terror of living in a fascist state – one where the government makes all the rules and controls all your thoughts – is likely the raison d’etre that the recent British drama…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:28PMHow fulfilled you will feel at the end of Abe Koogler’s 90-minute drama, “Fulfillment Center,” is likely a matter of pre-show expectations.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:28PMThe Tony Awards were a less than glittering night for Broadway.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:18PMIt could be easy enough to bury Oskar Eustis’ Public Theater’s production of “Julius Caesar,” now at the Delacorte Theatre, for being just a bit too heavy-handed.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:23PMTo play a “mad scene” well, as numerous actresses who have been tasked with portraying Ophelia or Lady Macbeth have done, is one thing. To spend an entire 90 minutes on stage portraying …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:48PMSince first-time writers are usually advised to tackle subjects they know, it’s less-than-shocking that former “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s playwriting debut, “The End of Longing…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:37PMWomen have making tough decisions about the price of independence, financial and otherwise, for a couple of centuries, and this timeless topic is explored anew in Gina Gionfriddo’s “Can …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:06PMEverything revolves around Julie, both literally and figuratively, in Hamish Linklater’s ambitious and moving new play, “The Whirligig,” now being given a top-notch production by direc…
SOURCE: at 10:19PMThe Signature Theatre Company’s exploration and re-examination of the career of Suzan-Lori Parks continues with director Lear deBssonet’s striking revival of “Venus, which is dominated…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PMTo paraphrase an old show-biz saying, the sequel is rarely the equal. So anyone expecting Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” now at the Golden Theatre, to have the psychological…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:27PMDespite its two-dimensional characters, this is an old-fashioned musical with crowd-pleasing numbers.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:12AMWhat young girl (or grown woman) hasn’t dreamt that she’s actually royalty? That fantasy is one reason the story of Anastasia Romanov – the daughter of the last Russian tsar, and who m…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:48PMBette Midler delivers an all-stops-out, look-at-me performance for the ages.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:38PMIn any theatrical season, a revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1939 family drama, “The Little Foxes,” would be welcome. Hellman’s play is a remarkably well-structured work, full of complex…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:00PMPaula Vogel’s harrowing new work, “Indecent,” is now at the Cort Theater. Its examinations of censorship, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are both brilliant and painfully timely...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:50PMOslo is a dazzling 14-karat gold production, sets the bar for 2017.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:08PMThe characters are two-dimensional, but the singing is through the roof.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:54AMTony-nominated playwright Martin Sherman pulls off as many sleight of hands in 100 minutes as the most experienced magician in his affecting new play, “Gently Down the Stream,” now at th…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:02PMLoud. Action-packed. Crude. No, I haven’t switched careers and begun reviewing Marvel movies; these same adjectives apply (unfortunately) to Laurence Connor’s bombastic revival of the 19…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:00PMA play that occasionally feels as unruly as its title, Sarah Ruhl’s “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage” is both a very funny and decidedly rueful examination about the challenges of lo…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:37PMDanny DeVito and Mark Ruffalo star in Arthur Miller’s complex 1968 drama.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:02AMTime – 72 years to be exact – cannot extinguish the power of Tennessee Williams’ great autobiographical play, “The Glass Menagerie...”
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:25PMA first-rate quartet of actors, led by Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin, lend gravity and depth to “All the Fine Boys,” a slightly odd and decidedly disturbing drama written and directed by…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:35AMApparently, Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics to “You Gotta Get a Gimmick” way back in 1959, is fine and dandy with the admittedly brilliant gimmick that has led, nearly 60 years la…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:34AMJake Gyllenhaal making his official Broadway musical debut in one of the most profound musicals ever written, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sunday in the Pa…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PMThere are layers upon layers of plot, themes, and revelations in Steven Levenson’s new play, “If I Forget,” now being given an immaculately acted production by Tony winner Daniel Sulli…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:12PMThe conversation flows uninterrupted for 100 minutes in Wallace Shawn’spolished production.
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