Tuesday, September 18, 2018
★★★★ Douglas McGrath brings the tale of how doing the right society thing is doing the wrong thing
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
★★★★ Shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter skillfully plays many men in Haile Selassie's Ethiopian court
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2018
★★★★★ A nine-cast Top-40 revue from mid-20th century so hot you could sizzle steaks on it
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
★★★ Samantha Barks and Andy Karl topline this Garry Marshall-J. F. Lawton-Bryan Adams-Jim Vallance transfer
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:29PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
★★★ Songwriter Joe Iconis, bookwriter Joe Tracz transfer Ned Vizzini's popular YA novel to the stage
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
★★★ Michael Tucker writes a smart script for six top actors that starts out less than smart
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2018
★★★★★ Replacing Tony Shalhoub, the Isaeli star helps maintain the just-about-perfect chamber musical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2018
★★ The history play combination, directed by Austin Pendleton and Peter Bloch, too often fires blanks
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
★★★★ The stand-up comic who does a lot of commanding the stage talks about his expanding family
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
★★★★ Marcus Gardley pens a history play relevant to today's compromised feminist status
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
★★★★ The comedienne looks back at several decades of being funny while dieting
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
★★★★ John Strand pits conservatism against liberalism in a play as timely as they come
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
★★★ The challenging story of a steel manufacturing family in 1933 Germany struggling to survive
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
★★★ A woman hoping to make something of her life latches on to an ambivalent moviemaker
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
★ John Wulp stage-adapts a medieval mystic's life at great length to small avail
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
★★★★ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris' Cicero novels for Gregory Doran's surging two parts
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Baz Luhrman's dance flick, Muriel Spark's novel take the stage, Strindberg's Miss Julie doesn't take
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
★★★★ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2018
★★★★ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard's jealousy screed
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:15PM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2018
★★★ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
★★★★ Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman go west for a fun and frolicsome take on Shakespeare's "problem" play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
★ Elevator Repair Service goes at Edward Albee's classic to embarrassing results
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
★★★★★ David Byrne's treatise involving culture hero Jacob Bronowski is dramatically ascendent
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
★★★★ Eve Wolf's book calls on actors and musicians to prove argument about aural emotions
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:02PM[SHARE]★★★ Susan Stroman, David Thompson and John Kander get Irina Dvorovenko, Tony Yazbeck on their toes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
★★★★★ A fascinating tribute to the late, great Polish director/author and his Cricot 2 company
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
★ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2018
★ The usually exceptional Maria Aitken runs into trouble directing a cast working overtime to no avail.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2018
★★★★★ Richard Eyre brilliantly directs Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, Rory Keenan and Matthew Beard
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