Monday, December 4, 2023
★★★★☆ The travails of a born outsider, coping with inconceivable hardships in the South Africa of four decades ago, tragically resonates to this day.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PMThursday, November 16, 2023
★★★★☆ A crack cast reinvigorates Eric Idle’s irreverent slice of highly improbable history.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:55PMMonday, November 13, 2023
★★★★☆ A singing sextet in pre-WWII Berlin wows the cabaret crowd — but proves powerless against the Gestapo
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:15PMSunday, November 5, 2023
★★★★☆ Nathan Lane hosted an evanescent revival of his too rarely seen collaboration with Stephen Sondheim.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:59PMFriday, November 3, 2023
★★★☆☆ With additions from the Rodgers & Hart songbook, this updated interpretation is juicy if not entirely cohesive
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:05PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
★★★☆☆ Each recovery story is unique, but this one proves overly schematic.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:54PMMonday, September 18, 2023
★★★★☆ A clever script and a versatile cast transform a horror classic into pure fun and games
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:56PMThursday, September 14, 2023
★★★★☆ Bloom is back, spilling and spewing her neuroses and obsessions – wittily.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:57PMThursday, June 22, 2023
★★★☆☆ Sometimes a supposed tribute is an ill-camouflaged insult. Brittany Spears gets lionized in this femmage; Betty Friedan, not so much.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMSunday, June 18, 2023
★★★★☆ Family dynamics get a tragicomic treatment in this tale of three virtual orphans surviving precariously in contemporary London.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:31PMMonday, June 5, 2023
★★★★★ With surgical precision and abundant sympathy, Branden Jacob-Jenkins dissects the Class of 2002.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMThursday, May 4, 2023
★★★★☆ A cuddly Fagin? Raúl Esparza pulls off an improbable transmogrification in this Encores! staging
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:28PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
★★★★☆ Not every woman wants – or needs – a makeover, but plenty of women enjoy initiating them. Toxic or benevolent? You get to decide.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
★★★★☆ Fledgling playwright Julia Izumi works out Tolstoy's dictum about families unhappy and otherwise in this loopy portrait of three adult Asian adoptees.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMThursday, April 6, 2023
★★★★☆ Chaucer's outspoken, sex-positive "Wife of Bath," as updated by Zadie Smith, has some insights to share, along with a remedial agenda.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
★★★☆☆ Suzan-Lori Parks musicalizes the 1972 film with a skilled cast and crew but sugarcoats the original's gritty realism
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:57PMFriday, March 10, 2023
★★★★☆ A trio of differently abled performers embody Ryan J. Haddad’s rollicking collection of real-life tales.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:50AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
★★★★☆ With this, her first produced work, Nottage tossed out the rulebook for "well-made" plays and came up with a doozy.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PMMonday, March 6, 2023
★★☆☆☆ Anyone who attempts to tread in Wilde's footsteps had better be devilishly adroit – sadly not the case in this clumsy exercise.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:40PMThursday, March 2, 2023
★★★★★ Alexander Zeldin's “you-are-there” study of a London housing shelter delivers edge-of-the-seat impact
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:36PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
★★★☆☆ Hovering midway between parody and homage, this modernist rendering of a justifiable classic proves neither illuminating nor much fun.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:28PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
★★★★★ Finally, a kiddie show with an on-point message, snazzily presented.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:58PMMonday, February 6, 2023
★★★☆☆ Maybe take a step back if your babysitter offers to "co-parent"? A cautionary tale from the mommy-wars front.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:07PMSunday, December 18, 2022
Alt-darling Justin Vivian Bond celebrates the true spirit of the season.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:03PMThursday, December 15, 2022
★★★★★ With words and gestures alone, Eddie Izzard recreates Dickens' beloved bildungsroman.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
★★★★☆ What with all the treacle on offer this month, you may savor something a little more spicy.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMMonday, December 5, 2022
★★★★★ Traversing the entire Black experience in the U.S., “Mo’” is a bumpy ride – one you don’t want to miss.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:25PMSunday, November 27, 2022
★★★★☆ The inventive, nonexploitative circus flies high in this, its 45th embodiment.
The post Big Apple Circus: It’s Back and Buoyant, with a Message appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:50PMSunday, November 20, 2022
★★☆☆☆ The entire Judeo-Christian creation myth, wrapped in one woman's very trying week.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2022
★★★☆☆ A rare opportunity to hang out with London's witty literary crowd, circa 1770.
The post Boswell: History Comes to Life, Juicily, in This Clever Bio-Play appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMThursday, November 10, 2022
★★★★★ The last chapter in a young girl's abbreviated life proves heartwarmingly hilarious
The post Kimberly Akimbo: A Doomed Teen Valiantly Seizes the Day appeared first on New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM 
