Sunday, April 7, 2019
★★★ Daniel Fish's acclaimed new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic offers plenty of ambition but not enough joy
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:52PMThursday, April 4, 2019
★★★★ Glenda Jackson makes another welcome return, leading a supple cast in Shakespeare's tragedy
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:56PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
★★ Young playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg offers an absurdist, simplistic look at sexism in the workplace
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:01PMThursday, March 28, 2019
★★★★★ Sam Mendes's stunning production of Stefano Massini's rise-and-fall epic arrives in New York
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:50PMThursday, March 21, 2019
★★★ Broadway's latest jukebox musical mixes timeless music, exuberantly performed, with time-worn platitudes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:34PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
★★★★★ Maryann Plunkett and Ciarán O’Reilly lead a first-rate ensemble in a searing revival of the "Dublin Trilogy" entry
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:45PMMonday, March 11, 2019
★★ A radiant Isabelle Huppert tries to breathe life into Florian Zeller's account of a woman's isolation
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMFriday, March 8, 2019
While Tony Award–winning scenic designer Mimi Lien was preparing for this season’s Broadway revival of True West, Sam Shepard’s blazing account of fraternal warfare, she drew inspirati…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:47AMFour-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening had not taken a role in a Broadway production since collecting a Tony Award nomination for her debut performance, more than 30 years ago, in the Tina H…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:09AMTuesday, February 26, 2019
★★★★★ The creators of Spring Awakening draw inspiration from Lewis Carroll, with luminous results
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMFor playwright Dominique Morisseau, one of the sweetest parts of making her Broadway debut is being able to bring her hometown with her. Kennedy Prize winner, two-time Obie Award winner, and…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:55AMSunday, February 24, 2019
★★★★ Madeleine George's funny, thought-provoking new play finds a Greek god returning as a gender-bending gardener
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:01PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
★★★★ A hip-hop improv group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an exuberant return
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PM★★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre's Sean O'Casey season kicks off with this piercing look at Ireland's troubles before The Troubles.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PMWhen Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson’s Burn This first opened on Broadway in 1987, its four-member cast included a luminous young actress named Joan Allen — already an accomplished …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:00AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Busch’s latest cabaret show, “Native New Yorker,” brings a change of sartorial style and the music of the 1970s to Feinstein’s/54 Below.
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★★★★★ Laura Benanti and other new recruits bring fresh joy and fire to Bartlett Sher's ravishing revival
The post My Fair Lady: A Loverly, and Fierce, New Eliza appeared first on N…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:40PMThursday, January 24, 2019
★★★★ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano make their own mark in the first Broadway revival of this modern classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:46PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
★★★★ A storied rock & roll rivalry is revisited hilariously, with a gender twist (and tenderness), in Amy Staats's new play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
While Harvey Fierstein was getting the Tony Award–winning musical Kinky Boots on its feet, he and a few collaborators coined a term for the show: “The Happiness Factory.” As everyone n…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:20AMMonday, January 14, 2019
★★★ Three new one-act plays by Neil LaBute find men and women grappling with contemporary and historical issues
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PMSunday, January 13, 2019
★★★★ From Ireland, a tale of two (very different) tortured souls, and towering performances
The post On Blueberry Hill: Unlikely Bedfellows, in Crime and Forgiveness appeared first o…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:00PMWednesday, December 26, 2018
Phish at the Garden, drag shows in Brooklyn, jazz in the Village, comedy perilously close to Times Square and more: Where to laugh, dance, mosh and jam in 2019.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMFriday, December 14, 2018
★★★ The holiday favorite returns to Madison Square Garden, with Gavin Lee as the titular grouch
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:09PMThursday, December 13, 2018
★★★★★ Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reintroduce Harper Lee's beloved work as a play for our times, or any other
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:35PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
★★★ Amy Heckerling brings unapologetic nostalgia and joy to a musical adaptation of her '90s film, featuring Disney star Dove Cameron
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:25PMThursday, December 6, 2018
It was easy to predict that a musical adaptation of Pretty Woman would find fans on Broadway. As producer and veteran film executive Paula Wagner points out, the 1990 movie, starring Julia R…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:12AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
When the subject of a Broadway show is an icon of both music and fashion, it’s vital that the piece be dazzling both visually and aurally. To ensure this was the case for The Cher Show, se…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:22PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Teenage outsiders have not traditionally been considered ripe fodder for musical theater — heightened emotions like those expressed in, say, West Side Story notwithstanding. Be More Chill,…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:46AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
★★★★ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:13AMMonday, November 19, 2018
★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard's brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
The post The Hard Problem: Puzzling Over Beautiful Enigmas, the Mind and Heart…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM 
