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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Review: 'The Minutes,' an Official History of American Horror by Jesse Green

In Tracy Letts's new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Review: In 'American Buffalo,' Grift Is the Coin of the Realm by Jesse Green

Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss star in an electric revival of the David Mamet play about capitalism in a junk shop.

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Review: 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' Now Noseless and Drunk on Words by Jesse Green

James McAvoy gives a ravishing performance, without benefit of prosthetics or props, in a new adaptation alive with the love of language.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Review: 'To My Girls,' a Toast to Millennial 'Instagays' by Jesse Green

Put three gay frenemies in a Palm Springs Airbnb and what happens? In JC Lee's new comedy, not enough.

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Monday, April 4, 2022

Review: In 'Take Me Out,' Whose Team Are You On? by Jesse Green

Richard Greenberg's 2002 play about baseball and homophobia gets a fine revival starring Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

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Sunday, April 3, 2022

Review: In 'Paradise Square,' Racial Harmony Turns to Discord by Jesse Green

In a new musical starring Joaquina Kalukango, the love between Black and Irish New Yorkers in a Manhattan bar is threatened by Civil War riots.

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Thursday, March 31, 2022

Review: In 'I Agree to the Terms,' It's Raining Pennies From Amazon by Jesse Green

The Builders Association explores the world of turkers, workers performing thousands of weird, low-paying tasks for an online giant.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Review: In 'Oratorio for Living Things,' the Song Is You by Jesse Green

Heather Christian's rapturous new music-theater work turns a tiny amphitheater into a vast cathedral of sound.

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Monday, March 28, 2022

Review: In 'Plaza Suite,' the Ghosts of #MeToo Haunt the Halls by Jesse Green

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a Neil Simon comedy that no longer feels very funny.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

'At the Wedding' Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross by Jesse Green

A trenchant new comedy by Bryna Turner features Mary Wiseman in a comic tour-de-force as the guest most likely to make a scene.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Review: In 'sandblasted,' Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. by Jesse Green

When their body parts start falling off, two women go on a spiritual journey with an Oprah-esque guru in Charly Evon Simpson's new play.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

'Review: Learning 'English,' When Your Accent Is a 'War Crime' by Jesse Green

In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.

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'Plaza Suite' and Other Broadway Revivals Glimpse Our Theatrical Past by Jesse Green

New productions of American plays that debuted between 1942 and 2002 offer glimpses into the world in which they first emerged " and into ours.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Review: In 'Black No More,' Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn't by Jesse Green

A new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, 'The Music Man' Goes Flat by Jesse Green

Sutton Foster also stars in this neat, perky, overly cautious Broadway revival of a musical that needs to be more of a con.

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Review: 'The Tap Dance Kid,' Still Out of Step With the Times by Jesse Green

The Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn't quite right then and isn't quite right now.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

'MJ' Review: Michael Jackson Musical Won't Look in the Mirror by Jesse Green

A new jukebox musical tells the story of Michael Jackson. Except for the big story.

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Monday, January 31, 2022

Review: In 'Intimate Apparel,' Letting the Seamstress Sing by Jesse Green

Lynn Nottage's play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by history.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Review: In 'Skeleton Crew,' Making Quick Work of Hard Labor by Jesse Green

Dominique Morisseau's 2016 play, now on Broadway, is a swift, well-crafted look at factory workers trapped in an economic "dumpster fire."

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Review: A Shorter 'Long Day's Journey,' Now With N95s by Jesse Green

The Eugene O'Neill classic, set in 1912, is just as powerful in Robert O'Hara's revival, set in our own age of disease and lockdown.

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Monday, January 17, 2022

In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl by Jesse Green

Excellent performances, including one by a well-behaved dog, warm up two experimental plays upstate.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

'Intelligent Life' Review: Cecily Strong's 'Awerobics' Workout by Jesse Green

Taking Lily Tomlin's roles in a revival of Jane Wagner's metaphysical comedy, the "Saturday Night Live" star is put through her paces.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn't Mean Agreeing About All of It by Jesse Green and Maya Phillips

Two critics on the joys (and pains) of a tentatively hopeful fall season.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty by Jesse Green

In recent musicals, hyperdesign is outstripping writing and direction for clarity, expressiveness and excitement.

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Monday, December 13, 2021

Review: In 'Flying Over Sunset,' Getting High With the Stars by Jesse Green

A new musical imagines the all-singing, all-dancing LSD trips of Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, 'Company' Loves Misery by Jesse Green

Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

'Kimberly Akimbo' Review: What's an Anagram for 'Wonderful'? by Jesse Green

Victoria Clark stars in a playful yet powerful musical about a girl who is aging too fast among adults who behave like children.

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Friday, November 26, 2021

Stephen Sondheim: The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear by Jesse Green

With a childlike sense of discovery, Stephen Sondheim found the language to convey the beauty in harsh complexity.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

'Clyde's' Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich by Jesse Green

In Lynn Nottage's bright new comedy, cooks at a greasy spoon dream of remaking the menu " and their lives.

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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Review: 'Trouble in Mind,' 66 Years Late and Still On Time by Jesse Green

Alice Childress's 1955 play about power and race in the theater is a satire and a tragedy that deserves to be a classic.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

'Diana, the Musical' Review: Exploiting the People's Princess by Jesse Green

The tabloid press and the monarchy used the Princess of Wales for their own purposes, and now a new Broadway show does the same.

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