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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Dana H.: Deirdre O’Connell Triumphs in a Survivor Story by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Lucas Hnath’s 75-minute docudrama uses his mother’s experience—and her voice—to tell her terrifying story The post Dana H.: Deirdre O’Connell Triumphs in a Survivor…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Letters of Suresh: An Ode to an All-But-Forgotten Art Form by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Rajiv Joseph’s new play explores the confessional power of the pen and paper The post Letters of Suresh: An Ode to an All-But-Forgotten Art Form appeared first on New York …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM
Monday, October 11, 2021

Is This A Room: Reality Winner Speaks Her Truth by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ The FBI interrogation of an unlikely whistleblower yields a powerful docudrama The post Is This A Room: Reality Winner Speaks Her Truth appeared first on New York Stage Revie…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PM
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Six: Long Live the Queens by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Henry VIII’s wives get the royal treatment in this 80-minute musical celebration of girl power The post Six: Long Live the Queens appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM
Monday, September 27, 2021

A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet: Looking for “One Hit Song” by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Bryonha Marie Parham shines as a pop star searching for a comeback in this showbiz-centered musical The post A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet: Looking for “One Hit Song…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PM
Monday, August 9, 2021

Merry Wives: A Giddy Modern-Day Take on a Lesser Shakespeare by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh’s smart Harlem-set spin on Shakespeare is the joyous kick we all need right now The post Merry Wives: A Giddy Modern-Day Take on a Lesser Shakespeare appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Seven Deadly Sins: There’s No Harm In Watching by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ That former den of iniquity, the Meatpacking District, plays host to a sin-inspired evening The post Seven Deadly Sins: There’s No Harm In Watching appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:21PM
Friday, April 16, 2021

SOCIAL!: It’s Time to Dance by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Is it theater? Is it disco? Either way, it’s a safety-conscious, socially distant 55-minute experience.   The post SOCIAL!: It’s Time to Dance appeared first on New York…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PM
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Perfect August in December by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Wilson’s Chicago-set 1920s play gets a magnificent, melodic Netflix transfer The post Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Perfect August in December appeared first on New York St…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58AM
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

The Prom: The Big-Hearted Broadway Musical Gets a Lavish, Loving Film by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★✩ As the song says: “Go big or you’ve blown it!” Director Ryan Murphy takes the lyric to heart in this sparkle-, shimmer-, and sequin-heavy adaptation. The post The Prom:…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:01PM
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy Sells It With a Smile and a Shoeshine by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Don’t miss this chance to see a revelatory revival of Arthur Miller’s iconic American tragedy The post Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy Sells It With a Smile and a Shoe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:02PM
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Coastal Elites: Paul Rudnick Rages Against the Right-Wing Machine by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson star in a motley collection of made-for-liberal monologues The post Coastal Elites: Paul Rudnick Rages Against the Right-Wing Machine appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AM
Friday, July 3, 2020

Hamilton: $7 Gets You Front-Row Access to $10 Founding Father by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ The smash-hit Broadway musical and pop-culture phenomenon gets a wide release The post Hamilton: $7 Gets You Front-Row Access to $10 Founding Father appeared first on New Yor…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:26PM
Monday, April 27, 2020

Intermission Talk: Sondheim’s Starry Online 90th Birthday Concert by Melissa Rose Bernardo

After a few technical difficulties, ‘Take Me to the World’ was the Sondheim celebration that theater-starved Broadway babies were waiting for The post Intermission Talk: Sondheim’s Sta…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:27PM
Monday, March 9, 2020

Unknown Soldier: Unraveling a Century-Spanning Family Drama by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ A new musical by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman gets a handsome production at Playwrights Horizons The post Unknown Soldier: Unraveling a Century-Spanning Fam…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PM
Sunday, March 1, 2020

The Hot Wing King: Katori Hall Serves Up Love and Laughs by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The author of ‘Hurt Village’ and ‘The Mountaintop’ spreads her wings with a serious relationship- and family-focused drama The post The Hot Wing King: Katori Hall Serves…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face The post We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Monday, February 24, 2020

Cambodian Rock Band: Discovering Melody and Meaning in Tragedy by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Lauren Yee’s play finally gets its New York premiere and a rockin’ production at the Signature Theatre The post Cambodian Rock Band: Discovering Melody and Meaning in Traged…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Mack & Mabel: This One’s for Jerry by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Brushed off and spiffed up, the cult favorite 1974 musical finally gets the Encores! treatment The post Mack & Mabel: This One’s for Jerry appeared first on New York Stage…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:20PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020

The Sabbath Girl: A Cute but Clichéd Cross-Cultural Rom-Com by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City The post The Sabbath Girl: A Cute but Clichéd Cross-Cultural Rom-Co…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Monday, February 10, 2020

Hamlet: The Star’s the Thing by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Oscar nominee Ruth Negga makes a stellar New York stage debut in a somewhat tedious staging of Shakespeare’s soliloquy-heavy tragedy The post Hamlet: The Star’s the Thing appea…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PM
Friday, January 31, 2020

Next to Normal: It’s Gonna Be Good by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Director Michael Greif brings the musical to D.C. for a brief but intensely emotional run starring Rachel Bay Jones The post Next to Normal: It’s Gonna Be Good appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:24PM
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren’t Alright by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children The post Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren’t Alright appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PM
Monday, January 20, 2020

Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a Twist by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon The post Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:32PM
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond The post My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM
Monday, December 16, 2019

Sing Street: We’re With the Band by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley The post Sing Street: We’re With the Band appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza The post Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes app…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019

One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama The post One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead appeared first on New York Stage Re…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:44PM
Friday, December 6, 2019

Anything Can Happen in the Theater: Yeston Time by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Gerard Alessandrini’s valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities The post Anything Can Happen in the Theater: Yeston Tim…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:01PM
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Jagged Little Pill arrives on Broadway as a musical with angst to spare: Review by Melissa Rose Bernardo

“Ooh, this could get messy,” sings the ensemble of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill at the top of Act 2. It’s actually a bit from “Hands Clean” — not a song from the eponymous 199…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:30PM
Monday, November 25, 2019

A Bright Room Called Day: The Fascist and the Furious by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ The post A Bright Room Called Day: The Fascist and the Furious appeared …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PM

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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
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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