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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Orchestrated Into Obscurity: Quadrophenia Ballet Misses the Beat by Suzanna Bowling

Quadrophenia: A Rock Ballet, now making its New York debut at New York City Center (November 14–16), attempts to reimagine The Who’s seminal 1973 album as a dance production — but the …

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Little Bear Ridge Road Is a Bleak and Exhausting Journey Without a Payoff by Suzanna Bowling

Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, now playing at the Booth Theatre, drops us into the emotional wreckage of two deeply wounded people — and doesn’t offer much more than that. …

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: EJ Stapleton and The Calico Buffalo by Suzanna Bowling

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed from the Hotel Edison. This week on Live From the Hotel Edison, owner Suzanna Bowling is honored to welcome EJ Stapl…

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A Life in Lyrics: Linda Purl’s Elegant Turn at The Green Room 42 by Suzanna Bowling

At The Green Room 42, Linda Purl delivered more than just a cabaret act—she offered a warm, wise, and wistful masterclass in musical storytelling. Her new show, Tunes & Tales: Adventur…

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The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire: A Title That Promises Drama… and Delivers Disorientation by Suzanna Bowling

Anne Washburn’s The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre in a co-production with The Civilians, begins as a slow burn and ends in something closer to combust…

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Monday, November 10, 2025

The Queen of Versailles: Joe Allen’s Is About to Hang Another Poster by Suzanna Bowling

At the St. James Theatre, The Queen of Versailles opened as a star-studded, ambitious musical—with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Schwartz, book by Lindsey Ferrentino, and direc…

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Oh Happy Day! at The Public Theater — A Baptism Through Fire, Flood, and Song by Suzanna Bowling

“I RECOGNIZE THE STRUGGLE IN YOUTHE TIMES THAT YOU HATED BEING YOUIF YOU COULD SEE, WHAT I SEE IN YOUI SEE GOD IN YOU.” These are not just lyrics—they are the soul-spoken prayer of Oh …

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Kyoto: A Chilling Political Thriller That Hits Far Too Close to Home by Suzanna Bowling

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Kyoto is not just a play—it’s a warning. A political thriller that pulses with urgency, it confronts the roots of our climate crisis not in melting glaci…

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Friday, November 7, 2025

A Song of Riffs and Repetition: 44th The Musical Hits the Wrong Note by Suzanna Bowling

Chad Doreck as Joe Biden, T.J. Wilkins as Barack, Jenna Pastuszek as Hillary Clinton. Photos by Jenny Anderson 44th The Musical, directed by Eli Bauman—who also wrote the book, music, and …

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Vape! The Grease Parody — A Hilarious High-Nicotine Parody of Grease That Hits All the Right Notes by Suzanna Bowling

Grease may be the word, but Vape! The Grease Parody is the update we didn’t know we needed — a razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud parody that drags Rydell high kicking and singing into the 21st…

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Monday, November 3, 2025

Beau the Musical at St. Luke’s Theatre – A Nashville-Inspired, Heart-Filled Journey of Music and Identity by Suzanna Bowling

Beau the Musical, now playing at St. Luke’s Theatre on Restaurant Row through December 7, transforms the venue into a down-home Nashville honky-tonk, complete with $10 beers, $12 wines, an…

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Reunions at New York City Center – Two Tales, One Heart by Suzanna Bowling

Reunions, a chamber musical now playing at New York City Center through December 14, adapts two short plays from 1914 into a duet of charm, reflection, and emotional resonance. With book and…

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Sunday, November 2, 2025

When Legacy Becomes Art: Ken Fallin Supports the Stella Adler Studio through Iconic Illustration by Suzanna Bowling

In a city where theatre pulses through the veins of every borough, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting remains one of New York’s most beloved cultural institutions—more than a training gro…

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Romy & Michele the Musical: A High School Reunion Better Left Skipped by Suzanna Bowling

The beloved 1997 cult film Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion finally gets the musical treatment, but at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42—where hits go to die—it’s more curse than celeb…

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Bat Boy at City Center Flaps Its Wings — But Doesn’t Quite Soar by Suzanna Bowling

If you love your musicals campy, culty, and bleeding with satire, Bat Boy is your kind of monster. Returning to New York in a semi-staged revival at New York City Center, this off-Broadway d…

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Playing Shylock: A Solo Stage, A Loaded Legacy by Suzanna Bowling

At the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Saul Rubinek steps into the role he’s long dreamed of playing—Shylock, the complex and controversial Jewish moneylender of Shakespeare’s The Merchan…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Liberation: A Revolution Revisited, But Not Resolved by Suzanna Bowling

“You want a revolution, but you want it on your terms, and you don’t want to have to give anything up.” With that sharp line, Liberation, the riveting new play by Bess Wohl, pierces st…

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

T2C Talks With Keith Varney About His New Show Ten Times I Should Have Known I Was Autistic by Suzanna Bowling

Keith Varney stars and has created the new solo play Ten Times I Should Have Known I Was Autistic. Ten Times I Should Have Known I Was Autistic, will play Theatre Row – Theater 1 (410 W.…

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Sunday, October 26, 2025

The New York Pops: A Night of Musical Magic and Star Power at Carnegie Hall by Suzanna Bowling

Under the masterful baton of Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, The New York Pops opened their October concert at Carnegie Hall with a spirited and richly textured performance of B…

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Friday, October 24, 2025

Drama at the Disco Vol. 2: The Gala of the Season You Don’t Want to Miss by Suzanna Bowling

Monday, October 27, 2025 | The Edison Rooftop | 6 PM – Late The stars will align high above the city as The Drama League presents Drama at the Disco Vol. 2, a dazzling benefit gala set aga…

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Not Ready for Prime Time at MCC Fails to Capture the Magic or the Madness by Suzanna Bowling

In Not Ready for Prime Time, Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers attempt to dramatize the early days of Saturday Night Live, retracing the origin stories of its now-legendary original c…

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love! at Atlantic Theater Company – Love, Lust, and Lament with a Deadpan Wink by Suzanna Bowling

Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love! is less a play and more a wry shrug at romance—a collection of vignettes that explore the mechanics of love, sex, and emotional dysfunction with the clinical g…

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends at New York City Center — A Thrilling Fusion of Styles, Stars, and Soul by Suzanna Bowling

In a dazzling return to New York City Center, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends proves that the future of dance doesn’t just look bright—it blazes. Curated by the ever-electric T…

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Ragtime Returns to Stir the Soul and Challenge the Nation at Lincoln Center by Suzanna Bowling

Some musicals arrive when we need them most — not just as entertainment, but as echo and prophecy. Ragtime, with a book by Terrence McNally, a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, an…

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Resident Acting Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Misses the Magic at The Sheen Center by Suzanna Bowling

Shakespeare’s beloved A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a tale of mischief, romance, and magical transformation — a lush tapestry of interwoven narratives where mortals and fairies collide …

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Saving The Oceans With EM The Master by Suzanna Bowling

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed from the Hotel Edison. On this episode owner Suzanna Bowling talks with EM The Master. Known for her high-energy per…

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

T2C Talks With Austin Pendleton by Suzanna Bowling

Austin Pendleton is an actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. His six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22, What’s Up, Doc?, The Front Page, The Mupp…

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Remembering Diane Keaton: The Actress Who Redefined Being Herself by Suzanna Bowling

On October 11, 2025, the world lost a singular talent and icon: Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning actress, style pioneer, and theatrical soul. She passed away in California at the age of 79. I fir…

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Love, Loss, and Loud Lessons: Italian American Reconciliation at The Flea by Suzanna Bowling

John Patrick Shanley’s rarely revived Italian American Reconciliation returns to the stage under the direction of Austin Pendleton, and like much of Shanley’s work, it’s a volatile coc…

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History Revisited, But Not Rekindled: Crooked Cross at Mint Theater Company by Suzanna Bowling

The Mint Theater Company is known for unearthing forgotten gems, and their latest excavation is Crooked Cross, a 1935 play by Sally Carson based on her own 1934 novel of the same name. The n…

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Waiting for Godot: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter or How Bill & Ted Met Beckett by Suzanna Bowling

There is a certain buzz in the Hudson Theatre the moment Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter step onstage. The energy is kinetic, almost giddy—an audience reunion decades in the making for fans o…

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