Tuesday, April 19, 2022
★★★★☆ In the play's long overdue Broadway premiere, original stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and director Mark Brokaw mine its wry humor and horror
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:53PMSunday, April 3, 2022
★★★★☆ Choreographer Bill T. Jones and a vibrant cast led by Joaquina Kalukango make a Civil War musical fly
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:56PMThursday, March 17, 2022
★★★★☆ The stage and screen star and his collaborators pump fresh blood into this ode to New York's mean streets
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:44PMThursday, March 10, 2022
★★★★☆ A fine ensemble cast serves Peter Gil-Sheridan's study of a successful man trying, against all odds, to make a difference
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:12PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
★★★★☆ Martin Platt once again helms a bracing revival of the socially and emotionally charged play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:01PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
★★★★★ In Hansol Jung's heartbreaking play, an adopted boy assumes a lupine identity while trying to find a place to call home
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:45PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage and Christopher Wheeldon tackle Michael Jackson's troubling life and transcendent art
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:49PM★★★★★ Joshua Harmon's latest play movingly, fearlessly explores anti-Semitism, past and present
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:52PMSunday, January 23, 2022
★★★★☆ Taylor Mac's latest work is a jazz-infused opera tracing the trial and death of philosophy's founding father
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:00PMThursday, January 20, 2022
★★★☆☆Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's ghost story finally arrives in New York
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMMonday, December 13, 2021
★★★★☆ A new musical by James Lapine, Tom Kitt and Michael Korie finds icons bonding, with a little help from LSD
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PMThursday, December 9, 2021
★★★★☆ Marianne Elliott's acclaimed modern spin on the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth classic arrives in New York
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PMThursday, November 18, 2021
★★★★☆ Alice Childress's biting play-within-a-play finally arrives on Broadway, more than sixty years after its premiere
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:52PMWednesday, November 17, 2021
★★☆☆☆A new musical offers a peek at the late Princess of Wales, and a lot of costume changes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:22PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
★★★★☆The Oscar-winning short film becomes a buoyant musical, in which Diana Ross looms large
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:39PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
★★★★☆ A London-based revival showcases the emotional range of the Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori musical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PMFriday, October 15, 2021
★★★☆☆ Lili Taylor plays Shawn's tortured traveler in a revival of the Obie Award-winning play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
★★★★★ Young characters search for love and belonging, under duress, in Martyna Majok's shattering new play
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:57PMThursday, September 9, 2021
★★★★★ The playwright and director completes his Rhinebeck Panorama with a typically nourishing, and trenchant, work.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:06PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
The Great American Songbook, jazz, drag and more are returning to the small stages where intimacy and audience interaction are so key.
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★★★★☆ Simon Stephens's stark, lyrical adaptation of the novel arrives in New York, for socially distanced audiences
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PMSunday, December 13, 2020
★★★★☆ The restless multihyphenate revisits the season, virtually
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:20AMThursday, October 22, 2020
Teens competing for the New York Cabaret Convention are proving that young people are invested in the Great American Songbook.
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★★★★☆ Anne Washburn and direct Saheem Ali mix the fantastical with the naturalistic in an audio version of this "History Play About 2017"
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
Making performances more accessible to audiences is part of the mission. Presenting shows that reflect the moment is another.
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Nelson's Apple Family returns, virtually, to engage and comfort deprived theater fans
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:20PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:14PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
★★★☆☆ A well-meaning new play documents a family's struggles after being separated from its undocumented matron
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
★★★★ 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 …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMThursday, February 27, 2020
★★★ Paul Muldoon's feverishly elegiac poem makes its American stage debut
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:20AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
★★★★ Dick Scanlan and Kathleen Marshall overhaul the Meredith Willson musical, with delightful results
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM 
