Tuesday, February 12, 2019
★★★★ A hip-hop improv group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an exuberant return
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:59PM★★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre's Sean O'Casey season kicks off with this piercing look at Ireland's troubles before The Troubles.
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:55PMWhen Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson’s Burn This first opened on Broadway in 1987, its four-member cast included a luminous young actress named Joan Allen — already an accomplished …
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Busch’s latest cabaret show, “Native New Yorker,” brings a change of sartorial style and the music of the 1970s to Feinstein’s/54 Below.
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★★★★★ Laura Benanti and other new recruits bring fresh joy and fire to Bartlett Sher's ravishing revival
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★★★★ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano make their own mark in the first Broadway revival of this modern classic
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★★★★ A storied rock & roll rivalry is revisited hilariously, with a gender twist (and tenderness), in Amy Staats's new play
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While Harvey Fierstein was getting the Tony Award–winning musical Kinky Boots on its feet, he and a few collaborators coined a term for the show: “The Happiness Factory.” As everyone n…
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★★★ Three new one-act plays by Neil LaBute find men and women grappling with contemporary and historical issues
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★★★★ From Ireland, a tale of two (very different) tortured souls, and towering performances
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Phish at the Garden, drag shows in Brooklyn, jazz in the Village, comedy perilously close to Times Square and more: Where to laugh, dance, mosh and jam in 2019.
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★★★ The holiday favorite returns to Madison Square Garden, with Gavin Lee as the titular grouch
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★★★★★ Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reintroduce Harper Lee's beloved work as a play for our times, or any other
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★★★ 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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