Wednesday, March 25, 2020
On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating
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★★★☆☆ A well-meaning new play documents a family's struggles after being separated from its undocumented matron
The post 72 Miles to Go: A Family Torn by Borders appeared first on …
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★★★★ A new play reflects on a literary hero, and on the toll and rewards of inspiration
The post Mr. Toole: A Creative Life Cut Short, Leaving Love and Anguish Behind appeared first …
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★★★ Paul Muldoon's feverishly elegiac poem makes its American stage debut
The post Incantata: Making Art Out of Grief appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★★ Dick Scanlan and Kathleen Marshall overhaul the Meredith Willson musical, with delightful results
The post The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Bellying Up to a New Century appeared firs…
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★★★ C.A. Johnson's tender new play is illuminated by a vibrant young character, and actress
The post All the Natalie Portmans: A Troubled Girl and Her Movie Star Muse appeared first on…
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★★★★ Ivo van Hove shoots sparks into space with a fresh take on a musical masterwork
The post West Side Story: A New Time For Us appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★ Playwright Alice Birch looks at one of our closest, most fraught relationships, with a cast led by a haunting Carla Gugino
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★★ In Lily Akerman's new play, three's a crowd and four is insufferable
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★★ From Mint Theater, a strangely soporific pairing of plays based on stories by creative giants
The post Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: From Russia with Languor appeared first on New Yo…
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★★★ Sarah Einspanier's new play follows young searchers in the digital age
The post House Plant: Humans Seeking Nourishment and Connection appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★★ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone's harrowing tragedy, "after" the Euripides classic
The post Medea: Another Woman on the Verge, and Past It appeared first on N…
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★★★★ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen—of our smartphones.
The post Emojiland: Once You Get Restarted appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music
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★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore's direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault
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★★★★★ Ödön von Horváth's morally charged thriller gets a fresh adaptation (by Christpher Shinn) in a stunning new production
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 02:01PMOne was in “Game of Thrones.” One is still in high school. They all act and play instruments. And in a new show they portray scrappy Dubliners creating a band.
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★★★★ The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright finds humor, despair and survival in a halfway house
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★★★★ Tony Kushner's first play gets an update, and a stellar cast, in a new Public Theater production
The post A Bright Room Called Day: A Call to Action, Refreshed appeared first on…
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★★★★ Playwright Will Eno and director Kenny Leon find meaning, and commonality, in life's little moments
The post The Underlying Chris: The Circle of Life, Through a Rainbow of Lense…
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★★★★ A new musical (based on the novel) casts the iconic genius as a romantic lead
The post Einstein’s Dreams: Love and Science Merge, with Relative Success appeared first on New Y…
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★★★★ Maia Reficco and a sublime Solea Pfeiffer divide the role of the historical diva in a sparkling new production
The post Evita: Come Share Her Glory, with Two Actresses appeared …
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★★★ A new musical examines decades of injustice, and hope, through the eyes of a father and daughter
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★★ Broadway's latest jukebox tribute honors the queen of rock and soul
The post Tina: Trying, Too Hard, to Catch Fire appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★ Kathleen Chalfant turns in a luminous performance as Emily Dickinson's editor in a new play by Rebecca Gilman
The post A Woman of the World: Promoting a Poet, and Herself appeared …
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★★★★ Deb Margolin's beautifully crafted, powerfully acted reflection on greed and guilt and the crime of the 21st century returns
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★★★★ Harvey Fierstein remembers, and plays, "Battling Bella" Abzug
The post Bella Bella: Tribute to a Champion, of Feminism and More appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★ In a new musical, an aspiring rocker takes us to Heaven and Hell—and tries to upstage Gary Busey
The post Only Human: Giving the Devil His Due, and Then Some appeared first on New Y…
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★★★★★ David Byrne brings good vibes and great music to Broadway
The post American Utopia: In Times of Trouble, Bringing on the Funk appeared first on New York Stage Review.
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★★★ Young readers' hero Percy Jackson and his fellow misfits arrive on the musical stage
The post The Lightning Thief: Half-Gods and Monsters, at Summer Camp appeared first on New York…
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★★★★ Millennial survivors take a road trip in Catya McCullen's new play
The post Georgia Mertching Is Dead: Three Amigas Who’ve Been to Hell and Back appeared first on New York Sta…
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