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Fallen Angels (Streaming) by Wendy Caster

I saw Fallen Angels on Broadway and then watched it on BroadwayHD, which I joined just to see it. (I wonder how many new subscribers they got due to Fallen Angels.)Fallen Angels is silly a…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 6:20pm on July 2, 2026

Fear & Wonder by Wendy Caster

The romance at the center of the Flux Theatre Ensemble's new show Fear & Wonder juggles coming-of-age issues, religion,  homophobia, hypocrisy, and deep, deep love in a story that is th…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 6:25am on June 14, 2026

Three Revivals by Wendy Caster

Becky Shaw: I found Becky Shaw's first production unconvincing. Playwright Gina Gionfriddo treated her characters as components of her ideas rather than three-dimensional humans. She gave …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 1:55am on May 31, 2026

Tony Predictions 2026 by Wendy Caster

Broadway keeps chugging along, and so do we. Yes, awards are silly, even stupid. Yes, the choice of Pink is bizarre. But predicting winners is fun, and a yearly review of Broadway is always …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 5:35am on May 23, 2026

Sins and Grace by Wendy Caster

On March 23 and 24th, MasterVoices presented yet another fabulous musical evening. Actually, make that a particularly fabulous musical evening.  Musical Director Ted Sperling juxtaposed F…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:48pm on March 29, 2026

Quick Takes by Wendy Caster

Some quick thoughts on shows I didn't review: Gruesome Playground Injuries: Known theatrical truism: If you get a chance to see Kara Young, see Kara Young. Gruesome Playground Injuries…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:02pm on December 11, 2025

Gotta Dance! by Wendy Caster

The immensely entertaining Gotta Dance!, a creation of American Dance Machine presented by the York Theatre, includes some 17 dance numbers from such classic musicals as A Chorus Line, Sweet…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 3:12am on December 4, 2025

Sweet Smell of Success by Wendy Caster

In a world where the vicious cynics of Succession kept a chunk of the world enthralled for years, you might think that the vicious cynics of the musical Sweet Smell of Success could…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12am on November 26, 2025

Richard II by Wendy Caster

While Richard III has been done 21 times on Broadway, Richard II has been done only seven, most recently in 1957. (Source: ibdb.com) It is certainly less interesting. Richard III is a gra…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 4:18am on November 11, 2025

Crooked Cross by Wendy Caster

In the early 1930s, Sally Carson, an English writer and dancing teacher, spent time in Germany. She then wrote Crooked Cross, which focuses on the insidious growth of Nazism, first as a nove…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 7:12pm on November 1, 2025

Punch by Wendy Caster

Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills J…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 9:36pm on October 22, 2025

Torera by Wendy Caster

Torera vividly depicts the life of Elena, the daughter of the housekeeper in the house of a great torero, who desperately wants to be a bullfighter. The son of the torero is Elena's best …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 9:36pm on October 5, 2025

This Is Government by Wendy Caster

At the start of This Is Government, written by Nina Kissinger and directed by Sarah Norris, three young adults sit in a drab congressional office (nicely realized by Daniel Allen). Against t…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:06pm on October 1, 2025

The Essentialisn't by Wendy Caster

Roughly a third of the way through The Essentialisn't (great title), writer-director-performer Elisa Davis quotes Wikipedia: "Essentialism is the view that every entity has a set of attribu…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 5:06am on September 23, 2025

The Harlem Doll Palace by Wendy Caster

Lenon Hoyte (Aunt Len) was the founder and proprietor of Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum in Harlem. She died in 1999. In the amazing Harlem Doll Palace, which just finished a run at the HERE …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:18pm on June 2, 2025

The Imaginary Invalid by Wendy Caster

In the late 1970s, The Public Theater presented the Yale Rep production of Sganarelle: An Evening of Molière Farces. It was a wonderful evening. One performer was particularly good: Mark…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:18pm on June 2, 2025

Maddie by Wendy Caster

Jan and Nick, a young married couple, have just moved into an apartment in the East Village. It's 1977, they're in their mid-20s, and they've been together 7 years. Their marriage is happy b…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 3:24am on May 21, 2025

The Fat Cat Killers by Wendy Caster

Adam Szymkowicz's entertaining The Fat Cat Killers combines an incompetent-criminals comedy with a take-down of capitalism. Rather than building on or complementing each other, the two co…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 6:36pm on May 13, 2025

2025 Tony Predictions by Wendy Caster

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year's list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Looking …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36pm on May 10, 2025

Blind Injustice by Wendy Caster

That the American justice system is worse than broken--dangerous, dishonest, racist--is not news. Some innocent people have been coerced into confessing, others have accepted plea bargains r…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 7:32am on March 6, 2025

The Price by Wendy Caster

I am not a fan of Arthur Miller's. But I like to revisit works to see if I've missed something. Having recently reread Death of a Salesman and seen the The Village Theater Group pro…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 7:12pm on March 4, 2025

Garside's Career by Wendy Caster

In Garside's Career, written by Harold Brighouse before the first World War, Peter Garside is a skilled mechanic and avid Union member in 1914 Midlanton, England. He has just completed a uni…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 5:18pm on February 26, 2025

Cymbeline by Wendy Caster

The delightful NAATCO-Play on Shakespeare all-femme, all-Asian-American production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline only runs through Feb. 15. If you are a fan of first-class theatre that is…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:42am on February 13, 2025

Mrs. Loman by Wendy Caster

Mrs. Loman, Barbara Cassady's sequel to Death of a Salesman, starts right after Willy's funeral. Linda Loman, her sons Biff and Happy, and next door neighbor Charley and his son Bernard gath…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 5:32pm on February 8, 2025

Gypsy by Wendy Caster

When the curtain came down on Act 1 of Gypsy, my friend Susan said, "She's so wrong and she's so good." Excellent summation! I was one of those who greeted Audra's casting with, she's miscas…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:36pm on January 29, 2025

Show/Boat: A River by Wendy Caster

Based on both the reviews and word of mouth, I went into Target Margin's "re-envisioning" of Show Boat (here called Show/Boat: A River) with low expectations. Sadly, it lived down to them.Â…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:54pm on January 21, 2025

Eureka Day by Wendy Caster

A built-in weakness in some comedies of ideas is that one side of an argument may simply be right. As someone who believes strongly in vaccines, I thought Eureka Day might have to wrestle…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 9:18pm on January 13, 2025

Strike Up the Band by Wendy Caster

Last week, the wonderful MasterVoices presented the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band. In 1927, its book, about a war over cheese tariffs, was written by George F. Kaufman with a pretty sa…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 9:42pm on November 3, 2024

Sump'n Like Wings by Wendy Caster

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) wrote 30 plays, a few of which were produced on Broadway, along with screenplays and poetry. Nowadays he is known--when he is known at all--for having written Green Gr…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 6:32am on October 11, 2024

Honor by Wendy Caster

What is honor? That's a particularly relevant question as we head into the election. Is honor reputation? Or is it something between a person and herself? What value does honor have? Do most…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:12pm on October 4, 2024

In Search of Elaina by Wendy Caster

Annette is winning at life. She has just negotiated a major promotion; her boyfriend Charles is attractive, considerate, and wealthy; their major life challenge is whether to stay in the Upp…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 9:06pm on September 14, 2024

Attorney-Client by Wendy Caster

One is not supposed to focus so much on trees that you miss the forest, right? I get that. But what if they're really big, ugly, focus-grabbing trees? I suspect that Client-Attorney…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 2:32am on September 13, 2024

The Ask by Wendy Caster

There's a little gem playing at the Wild Project through September 28th. One set, 80 minutes, with terrific and compassionate writing (Matthew Freeman), directing (Jessi D. Hill), and acting…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 8:32pm on September 12, 2024

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THE SEASON

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Celebrity Autobiography @ Shubert Theatre
Preview: May 16, 2026 Opening: May 18, 2026 Closing: Jun 21, 2026
Paranormal Activity @ August Wilson Theatre
Preview: Aug 14, 2026 Opening: Aug 25, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2027
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Preview: Sep 08, 2026 Opening: Sep 28, 2026 Closing:
Other Desert Cities @ Hudson Theatre
Preview: Sep 29, 2026 Opening: Oct 18, 2026 Closing: Jan 17, 2027
860 @ Imperial Theatre
Preview: Oct 01, 2026 Opening: Oct 21, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2027
The Imaginary Invalid @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Sep 25, 2026 Opening: Oct 22, 2026 Closing:
A Few Good Men @ Vivian Beaumont Theater
Preview: Oct 08, 2026 Opening: Oct 29, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2026
Wanted @ James Earl Jones Theatre
Preview: Oct 15, 2026 Opening: Nov 08, 2026 Closing:
The Fantasticks @ Hayes Theater
Preview: Oct 22, 2026 Opening: Nov 16, 2026 Closing:
Much Ado About Nothing @ Winter Garden Theatre
Preview: Oct 31, 2026 Opening: Nov 19, 2026 Closing: Jan 10, 2027
Inter Alia @ Music Box Theatre
Preview: Nov 10, 2026 Opening: Dec 01, 2026 Closing: Feb 21, 2027
Galileo @ Shubert Theatre
Preview: Nov 10, 2026 Opening: Dec 06, 2026 Closing:
Awake and Sing! @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Preview: Dec 15, 2026 Opening: Jan 05, 2027 Closing: Mar 01, 2027
Dolly: A True Original Musical @ St. James Theatre
Preview: Dec 07, 2026 Opening: Jan 19, 2027 Closing:
Mix And Master @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Jan 06, 2027 Opening: Jan 27, 2027 Closing:
Three Days Of Rain
Preview: Feb 01, 2027 Opening: Feb 01, 2027 Closing: Feb 01, 2027
Evita @ Winter Garden Theatre
Preview: Feb 27, 2027 Opening: Mar 25, 2027 Closing:
Warriors @ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Preview: Mar 01, 2027 Opening: Apr 01, 2027 Closing:
Gloria @ Hayes Theater
Preview: Mar 17, 2027 Opening: Apr 05, 2027 Closing:
Purple Rain @ Majestic Theatre
Preview: Mar 12, 2027 Opening: Apr 12, 2027 Closing:
The Sound of Music @ Vivian Beaumont Theater
Preview: Mar 23, 2027 Opening: Apr 13, 2027 Closing: Jul 23, 2027
Paddington The Musical @ Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Preview: Mar 30, 2027 Opening: Apr 18, 2027 Closing:
The Full Monty @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Apr 03, 2027 Opening: Apr 25, 2027 Closing:
TBA: Damn Yankees
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TBA: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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