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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Review: A Glorious 'Titanic,' Returned From the Depths by Jesse Green

Maury Yeston's score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Review: In a Nostalgic Revival, 'Home' Is Where the Heart Was by Jesse Green

Samm-Art Williams's 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Review: In 'Breaking the Story,' All's Unfair in Love and War by Jesse Green

Maggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Review: In 'Three Houses,' a Dark Karaoke Night of the Soul by Jesse Green

It's open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy's hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tony Awards 2024: Who Will Win (and Who Should) by Jesse Green

Our chief theater critic names the shows and artists he thinks will win, should win and should have been nominated " and suggests a few new categories.

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Monday, May 13, 2024

Review: A New Lens on Auschwitz in 'Here There Are Blueberries' by Jesse Green

Archivists are the heroes of a documentary play about a photograph album depicting daily life among the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic 'Uncle Vanya' by Jesse Green

Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it's Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

'Mary Jane' Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care by Jesse Green

Amy Herzog's heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.

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Monday, April 22, 2024

'Patriots' Review: What Happened to the Man Who Made Putin? by Jesse Green

Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan's cheesy-fun play, it's not always clear which is which.

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

'Cabaret' Review: Dancing, and Screaming, at the End of the World by Jesse Green

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Review: In 'Suffs,' the Thrill of the Vote and How She Got It by Jesse Green

Shaina Taub's new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women's suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Review: In 'Sally & Tom,' Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce by Jesse Green

The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks's hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Review: It's No Sunday in the Park With 'Lempicka' by Jesse Green

A musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Review: In 'The Outsiders,' a New Song for the Young Misfits by Jesse Green

The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Christopher Durang, the Surrealist of Snark by Jesse Green

In works like "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

'The Who's Tommy' Review: Going Full Tilt by Jesse Green

Will the Who's rock opera about a traumatized boy hit the jackpot again?

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

'Water for Elephants' Review: Beauty Under the Big Top by Jesse Green

The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Review: An Affair to Dismember, in the Gory Musical 'Teeth' by Jesse Green

A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Review: Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People,' Starring Jeremy Strong by Jesse Green

The "Succession" star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen's play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

'The Notebook' Review: A Musical Tear-Jerker or Just All Wet? by Jesse Green

The 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Review: In 'Doubt,' What He Knows, She Knows, God Knows by Jesse Green

Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley's moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.

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Review: Welcome to 'Illinoise,' Land of Love, Grief and Zombies by Jesse Green

Sufjan Stevens's 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Cast Album Roundup: 'Sweeney Todd,' 'Parade,' 'Camelot' and More by Jesse Green

Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here's a ranking of last year's crop, with samples and bonus tracks.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

'The Ally' Review: Social Justice as a Maddening Hall of Mirrors by Jesse Green

Itamar Moses's play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it doesn't offer much drama.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

'Jelly's Last Jam' Review: A Musical Paradise, Even in Purgatory by Jesse Green

Did Jelly Roll Morton "invent" jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form's founding fathers.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Broadway's Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life by Jesse Green

Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Review: In 'The Apiary,' the Bees Have a Troubling Tale to Tell by Jesse Green

Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

'Russian Troll Farm' Review: A Stream of Memes, Eroding Trust in Democracy by Jesse Green

An unlikely dark comedy imagines the people pushing #PizzaGate, Donald Trump and who knows what next.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

'The Connector' Review: When Fake News Was All the Rage by Jesse Green

An Off Broadway musical about the sins of journalistic fabrication might benefit from more make-believe.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The Queer Kids Are All Right. And Now They're Making Me Better. by Jesse Green

How watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past " and still scarred by a less welcoming world.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Chita Rivera Found Her Emotional Voice for Shows Like 'West Side Story' by Jesse Green

Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

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