All articles by Michael Sommers
★★☆☆☆ LCT3 hosts a community riff on classical themes by Julia May Jonas
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★★★★☆ Martyna Majok and Aimee Mann craft an intimate drama with songs about women existing in a 1960s psychiatric facility
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★★☆☆☆ Stephen Spinella sparks a triangular romantic drama set in a ghost town
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★★★☆☆ Candy Buckley and a bright ensemble illuminate an incomplete dark comedy by an American master
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★★★☆☆ En Garde Arts stages a new solo show inside a planetarium
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★★★☆☆ Hiran Abeysekera heads a multicultural ensemble in the National Theatre’s visiting production
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★★★☆☆ An English import showcases Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-winning performance as an ugly American
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★★☆☆☆ Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis and Rachel Dratch appear amid a conventional revival of an unconventional musical
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★★★★☆ Alex Brightman leads a dandy company through a salute to musicals like they don’t make them anymore
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★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara take summer stock of Noel Coward's vintage comedy at Roundabout
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★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group's fresh staging of an expressionist drama
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★★★☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Jim Parsons and a merry crew sail off on a little spoof about a big disaster
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★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession
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★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull's staging of Shakespeare's shocker
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★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi's contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters
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★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, and Tonya Pinkins lead a terrific ensemble in Michael John LaChiusa's musical of Roaring '20s madness
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★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep's U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy
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★★★★☆ The Public Theater premieres Anna Ziegler's new version of a very old story
The post Antigone (this play I read in high school): Reclaiming the Heroine's …
★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest
The post Burnout Paradise: Madhouse Multitasking appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
The post What We Did Before Our Moth Days: Four People L…
★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
The post Bigfoot!: Fuzzy and Facetious appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women's sobriety group
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★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
The post The Tragedy of Coriolanus: Much Ado About Multimedia appe…
★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
The post Making a Show of Myself: Positively Personal appeared first on Ne…
★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce's Dubliners
The post From Under the Radar: Ulysses appeared first on New York Stage Review.
The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation
The post From Under the Radar: 'The Visitors' and a Pair of No-Shows appeared fir…
Fresh works from Ireland and Japan arrive in the opening week of the annual festival of innovative theater
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★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon strategically stages Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute chamber opera
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★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
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★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
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★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan's new backstage dramedy studies process and power
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★★★★☆ Andrea Martin sparks David Cromer's Second Stage premiere of a meaningful comedy of racial identity
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★★☆☆☆ Ruthie Ann Miles shines amid Ethan Lipton's respectful musical version of a mad Thornton Wilder classic
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page blazes as a Balkans terrorist in Rajiv Joseph's what-if World War I history play
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★★★☆☆ Anne Washburn's absorbing study of collective existence melts into something else at the finish line
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★★★☆☆ Stephen Kunken is good as a bad guy in a new Royal Shakespeare drama about special interests and global warming
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★★☆☆☆ Expect trashy doings, nonstop name drops, insults, and murder done for fun
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★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock deliver poignant performances in Samuel D. Hunter's quietly lovely drama
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★★★☆☆ Jeb Brown and Matt Rodin head a sweet show done in honky-tonk environs
The post Beau the Musical: Queer as Folk Music appeared first on New York Stage Rev…
★★★☆☆ A scathing Aubrey Plaza and sharp others, plus Nellie McKay, light up Ethan Coen's new comedies
The post Let's Love!: Women Through a Guy's Eyes appeared …
★★☆☆☆ Jordan E. Cooper delivers a multifarious father and son drama, with songs
The post Oh Happy Day!: Too Much Mo' appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★☆☆☆ Mint Theater discovers a 1935 drama about the Nazi takeover of German society
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★★★☆☆ Comedian Abby Wambaugh delivers an appealing solo show at Dixon Place
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★★★☆☆ Tim Blake Nelson unveils a dark, pervasively dystopian tale at La MaMa
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★★★☆☆ Michael Hayden and Samantha Mathis lead Irish Rep's premiere of an unexpected thriller
The post The Honey Trap: Dishing Out a Potent Blend of Genres appea…
★★☆☆☆ John Leguizamo delivers an ambitious new drama depicting a Latino-American family's troubles
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★★★☆☆ Richard Nelson's cozy new drama studies an acting troupe during wartime
The post When the Hurlyburly's Done: what's the Ukrainian word for apple? appeared…
★★★☆☆ Japan Society commissions a solo drama based upon a celebrated novel
The post Kinkakuji: Minimalist Mishima appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★★☆☆ Ibsen's tragicomedy depicts a family wrecked by a righteous friend
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