Monday, June 17, 2019
★★★★Michael J. Jackson takes on identity, and Tyler Perry, in a funny, haunting and truly original new musical
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★★★★ Duncan Sheik and Lynn Nottage team up for a musical adaptation of the long-cherished novel
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★★★ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn's intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War's early stages
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★★★ The acclaimed play looking at slavery's enduring legacy returns to Ars Nova
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★★★★ Kathryn Erbe is radiant as a middle-aged matron seeking a fresh start after crushing trauma
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The musical theater veteran, 86, will nod at her signature roles in new performances at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
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★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg's new play, starring Susan Sarandon and Marin Ireland, puts funny, vexing twists on suburban cliches
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★★★ A one-woman play casts Alice Ripley as the mother of a gender-neutral teen
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★★★★ Terry Kinney's witty. wrenching new production reveals the 1976 Sam Shepard classic as a play for our times
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Early on a Monday evening, the principal cast members of the new Broadway musical Beetlejuice — currently up for eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical — have gathered at their venue,…
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★★★ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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★★★★ James Graham's new play traces the rise of the British tabloid that helped launch a global media empire
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★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac's brilliant Broadway debut
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★★★★ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin's direction
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★★★★ Michael Stuhlbarg makes a triumphant return to the Public Theater in Tim Blake Nelson's bracing, probing new play
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:54PMWhen acclaimed singer/singwriter Anaïs Mitchell first crafted the music, lyrics, and concept for what would become the musical Hadestown, there were few signs her journey would lead to Broa…
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★★★ Daniel Fish's acclaimed new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic offers plenty of ambition but not enough joy
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★★★★ Glenda Jackson makes another welcome return, leading a supple cast in Shakespeare's tragedy
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★★ Young playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg offers an absurdist, simplistic look at sexism in the workplace
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★★★★★ Sam Mendes's stunning production of Stefano Massini's rise-and-fall epic arrives in New York
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★★★ Broadway's latest jukebox musical mixes timeless music, exuberantly performed, with time-worn platitudes
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★★★★★ Maryann Plunkett and Ciarán O’Reilly lead a first-rate ensemble in a searing revival of the "Dublin Trilogy" entry
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★★ A radiant Isabelle Huppert tries to breathe life into Florian Zeller's account of a woman's isolation
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While Tony Award–winning scenic designer Mimi Lien was preparing for this season’s Broadway revival of True West, Sam Shepard’s blazing account of fraternal warfare, she drew inspirati…
Linked From Broadway Direct at 04:47AMFour-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening had not taken a role in a Broadway production since collecting a Tony Award nomination for her debut performance, more than 30 years ago, in the Tina H…
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★★★★★ The creators of Spring Awakening draw inspiration from Lewis Carroll, with luminous results
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 08:51PMFor playwright Dominique Morisseau, one of the sweetest parts of making her Broadway debut is being able to bring her hometown with her. Kennedy Prize winner, two-time Obie Award winner, and…
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★★★★ Madeleine George's funny, thought-provoking new play finds a Greek god returning as a gender-bending gardener
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★★★★ 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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