Tuesday, December 11, 2018
★★★ Amy Heckerling brings unapologetic nostalgia and joy to a musical adaptation of her '90s film, featuring Disney star Dove Cameron
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It was easy to predict that a musical adaptation of Pretty Woman would find fans on Broadway. As producer and veteran film executive Paula Wagner points out, the 1990 movie, starring Julia R…
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When the subject of a Broadway show is an icon of both music and fashion, it’s vital that the piece be dazzling both visually and aurally. To ensure this was the case for The Cher Show, se…
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Teenage outsiders have not traditionally been considered ripe fodder for musical theater — heightened emotions like those expressed in, say, West Side Story notwithstanding. Be More Chill,…
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★★★★ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
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★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard's brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:40PM★★★★ Aleshea Harris's new play and "ritual" commemorates violence and a celebrates a community's resilience
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★★★ Broadway actors invade a Midwestern town to help a teenage lesbian, and themselves, in a new musical comedy helmed by Casey Nicholaw
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★★★★ Will Eno's early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty in tact.
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★★ A new, extravagant musical adaptation offers a feminist but emotionally exploitative take on the classic tale
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★★★★ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play
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★★ Topical and vital concerns get mired in banality in the new play marking Kerry Washington's return to Broadway
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★★★★ Michael Urie shines in a condensed version of Harvey Fierstein's still-pertinent, piercing and accessible comedy
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★★★ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation
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★★ Two women separated by age and race find no common humanity in Eleanor Burgess's dispiriting new play
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★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don't know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play
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★★★★★ Glenn Close brings Joan of Arc's mother to radiant life in a luminous account of women's strength, and love
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★★★ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman.
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With “Homeland” about to end, he’s released his first new albums in more than a decade, with a young pop-minded producer pushing him to take risks.
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★★★★ Bill Irwin offers an exuberant homage to a master of bleakness
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★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson's adaptation Bob Dylan's songs
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★★★ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
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★★★★ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White's moving play.
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★★★★ One of Disney's most enduring screen-to-stage confections remains among its most adult-friendly--and seems freshly relevant, for all ages.
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During a recent rehearsal for the new touring production of Dear Evan Hansen, launching September 25 in Denver, actress Jessica Phillips — who plays Evan’s mom, Heidi — had what she de…
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Cherry Jones has proven herself as one of the greatest actors of her generation with her powerful work in both established and instant classics, from the Broadway productions of The Heiress …
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★★★ Four winning performances and a stunning one add up to an absorbing production of Jen Silverman's entertaining but frustrating play.
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 10:05PMBack when celebrated director Casey Nicholaw was working on the 2010 Broadway musical Elf, he approached members of his creative team with something one of them, composer Matthew Sklar, desc…
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As the fall theater season launches, a string of musicals that have enjoyed success on Broadway in recent years will become available to audiences across the country. Now fans who have just …
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The Book of Mormon. Something Rotten!. The Drowsy Chaperone. What do these boisterously witty, aggressively entertaining, critically lauded musicals have in common? All were choreographed an…
Linked From broadwaydirect.com at 05:39AMTwice Tony Award–nominated actor Christopher Sieber remembers walking to the gym one day several years ago and running into Tony-winning director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw. “And Casey…
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