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Friday, March 24, 2023

'Bad Cinderella' Review: The Title Warned Us by Jesse Green

Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes to extend an unbroken 43-year streak on Broadway. But his 13th new musical may not be the charm.

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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Review: In Bob Fosse's 'Dancin',' a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words by Jesse Green

A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.

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Review: In Fosse's 'Dancin',' a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words by Jesse Green

A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in 'Parade' by Jesse Green

Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond star in a timely and gorgeously sung Broadway revival of the 1998 musical about the Leo Frank case.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Review: In 'The Harder They Come,' Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat by Jesse Green

A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

'A Doll's House' Review: Jessica Chastain Plots an Escape by Jesse Green

Jamie Lloyd's compelling, surgically precise revival of Ibsen's 1879 drama throbs like an episode of "CSI: Norway."

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in 'Love' by Jesse Green

Alexander Zeldin's heartbreaking play set in a temporary housing facility retunes our attention from the big picture to the small accommodations.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Review: A 'Seagull' Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers by Jesse Green

Parker Posey stars in "The Seagull/Woodstock, NY," as Chekhov comes to the Catskills.

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Monday, February 27, 2023

'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' Review: The Sin of Apathy by Jesse Green

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star as Village bohemians in a rare revival of Lorraine Hansberry's indictment of liberal inertia.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in 'A Bright New Boise' by Jesse Green

An early play by Samuel D. Hunter finds the author developing his voice by lending it to the lost souls working at an Idaho Hobby Lobby.

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When 'A Little Touch of Star Quality' Is a Little Too Much by Jesse Green

In upcoming musical revivals, world leaders both real (Imelda Marcos, Eva PerÃ³n) and folkloric (King Arthur) get an image makeover they may not deserve.

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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Review: In 'The Wanderers,' Two Marriages and a Movie Star by Jesse Green

Anna Ziegler's play about an Orthodox couple in the 1970s and an unorthodox one in the 2010s explores the limits of longing.

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

Review: How to Shoot Your Parents, in 'Pictures From Home' by Jesse Green

In a stage adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir, Nathan Lane stars as the father everyone's aiming at.

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Thursday, January 19, 2023

How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. by Jesse Green

From "A Strange Loop" to "Funny Girl," most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

What's Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. by Jesse Green

In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

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Monday, December 19, 2022

Review: In 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' Real Estate Gets Real by Jesse Green

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2014 play finally comes to Broadway, its hilarious, loving and unvarnished vision of the universal human hustle intact.

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Monday, December 12, 2022

Review: 'Merrily We Roll Along' Returns, the Way It Never Was by Jesse Green

Maria Friedman's rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Review: In 'Some Like It Hot,' an Invitation to Liberation by Jesse Green

A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Review: Who Committed the 'Ohio State Murders'? Who Didn't? by Jesse Green

Audra McDonald stars in Adrienne Kennedy's 1991 play about the worst imaginable crime and the world that made it inevitable.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Review: In 'KPOP,' Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute by Jesse Green

The worldwide sensation and American-style musical theater form an awkward alliance onstage.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Review: On Broadway, '& Juliet' (& Britney & Katy & Pink) by Jesse Green

Shakespeare's tragedy becomes a girl-power romp in a cotton candy jukebox musical, featuring songs by the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Review: At 'Camp Siegfried,' a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island by Jesse Green

The lure of fascism comes disguised as adolescent romance in Bess Wohl's disturbing new play.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Review: 'Kimberly Akimbo,' Both Great and Small, Seizes the Day by Jesse Green

The season's most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway.

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Monday, November 7, 2022

Review: In 'Only Gold,' Each Move Is Worth 1,000 Words by Jesse Green

The new Kate Nash dance musical, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, is spectacular as long as you pay no attention to what it's saying.

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Sunday, November 6, 2022

Review: 'You Will Get Sick' Tells the Untellable, for a Price by Jesse Green

In a new Off Broadway play, Linda Lavin shines as a woman paid to say what an ailing young man cannot.

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Review: In 'Almost Famous,' the Heart of Rock 'n' Roll Flatlines by Jesse Green

Cameron Crowe's 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant.

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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory by Jesse Green

In a revival of the 2002 musical "A Man of No Importance," the star of "The Big Bang Theory" achieves something more delicate.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

'Straight Line Crazy' Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses by Jesse Green

Off Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare's sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Review: This Time, 'A Raisin in the Sun' Really Does Explode by Jesse Green

Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not.

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Review: In 'Topdog/Underdog,' Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle by Jesse Green

A latter-day Lincoln and Booth try to survive the American dream in a hilarious, harrowing and superbly acted Broadway revival of the Suzan-Lori Parks play.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Angela Lansbury, Broadway's Beloved Everywoman by Jesse Green

She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.

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