Saturday, August 11, 2018
★★★ Michael Tucker writes a smart script for six top actors that starts out less than smart
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMSunday, August 5, 2018
★★★★★ Replacing Tony Shalhoub, the Isaeli star helps maintain the just-about-perfect chamber musical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:50PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
★★ The history play combination, directed by Austin Pendleton and Peter Bloch, too often fires blanks
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00PMThursday, August 2, 2018
★★★★ The stand-up comic who does a lot of commanding the stage talks about his expanding family
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMMonday, July 30, 2018
★★★★ Marcus Gardley pens a history play relevant to today's compromised feminist status
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMThursday, July 26, 2018
★★★★ The comedienne looks back at several decades of being funny while dieting
The post My Life on a Diet: Renée Taylor Serves Dishes of Comfort Laughs appeared first on New York St…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:59PMThursday, July 19, 2018
★★★★ John Strand pits conservatism against liberalism in a play as timely as they come
The post The Originalist: Antonin Scalia v. a Liberal Clerk With Hot Results appeared first on…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:54PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
★★★ The challenging story of a steel manufacturing family in 1933 Germany struggling to survive
The post The Damned: Ivo van Hove Goes About Theatricalizing Visconti appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:36PMMonday, July 16, 2018
★★★ A woman hoping to make something of her life latches on to an ambivalent moviemaker
The post Fire in Dreamland: Rinne Groff’s New Drama Has Trouble Igniting appeared first o…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PMThursday, July 12, 2018
★ John Wulp stage-adapts a medieval mystic's life at great length to small avail
The post The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Saint or Sinner? Not Worth Deciding appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PMMonday, July 2, 2018
★★★★ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris' Cicero novels for Gregory Doran's surging two parts
The post Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator: From London appeared first on New York Sta…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages
The post Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent: From London appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:29PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Baz Luhrman's dance flick, Muriel Spark's novel take the stage, Strindberg's Miss Julie doesn't take
The post Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie: From London appeared fi…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
★★★★ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South
The post Sugar in Our Wounds: Salt Effectively Poured in Civil War Wounds appeared first on…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PMMonday, June 18, 2018
★★★★ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard's jealousy screed
The post Othello: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Version Done Wisely and Well appe…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:15PMFriday, June 15, 2018
★★★ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:16PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
★★★★ Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman go west for a fun and frolicsome take on Shakespeare's "problem" play
The post Desperate Measures: The Bard’s…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:15PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
★ Elevator Repair Service goes at Edward Albee's classic to embarrassing results
The post Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf: Everyone? Not So Fast appeared first on New York Stage…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMThursday, June 7, 2018
★★★★★ David Byrne's treatise involving culture hero Jacob Bronowski is dramatically ascendent
The post Secret Life of Humans: Humankind’s Rise Debated on Human Level appeared…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:06PMThursday, May 31, 2018
★★★★ Eve Wolf's book calls on actors and musicians to prove argument about aural emotions
The post Tchaikovsky, None But the Lonely Heart: Abundant Musical Heart appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:02PM★★★ Susan Stroman, David Thompson and John Kander get Irina Dvorovenko, Tony Yazbeck on their toes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:20PMMonday, May 21, 2018
★★★★★ A fascinating tribute to the late, great Polish director/author and his Cricot 2 company
The post A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique): Wooster Group on Tadeusz Kantor …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:16PMWednesday, May 16, 2018
★ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff
The post Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:05AMSunday, May 13, 2018
★ The usually exceptional Maria Aitken runs into trouble directing a cast working overtime to no avail.
The post Twelfth Night: The Quality of Shakespeare’s Comedy Woefully Strained…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
★★★★★ Richard Eyre brilliantly directs Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, Rory Keenan and Matthew Beard
The post Long Day’s Journey into Night: O’Neill’s at Breakneck…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PMThursday, May 10, 2018
★★ Playwright Philip Dawkins roams freely through the famous playwrights' related lives
The post The Gentleman Caller: Tennessee Williams, William Inge Oddly Coupled appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMMonday, May 7, 2018
★★★ Rachel Chavkin directs a talk-heavy look back at Oliver Cromwell's civil war
The post Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: Caryl Churchill’s History Lecture appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMThursday, May 3, 2018
★★★★★ Jack Cummings III stunningly directs the play that established the very idea of off-Broadway
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:15PM★★★★ Bill Russell writes the songs, Janet Hood the book for a maybe likely story of tolerance
The post Unexpected Joy: Mothers, Daughters Vie, Singing Joyful Tunes appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber
The post Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM 
