On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating The post Intermission Talk: How Broadway Singing Fell Sway to Pop Music’s Excesses, and Why There’s Hope…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:14PM★★★☆☆ 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 …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★★ 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 08:00PM★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:20AM★★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM★★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:45PM★★★ Playwright Alice Birch looks at one of our closest, most fraught relationships, with a cast led by a haunting Carla Gugino The post Anatomy of a Suicide: Mothers and Daughters, in …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★ In Lily Akerman's new play, three's a crowd and four is insufferable The post The Commons: Hell Is Other People appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PM★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:01PM★★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PM★★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:18AM★★★ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music The post BOOM: Talkin’ ‘Bout His Mom’s Generation appeared first…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PM★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore's direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault The post London Assurance: High Jinks Among the High-Born appe…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM★★★★★ Ödön von Horváth's morally charged thriller gets a fresh adaptation (by Christpher Shinn) in a stunning new production The post Judgment Day: The Roar, and Lure, of the Cr…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AM★★★★ The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright finds humor, despair and survival in a halfway house The post Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: A Purgatory Where Women Lead, and Suff…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:54PM★★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PM★★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM★★★★ 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 …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:46AM★★★ A new musical examines decades of injustice, and hope, through the eyes of a father and daughter The post Broadbend, Arkansas: A Family’s African-American Dreams, and Struggles a…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PM★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★★ 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 …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:29PM★★★★ Deb Margolin's beautifully crafted, powerfully acted reflection on greed and guilt and the crime of the 21st century returns The post Imagining Madoff: Crimes and Consequences, …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:28PM★★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM★★★★★ 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.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:42PM★★★ 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…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM★★★★ 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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