Thursday, January 3, 2019
★★★ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically
The post The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes: An Off-Center Gaze at the Future appeared …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:00PMMonday, December 24, 2018
★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries
The post Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wide Holiday Greetings …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:11PMThursday, December 6, 2018
★★★ Bryan Cranston plays Paddy Chayevsky's addled newscaster Howard Beale amid all sorts of distracting goings-on
The post Network: Ivo van Hove Brings the 1976 Oscar-Winning Film Gla…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PMMonday, December 3, 2018
★★★★ Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond play Sonny's erstwhile partner with the absolutely right style
The post The Cher Show: Just as Sassy, Bold and Determined as …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:35PMSunday, December 2, 2018
★★★★ Songwriter Peter Mills and Prospect Theater Company celebrate pioneering Great War telephone operators
The post The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Musical Is Welcome …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMMonday, November 19, 2018
★★★★ Consciousness is on the playwright's mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it
The post The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and C…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:35PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
★★★ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle's Neo-Brechtian(?) production.
The post The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-T…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
★★★★ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today's race relations
The post Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMMonday, November 5, 2018
★★★★ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
The post I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns appear…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:30PMSunday, November 4, 2018
★★★★★ Druid's Gerry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
The post Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece Masterfully Handled …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:35PMThursday, November 1, 2018
★★★★ Urie, Ruehl repeat their masterful performances in the strong Second State revival
The post Torch Song: Harvey Fierstein’s View of Gay Life Not Always Gay appeared first o…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:50PMFriday, October 26, 2018
★★★★ Twenty of the great love song purveyor's greatest hits recalled in a musical autobiography
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:52PM★★★★ Carmel Dean, Jack Cumming II, Dick Scanlan, Scott celebrate the making of the poet's prize-winning poem
The post Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay” First Great Poem, Gre…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
★★★ Jaclyn Backhaus fights back at current domestic policies to mixed but hopeful results
The post India Pale Ale: Immigrant Punjabi Drama Makes for Pale Ale appeared first on New York…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM★★ The revival takes advantage of the Donald J. Trump environment but not well
The post Happy Birthday, Wanda June: Kurt Vonnegut’s First Play Not Happy-Making appeared first on N…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PMMonday, October 22, 2018
★ Leo Schwartz snd DC Cathro may enjoy what they've written, but many others might not
The post The Book of Merman: Merman, Mormon Spoof Down in the Depths appeared first on New York Stage…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:40PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
★★★ Jane Anderson's follows a mother whose difficult child turns out to be a saint in the making
The post Mother of the Maid: Glenn Close, Grace Van Patten Hot as Mom and Saint Joan a…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PMMonday, October 15, 2018
★★★★ The marriage of. a reverend and his pregnant wife founders as literal and figurative bombs go off
The post Fireflies: Donja R. Love’s Explosive Look at Destructive Racism …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PMSunday, October 14, 2018
★★★ A tale ripped from the headlines about liberal guilt and immigrant discontent is watered down
The post Emma and Max: Moviemaker Todd Solondz Tries Theater to Mixed Results appeared…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMThursday, October 11, 2018
★★ Mark Sonnenblick is the composer-;lyricist-bookwriter of a sorry tale of 1960s gay romance
The post Midnight at the Never Get: A Musical That Never Quite Gets There appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PMSunday, October 7, 2018
★★★★ Daniel Fish and fine 12-member cast, 7-musician band revitalize the Rodgers-Hammerstein classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PMSunday, September 30, 2018
★★★★ Laughs abound in this sincere defense of the currently under-siege document
The post What the Constitution Means to Me: Lots, Declares Heidi Scheck appeared first on New York St…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:29PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
★★★ Sarah Bernhardt takes on the great role while dallying with Edmond Rostand
The post Bernhardt/Hamlet: Janet McTeer in Theresa Rebeck’s Almost-Ready Play appeared first on New…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PMMonday, September 24, 2018
★★★ The multi-talented performer works instruments and resentments to vigorous effect
The post Wild Abandon: Leenya Rideout Plays, Sings, Talks Show-Biz/Mom Issues appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
★★★★ Douglas McGrath brings the tale of how doing the right society thing is doing the wrong thing
The post The Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton’s Novel Graces the Stage appeare…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMSunday, September 16, 2018
★★★★ Shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter skillfully plays many men in Haile Selassie's Ethiopian court
The post The Emperor: Up-Close-and-Personal/Generic Look at the Powerful appeared fir…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PMSunday, September 9, 2018
★★★★★ A nine-cast Top-40 revue from mid-20th century so hot you could sizzle steaks on it
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:58PMThursday, August 16, 2018
★★★ Samantha Barks and Andy Karl topline this Garry Marshall-J. F. Lawton-Bryan Adams-Jim Vallance transfer
The post Pretty Woman: Hit Romcom, Musicalized, Is Only Pretty Good appeared…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:29PMMonday, August 13, 2018
★★★ Songwriter Joe Iconis, bookwriter Joe Tracz transfer Ned Vizzini's popular YA novel to the stage
The post Be More Chill: Loud Musical About a Desperate Teenage Social Outcast appea…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:01PMSaturday, August 11, 2018
★★★ Michael Tucker writes a smart script for six top actors that starts out less than smart
The post Fern Hill: Three Couples Get Around to Clean Sex on a Farm Weekend appeared first o…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM 
