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Friday, September 23, 2022

Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York? by Laura Collins-Hughes and Amir Hamja

The hottest celebrity in town right now is an enchanting 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee puppet. She’s drawing masses of admirers, but that’s not always a good thing.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

A Welcome Gust of Weird, and Adventures in Shadow Puppetry by Laura Collins-Hughes

“My Onliness” is voluptuous and frenetic, while “This and That” is a slip of a show. Both are pleasingly peculiar.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.

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Friday, September 16, 2022

In This Playwright’s Dystopia, Forgetting Is Forbidden by Laura Collins-Hughes

Steven Fechter’s “The Memory Exam” begins with a promising setup, our critic writes, while Grant MacDermott’s marriage story “Jasper” struggles for emotional resonance.

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Monday, September 12, 2022

Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust by Laura Collins-Hughes

In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.

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Friday, September 9, 2022

‘Burbank’ Review: When Disney’s Animators Went on Strike by Laura Collins-Hughes

Cameron Darwin Bossert’s smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

‘I’m Enough’: Gregg Mozgala on His Debut in ‘Cost of Living by Alexis Soloski, Elisabeth Vincentelli, Laura Collins-Hughes and Scott Heller

We spoke to three actors and a playwright — Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz — who are taking big shots this season.

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Review: In ‘On That Day in Amsterdam,’ a Traveler Becomes a Tourist by Laura Collins-Hughes

Two young men wander the city before they both must say farewell and return to very different lives.

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

‘Patience’ Review: At the Top of His Game, and Lonely by Laura Collins-Hughes

Johnny G. Lloyd’s new play about a solitaire champion examines talent, ambition and the rising stakes of success when you’re Black.

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Thursday, August 11, 2022

What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. by Laura Collins-Hughes

The experimental theater maker Aya Ogawa ponders her distant father as well as failure and forgiveness in “The Nosebleed” at Lincoln Center Theater.

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Thursday, July 28, 2022

‘Oresteia’ Review: A Mother’s Grief, Underestimated by Laura Collins-Hughes

Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory.

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Monday, July 25, 2022

‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers by Laura Collins-Hughes

With age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.

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Friday, July 22, 2022

‘Cannabis!’ Review: Preaching to the Partaking Choir by Laura Collins-Hughes

This vaudevillian show at La MaMa in Manhattan is like a party where weed is the guest of honor, thrown by ardent, uncritical hosts.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz by Laura Collins-Hughes

At the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish’s “Most Happy in Concert” confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench’s “Man of God” raises it own question.

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Monday, July 18, 2022

An ‘Impossible Dream’ Comes True, Again, for Marylouise Burke in ‘Epiphany’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The 81-year-old actress stars as an eccentric dinner party host. When she was a teenager, though, wanting to act was a secret she didn’t dare tell.

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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Review: In ‘Between the Lines,’ Romance Is Thwarted by Reality by Laura Collins-Hughes

A new Off Broadway musical, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is uneven but sweet, our critic writes.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

‘Twelfth Night’ Review: A Shot of Joy Under a Darkening Sky by Laura Collins-Hughes

At an uptown amphitheater, the Classical Theater of Harlem stages Shakespeare’s comedy with fizzy delight.

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Friday, July 8, 2022

‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook by Laura Collins-Hughes

Patrick Stewart, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau and Tim Robbins on being challenged and inspired by the legendary theater maker, who died last weekend.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry by Laura Collins-Hughes

She breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! “Into the Woods” revival is on Broadway.

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Monday, June 27, 2022

‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More by Laura Collins-Hughes

A young boarder’s plan to make a new life in Australia unsettles a staid British family in Elizabeth Baker’s 1909 play, revived by the Mint Theater Company.

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

‘Lessons in Survival: 1971’ Review: The Past Echoes in the Present by Laura Collins-Hughes

The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Review: In High-Tech ‘Orchard,’ It’s Hard to See the Forest for the Trees by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.

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Friday, June 10, 2022

‘Quince’ Review: A Mexican American Tale That Explains Too Much by Laura Collins-Hughes

The new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn’t clarify every cultural reference.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

In ‘Buggy Baby,’ Shadows Creep In by Laura Collins-Hughes

Josh Azouz’s vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.

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Thursday, June 2, 2022

Review: In ‘A Kid Like Rishi,’ Hazy Uncertainty Shrouds a Teen’s Killing by Laura Collins-Hughes

A cast of three recount the gripping drama of the death of a teenager by the Dutch police in 2012.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Review: In ‘Romeo & Bernadette,’ It’s Off to Brooklyn for This Tale of Joy by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this sweet, spoofy romp of a musical comedy, Romeo awakens from a 400-year slumber and follows a Juliet look-alike to Brooklyn.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Review: A Life Too Simplified by Laura Collins-Hughes

This New York City Children’s Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou’s celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain.

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Broadway Set Designers on Their Appealing Sets by Laura Collins-Hughes and Vincent Tullo

Live theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season’s plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble by Laura Collins-Hughes

Theater has always been a team sport. But this Covid-stalked Broadway season has made clear that a prize for the entire cast should be added.

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Broadway Guide: What to Know About Tickets, Shows and Covid Protocols by Laura Collins-Hughes

From new shows like “Macbeth” and “A Strange Loop” to long-running Tony Award winners, a rundown of everything you need to know.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Comic or Graphic, Shows About Abortion Surface a Stark Divide by Laura Collins-Hughes

Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby’s shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre