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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

White Noise: Suzan-Lori Parks Offers a Brilliant Approach to Racism by David Finkle

★★★★★ Oskar Eustis neatly helms a work best seen before its heady contents are noised about The post White Noise: Suzan-Lori Parks Offers a Brilliant Approach to Racism appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Juno and the Paycock: Sean O’Casey’s Tragedy In Top-Drawer Revival by David Finkle

★★★★ Neil Pepe directs an inspired cast, headed by Ciaran O'Reilly, Maryann Plunkett and John Keating The post Juno and the Paycock: Sean O’Casey’s Tragedy In Top-Drawer Revival …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:44PM
Sunday, March 17, 2019

After: Battling Parents with Combative Sons Ferociously Lock Horns by David Finkle

★★★★ Michael McKeever's play, directed by Joe Brancato with a strong cast, disturbs with great effect The post After: Battling Parents with Combative Sons Ferociously Lock Horns appe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:39PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Surely, Goodness and Mercy: A 12-Year Old Good But Maybe Too Good by David Finkle

★★★ Chisa Hutchinson's play includes the 23rd psalm and is just as hopeful The post Surely, Goodness and Mercy: A 12-Year Old Good But Maybe Too Good appeared first on New York Stage R…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Sunday, March 10, 2019

If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka: Black Sure Is Beautiful Here by David Finkle

★★★★ Tori Sampson's allegory heartily examines beauty definitions, with Leah C. Gardiner directing The post If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka: Black Sure Is Beautiful Here appe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Fleabag: Waller: A Very Funny Girl With Sex Always on Her Mind by David Finkle

★★★★ Phoebe Waller-Bridge arrives from Great Britain, impressing stateside audiences with her talent The post Fleabag: Waller: A Very Funny Girl With Sex Always on Her Mind appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:55PM
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Imagining Madoff: Deb Margolin’s Imagination Runs Brilliantly Wild by David Finkle

★★★★ The Ponzi criminal seen raving and ranting in a knock-out performance by Jeremiah Kissel The post Imagining Madoff: Deb Margolin’s Imagination Runs Brilliantly Wild appeared f…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PM
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Dying in Boulder: Linda Faigao-Hall’s Drama Dies More Than One Way by David Finkle

★★★ A Buddhist-style death wish is examined from a perspective not sympathetic to religion The post Dying in Boulder: Linda Faigao-Hall’s Drama Dies More Than One Way appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM
Monday, February 25, 2019

Marys Seacole: An Everywoman Play That Hits and Misses Targets by David Finkle

★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury's work tributes a famous healer but doesn't entirely heal itself The post Marys Seacole: An Everywoman Play That Hits and Misses Targets appeared first on Ne…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Play That Goes Wrong: Rarely Does Anything Go So Right by David Finkle

★★★★★ The long-running British send-up moves to a new address, keeping its old hilarity The post The Play That Goes Wrong: Rarely Does Anything Go So Right appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fictionalized by David Finkle

★★★★ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man The post Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fictionalized appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:15PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

My Very Own British Invasion: A Warped Brit-Based Jukebox Tuner by David Finkle

★★ Herman's Hermit's lead singer Peter Noone's story, via Rick Elice, with nostalgic rock ditties The post My Very Own British Invasion: A Warped Brit-Based Jukebox Tuner appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:27AM
Sunday, February 10, 2019

The Light: Playwright Loy A. Webb Tackles Woman-Man Problem by David Finkle

★★★★ McKinley Belcher III and Mandi Masden give their impressive all under director Logan Vaughn The post The Light: Playwright Loy A. Webb Tackles Woman-Man Problem appeared first o…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM

Mies Julie and The Dance of Death: Strindberg Strengthened, Weakened by David Finkle

Yale Farber's Mies Julie ★★★★ smartly transforms Strindberg, while The Dance of Death revival ★★ merely smarts The post Mies Julie and The Dance of Death: Strindberg Strengthe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PM
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Call Me Madam: Irving Berlin’s Tuneful Laugh at 1950s Politics by David Finkle

★★★★ Carmen Cusack goes for broke and nicely gets there in the satirical Ethel Merman showcase The post Call Me Madam: Irving Berlin’s Tuneful Laugh at 1950s Politics appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58AM
Monday, January 28, 2019

Gatz: Elevator Repair Service’s Penthouse-High Great Gatsby Transfer by David Finkle

★★★★★ Every word of Fitzgerald's masterwork faithfully read and acted with loving urgency The post Gatz: Elevator Repair Service’s Penthouse-High Great Gatsby Transfer appea…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:46PM
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Eddie and Dave: Amy Staats Salutes Van Halen With a Half-Salute by David Finkle

★★★ A musical spoof that amuses for a while before becoming a typical rock-band demise tale The post Eddie and Dave: Amy Staats Salutes Van Halen With a Half-Salute appeared first on N…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Trick or Treat: A Bold Play About Dementia Gets Less and Less Bold by David Finkle

★★ Playwright John Neary presents a Northeastern family is a much distress as the proceedings are The post Trick or Treat: A Bold Play About Dementia Gets Less and Less Bold appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:00PM
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Behind the Sheet: Charly Evon Simpson Smart on Women’s Problems by David Finkle

★★★★ How a surgeon in the South uses slave women to solve complicated labor developments The post Behind the Sheet: Charly Evon Simpson Smart on Women’s Problems appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Monday, January 14, 2019

Maestro: Toscanini Conducts Beautiful Music Again by David Finkle

★★★★ Eve Wolf's newest look at a supernal artist, with six musicians added to lend their proficient all The post Maestro: Toscanini Conducts Beautiful Music Again appeared first on N…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Monday, January 7, 2019

Under the Radar: Hear Word! Naija Women Talk True, Frankenstein by David Finkle

★★★★ A Nigerian all-female troupe proclaim their independence ★★ The Manual Cinema group takes on Shelley The post Under the Radar: Hear Word! Naija Women Talk True, Frankenstein…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:30PM
Thursday, January 3, 2019

The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes: An Off-Center Gaze at the Future by David Finkle

★★★ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically The post The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes: An Off-Center Gaze at the Future appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:00PM
Monday, December 24, 2018

Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wide Holiday Greetings by David Finkle

★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries The post Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wide Holiday Greetings …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:11PM
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Network: Ivo van Hove Brings the 1976 Oscar-Winning Film Glaringly to the Stage by David Finkle

★★★ Bryan Cranston plays Paddy Chayevsky's addled newscaster Howard Beale amid all sorts of distracting goings-on The post Network: Ivo van Hove Brings the 1976 Oscar-Winning Film Gla…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Monday, December 3, 2018

The Cher Show: Just as Sassy, Bold and Determined as the Star Herself by David Finkle

★★★★ Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond play Sonny's erstwhile partner with the absolutely right style The post The Cher Show: Just as Sassy, Bold and Determined as …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:35PM
Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Musical Is Welcome by David Finkle

★★★★ Songwriter Peter Mills and Prospect Theater Company celebrate pioneering Great War telephone operators The post The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Musical Is Welcome …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Monday, November 19, 2018

The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and Cleverly Solves His Latest Theater Problem by David Finkle

★★★★ Consciousness is on the playwright's mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it The post The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and C…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:35PM
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Why Not Blame the Internet? by David Finkle

★★★ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat The post Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Why Not Bl…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-Tyrant Allegory Doesn’t Rise High Enough by David Finkle

★★ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle's Neo-Brechtian(?) production. The post The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-T…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism Today by David Finkle

★★★★ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today's race relations The post Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Monday, November 5, 2018

I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns by David Finkle

★★★★ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute The post I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:30PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic