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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Review: Sweet Charity at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

smartly streamlined - Sutton Foster is a delightful Charity Hope Valentine in this smartly streamlined reviva

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Friday, November 18, 2016

Review: Dead Poets Society at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

your appreciation of this screen-to-stage adaptation will depend a lot on how you felt about the movie . .

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Review:Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet - The little musical engine that could makes a triumphant landing on Broadway -- with review of Groban's substitute

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Monday, November 14, 2016

Review: Women of a Certain Age at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

It turns out the Gabriels of Richard Nelson's Rhinebeck trilogy voted for the losing candidate

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Review: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzann-Lori Parks takes us on a fantastical ride to reclaim the lives of black people in the history books .

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Friday, November 11, 2016

Review:Falsettos at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

William Finn's chamber musical still sings its way right into your heart.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Review:Notes From The Field at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Anna Deveare Smith's provocative new 17-character solo

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Review: Finian's Rainbow at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

the Irish Rep celebrates its renovated home's completion with this hit-after-hit musical from another era

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Review:Sweat at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes theater goers into the world of blue collar Americans faced with downsized and disappearing manufacturing jobs

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber bring the bored, sexual predators of pre-revolutionary France back to Broadway

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Monday, October 24, 2016

Review: A Life at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Adam Bock's cautionary tale about committing ourselves to life while we can still change

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Review: The Front Page at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's comedy with Nathan Lane heading a cast as much past history as city newsstands with six or seven newspapers

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Review:Plenty at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

David Hare's play gets a stylish revival at the same theater where it premiered in 1982.

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Review: The Cherry Orchard at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A starry cast in a sporadically satisfying new version of Chekhov's last play

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Review: Love, Love, Love at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Brtish playwright Mike Bartlett's latest play gets a well cast, smoothly directed American production

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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Review:Sell/Buy/Date at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Sarah Jones is back on stage with her usual array of characters, this time reflecting on the sex industry

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Friday, October 14, 2016

Review: Christine, at curtainup.com-movies by Elyse Sommer

Bio-drama film features a cast of stellar stage actors

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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Review: Public Enemy at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A slimmed down all too timely one-act version of Ibsen's play at the Pearl Theater

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Review:Oh, Hello On Broadway at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Nick Kroll & John Mulaney make their Broadway debut as their crotchety alter egos

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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Review: The Encounter at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Simon McBurney takes audiences on a unique high and low tech journey to the Amazon

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Friday, October 7, 2016

Review: Holiday Inn at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge's update of the 1942 music as a technicolor family geared Broadway tune

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Monday, October 3, 2016

Review: The Layover at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Patricia Highsmith's noir fiction redux. . .via Lesley Headland

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Review: Maestro at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

The mutlti-faceted Hershey Felder's take on the life and music of the complex and multi-faceted Leonard Bernstein produced by his own aptly named production company Eighty-Eight Entrtainment.

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Friday, September 30, 2016

v Review: The Trial Of An American President at curtainup.coml by Elyse Sommer

a well-intentioned courtroom drama by a politically passionate but inexperienced playwright.

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Review: All the Ways to Say I Love You at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Judith Light lights up the stage in this Neil LaBute solo at the Lortel Theater.

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Monday, September 26, 2016

Review: What Did You Expect at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The second of Richard Nelson's trilogy about the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York set within the context of the endless and surreal presidential campaign.

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Monday, September 19, 2016

Review: A Taste of Honey at curtainup.com/ http://www.curtainup.com/tasteofhoneypearl16.html Review: A Taste of Honey at curtainup.com/ http://www. by Elyse Sommer

the Pearl's lively and still relevant revival of the ground breaking play Shelagh Delaney wrote at the ripe old age of 18. . .

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Review: Marie and Rosetta at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

- A fact based play with music which almost compensates for the flawed script

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Review:  Aubergine at curtainup.com/ http:/ by Elyse Sommer

Julia Cho's sad yet often funny meditaton on death and dying at Playwrights Horizon

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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Review:Fiorello! at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A lively young cast's Off-Broadway debuts in Bock & Harnick's Tony and Pulitzer winning fledgling musical

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Friday, August 26, 2016

Feature:: at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Mozart Dances back in New York after 10 years

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All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off