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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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PM[SHARE]Back 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:39AM[SHARE]Twice 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 was…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
★★★★ A musical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy champions diversity with a light hand, a full heart, and an effervescent score.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
★★★ A new rock opera set in 1979-80 New York may move and even thrill you, but offers few insights.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
★★★ A new show from the long-established troupe makes us ponder the power of quiet contemplation and connection.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
★★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre's Charlotte Moore refreshes the Lane/Lerner musical while mining its enduring charms
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2018
★★★★ Jordan Harrison explores the challenges of moving forward in a provocative new play.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PM[SHARE]Before Nick Scandalios began working with the Nederlander Organization more than 30 years ago, he spent some time in front of the footlights himself: He played Tony in his high school's prod…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
★★★ Joshua Harmon and Idina Menzel look at the search for eternal youth and the bad behavior it can encourage
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2018
★★★ Antoinette Nwandu's account of doomed black men is powerful and vexing, on different levels.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
★★★ David Byrne draws on an acclaimed book to ponder our animal nature and other big ideas in a theatrical context
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
The 2018 Tony Awards, set to air live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS this Sunday night (June 10), will mark the 72nd time Broadway insiders have gathered to honor the best of the season w…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:14AM[SHARE]The nominees in acting categories for this year's Tony Awards include rising and established stars, from previous winners and returning favorites to performers who made their Broadway bows d…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:12AM[SHARE]The past Broadway season offered no shortage of classics, from revered plays by Eugene O'Neill and one of his better-known admirers, Tony Kushner, to the Golden Age musicals of Rodgers and H…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
How do you reveal the heart of a 2,000-pound, 20-foot-high gorilla? That was one of the challenges facing the team behind King Kong, the new musical set to arrive in New York " about a mile …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
★★★ A radiant Lois Smith leads a supple cast in a not-always-fresh look at family dysfunction and mortality.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2018
★★★★★ Director Phylicia Rashad mines the spiritual curiosity under Stephen Adly Guirgis's exquisitely crushing dialogue in a stirring revival.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
From new stories incorporating familiar characters to fresh takes on historical and current events, this year's Tony Award-nominated plays and musicals spoke to contemporary audiences in way…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
For Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady has always been, at its core, Eliza Doolittle's story. While the celebrated director's new Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner and Loewe's beloved mus…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:30AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
★★★ The second play in a trilogy by Dominique Morisseau looks at jazz and change in a gentrifying city.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2018
★★★ Maria Aitken's new staging of Shakespeare's romantic comedy lacks consistency but offers lovely touches, and all ends well.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
★★★★ Christian Borle leads an excellent cast in a buoyant concert staging of the British trifle-turned-Broadway hit.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
★★★ Alan Ayckbourn's latest play follows a man's life and times through his relationships with women
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
★★★★ Condola Rashad shows us the humanity and humility of Shaw's historical heroine in Daniel Sullivan's excellent new production.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:16PM[SHARE]The acclaimed British playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne was already 18 when J.K. Rowling released the first of her Harry Potter novels, and he was in his early twenties when he started…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
★★★ A new jukebox musical, despite predictable shortcomings, has a worthy subject and a winning spirit.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
★★★★ The boy who lived is a troubled father, in a haunting, exhilarating two-part play conceived by J.K. Rowling with top theater artists.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
★★★★★ Director Jack O'Brien, choreographer Justin Peck and an excellent cast revive this most harrowing and rapturous of musicals.
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