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Thursday, October 16, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream by Laura Collins-Hughes

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.

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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark by Laura Collins-Hughes

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Jen Tullock Multitasks in ‘Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The “Severance” actor portrays all the roles in a play she wrote with Frank Winters, inspired by her evangelical upbringing.

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Friday, October 10, 2025

‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ Review: Stephen Rea’s Duet With His Younger Self by Laura Collins-Hughes

Samuel Beckett’s 55-minute contemplation of mortality comes to NYU Skirball in a neat and handsome staging by Vicky Featherstone.

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

How a Chaotic ‘Network’-Style Outburst Plays Out in ‘Weather Girl’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this dark comedy about climate change, a meteorologist meant to maintain a “happy voice” can no longer reassure viewers that it’s going to be all right.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

17 Off Broadway Shows to Enliven Your October by Laura Collins-Hughes

André De Shields does Molière, Romy and Michele take the stage and Bat Boy makes his return just in time for Halloween.

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

‘The Honey Trap’ Is a Thriller That Keeps Audiences Rapt Until the End by Laura Collins-Hughes

For a British soldier, a fatal night out breeds a hunger for revenge in Leo McGann’s suspenseful play at Irish Repertory Theater.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

‘Caroline’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz as a Mother Starting Over by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in a closely observed new drama by Preston Max Allen about addiction, class and the safety of a transgender 9-year-old.

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Broadway by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jamie Lloyd’s pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the “Bill & Ted” stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett’s clowns.

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Friday, September 26, 2025

In ‘Punch’ on Broadway, Trying to Summon Empathy for the Unforgivable by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Broadway play “Punch” retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

‘Galas’ Review: A Vocally Gifted Paper Doll by Laura Collins-Hughes

Charles Ludlam’s camp tribute to Maria Callas, featuring the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, is glamorous to a fault at Little Island.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Keanu Reeves in ‘Waiting for Godot’ and More Broadway Shows to See This Fall by Laura Collins-Hughes

Season highlights this fall include Michelle Williams in a Eugene O’Neill drama, a new Kristin Chenoweth musical and a revival of “Ragtime.”

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42 Plays and Musicals to See Across the U.S. This Fall by Laura Collins-Hughes

Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, “Working Girl” in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and “Paranormal Activity” in Illinois.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to ‘The Lion King’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway. by Laura Collins-Hughes

Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

‘Twelfth Night’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o in Illyria by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress is luminous, alongside her look-alike brother Junior Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, in Shakespeare’s comedy at the newly revived Delacorte Theater.

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Review: Jeff Ross’s ‘Take a Banana for the Ride’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

With mortality on his mind, the insult comic comes to Broadway in a gentle, tough-guy solo show.

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Friday, August 8, 2025

‘Well, I’ll Let You Go’ Review: A Fog of Grief by Laura Collins-Hughes

Bubba Weiler’s quietly absorbing new play, directed by Jack Serio, is a showcase for a blue-chip cast that includes Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus.

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Monday, August 4, 2025

A Dozen Off Broadway Shows to Energize Your August by Laura Collins-Hughes

Elizabeth McGovern channels Ava Gardner, a starry “Twelfth Night” reopens the Delacorte and Luke Newton of “Bridgerton” plays Alexander McQueen.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

‘Ta-Da!’ Review: Josh Sharp Tries a Thing by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sam Pinkleton directs the comedian’s well-camouflaged coming-out story.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

‘The Gospel at Colonus’ Review: Singing Hallelujah on the Hudson by Laura Collins-Hughes

In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

‘Memnon’ Review: To Fight or Not to Fight? by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Will Power’s play for the Classical Theater of Harlem, Eric Berryman stars as an Ethiopian king drawn into the Trojan War.

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Friday, June 27, 2025

Diana Oh, Passionate Voice for Queer Liberation in Theater, Dies at 38 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Review: When the President Made a Deal by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival on a high.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

‘Fight Back’ Recreates an Act Up Meeting From 1989 by Laura Collins-Hughes

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Dorian Gray,’ ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and More by Laura Collins-Hughes

Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

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Friday, June 6, 2025

13 Off Broadway Shows to See in June by Laura Collins-Hughes

Reed Birney and Lisa Emery in a two-hander, Taylor Mac in a Molière riff and Jay Ellis in a romantic drama — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025

‘Eurydice’ Review: Maya Hawke in the Underworld by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of this classic myth, with a focus on a daughter’s reunion with her beloved father after death.

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Across the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.

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Friday, May 23, 2025

‘O.K.!’ Review: When the Abortion Clinic Cancels by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Christin Eve Cato’s new backstage dramedy, an actress’s plan to terminate a pregnancy collides with the rollback of reproductive rights.

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