Sunday, January 13, 2019
★★★★ From Ireland, a tale of two (very different) tortured souls, and towering performances
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2018
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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
★★★★★ 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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:35PM[SHARE]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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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, set …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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, t…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
★★★★ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard's brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
The post The Hard Problem: Puzzling Over Beautiful Enigmas…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM[SHARE]★★★★ Aleshea Harris's new play and "ritual" commemorates violence and a celebrates a community's resilience
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
★★★ 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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2018
★★★★ Will Eno's early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty in tact.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
★★ A new, extravagant musical adaptation offers a feminist but emotionally exploitative take on the classic tale
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
★★★★ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
★★ Topical and vital concerns get mired in banality in the new play marking Kerry Washington's return to Broadway
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
★★★★ Michael Urie shines in a condensed version of Harvey Fierstein's still-pertinent, piercing and accessible comedy
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
★★★ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
★★ Two women separated by age and race find no common humanity in Eleanor Burgess's dispiriting new play
The post The Niceties: Inside Ivy Walls, No Room For Empathy appeared fir…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don't know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
★★★★★ 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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
★★★ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2018
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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson's adaptation Bob Dylan's songs
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
★★★ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
★★★★ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White's moving play.
The post The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain appeared fir…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
★★★★ 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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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 describe…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:29AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 06:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
★★★ 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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