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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

The Best Theater of 2017 by Ben Brantley and Jesse Green

Our chief theater critics on their favorites this year, from "Bruce Springsteen on Broadway" to a host of playwrights tackling life's chaos.

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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Review: 'Once on This Island,' Revived and Ravishing by Jesse Green

After a dismal theatrical fall, this 1990 musical fable, set in the French Antilles, is a big, bold delight.

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Friday, December 1, 2017

5 Shows to See if You're in New York in December by Jesse Green

Dark plays are fitting for a dark month, and perhaps for our national mood. These productions offer criticism, mystery, warning and hope.

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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Review: Uma Thurman, Trapped in Trumpland in 'The Parisian Woman' by Jesse Green

From the creator of "House of Cards," a Washington-based "Dangerous Liaisons" that isn't.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Review: Look Up! It's Amy Schumer in 'Meteor Shower' by Jesse Green

The comic actress makes her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's funny if strained play about two couples sharing a stressful celestial evening together.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Critic's Notebook: Sondheim Two Ways, From Judy Collins and Melissa Errico by Jesse Green

New cabaret shows offer radically different takes on Stephen Sondheim's catalog.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Review: Who Is 'Harry Clarke,' and Why Is He So Appealing? by Jesse Green

Billy Crudup is having a blast as a Midwestern sad sack and his English alter ego in David Cale's one-man, double-life play at the Vineyard.

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Monday, November 20, 2017

Review: A Girl's Kerouac Dreams Go Astray in 'The Mad Ones' by Jesse Green

Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk's musical is about a high school senior who finds inspiration and danger in "On the Road."

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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Review: 'School Girls' Is a Gleeful African Makeover of an American Genre by Jesse Green

Jocelyn Bioh's new play takes the "Mean Girls" genre to a boarding school in Ghana, refreshing and deepening it in the process.

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Review: A Brief 'Brigadoon' That's Almost Like Falling in Love by Jesse Green

City Center's gorgeous revival of the Lerner & Loewe musical, staged by Christopher Wheeldon and starring Kelli O'Hara, disappears after Sunday.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in 'Latin History' by Jesse Green

Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Review: In 'Actually,' a Case of She Said, He Said and They Said by Jesse Green

In Anna Ziegler's new play, a charge of sexual assault on a college campus leads to a hearing that may be worse than the events that prompted it.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Review: 'Office Hour' Is the Play That Goes Bang by Jesse Green

In Julia Cho's tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.

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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Review: 'Uncommon Sense' Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum by Jesse Green

With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Review: In a Double Bill of Physical Comedy, Laughter Is the Best Reflex by Jesse Green

"Marcel" and "The Art of Laughter" at Theater for a New Audience offer a demonstration and then a master class in European-style clowning.

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Broadway's Comic Chameleon Writes a Heartfelt New Tune by Jesse Green

Known for brassy musicals like "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," David Yazbek is also a dark solo act. Now, with "The Band's Visit," his different personas come together.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Review: The Horror Show of Rehab in 'People, Places & Things' by Jesse Green

Denise Gough is sensational as a strung-out actress facing a world of questions about addiction and responsibility in a play by Duncan Macmillan.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Review: Throwback 'Portuguese Kid' Will Do Anything for a Laugh by Jesse Green

With its relentless fusillade of punch lines, John Patrick Shanley's new play starring Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott winds up on the ropes.

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Monday, October 23, 2017

Review: It's Law vs. Order in 'Jesus Hopped the "A" Train' by Jesse Green

A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis's prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Review: The Brilliant Disguises of 'Springsteen on Broadway' by Jesse Green

In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life's work " but also a major revision of it.

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Review: The Future is Always Present in 'Time and the Conways' by Jesse Green

Elizabeth McGovern stars as a narcissistic materfamilias in the first Broadway revival of J. B. Priestley's 1937 metaphysical drama.

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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Review: In 'Too Heavy for Your Pocket,' Who Can Afford Civil Rights? by Jesse Green

A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder's play at Roundabout Underground.

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Monday, October 2, 2017

Review: In 'Breeders,' Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match by Jesse Green

Does having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Review: An 'As You Like It' That Is More Prose Than Poetry by Jesse Green

The director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn't it work?

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Review: In 'Mary Jane,' a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears by Jesse Green

A child's illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog's heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.

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Monday, September 18, 2017

Review: In 'Charm,' Challenges Emily Post Never Dreamed Of by Jesse Green

A transgender etiquette expert faces pupils who have bigger issues than what fork to use in Philip Dawkins's new play.

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Friday, September 15, 2017

Review: A Darker 'Frozen,' With Glints of Ice and Murk by Jesse Green

In its out-of-town tryout, the stage adaptation of the highest-grossing animated movie of all time offers delights and difficulties.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Review: Reimagining 'Peter Pan' for the Lipitor Demographic by Jesse Green

In Sarah Ruhl's "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday," five siblings face the loss of a parent, their own mortality and a fear of flying.

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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire by Jesse Green

The playwright Michael Yates Crowley mixes unlikely genres in "The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias."

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Will the Old Gay Play Have Something New to Say? by Jesse Green

A spate of revivals will allow audiences to consider what's changed, what hasn't, and what Bob Mackie has in the sequin drawer.

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Thursday, August 31, 2017

5 Shows to See if You're in New York in September by Jesse Green

Group weddings, Korean pop, a superannuated Peter Pan and a transgender Emily Post are among the promising theatrical experiences of September.

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