Monday, March 18, 2024

Review: Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People,’ Starring Jeremy Strong by Jesse Green

The “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.

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On the Menu at Flamenco Fest, Tradition With a Side of Nuttiness by Brian Seibert

At City Center, performers like Olga Pericet and Manuel Liñán knew the rules they were bending.

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Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games by Just Lunning

Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake of the 1992 horror game Alone in the Dark.

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Friday, March 15, 2024

Climate Protesters Disrupt Broadway Play Starring Jeremy Strong by Michael Paulson

A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by protesters who shouted “no theater on a dead planet.”

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Irish Dance for All Levels, All Bodies, All Genders by Siobhan Burke and Yael Malka For The New York Times

Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

‘The Notebook’ Review: A Musical Tear-Jerker or Just All Wet? by Jesse Green

The 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.

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American Ballet Theater Names Dance Veteran as Executive Director by Javier C. Hernández

Barry Hughson, a leader at the National Ballet of Canada, will join the company as it tries to get beyond financial woes.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

‘The Effect’ Review: Dissecting the Science of Desire by Naveen Kumar

In Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s play, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell are a couple who fall in love during a pharmaceutical trial.

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Review: Rennie Harris Brings Chicago House to the Joyce Theater by Gia Kourlas

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents the first of two programs at the Joyce Theater, including a sparkling New York premiere by the hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris.

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‘Illinoise’: A Place of Overflowing Emotion, but Little Dance Spirit by Gia Kourlas

Justin Peck, who directs and choreographs a narrative dance musical to Sufjan Stevens’s concept album “Illinois,” resorts to his usual standby: community.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A Broadway-Bound ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Leads Olivier Award Nominations by Alex Marshall

The musical, starring Nicole Scherzinger, secured 11 nominations at Britain’s equivalent of the Tony Awards.

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Monday, March 11, 2024

‘Corruption’ Review: Onstage, a Scandal’s Human Drama Is Muffled by Laura Collins-Hughes

A new play by J.T. Rogers goes behind the scenes of the shady “news-gathering” that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire over a decade ago.

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: Not Much of a Bandit, but What a Corpse by Laura Collins-Hughes

The creators of “The Band’s Visit” return with this mischievous ghost story of a musical based on an odd slice of Old West history.

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Friday, March 8, 2024

How Ingrid Michaelson Made ‘The Notebook’ Into a Musical by Rob Tannenbaum

Family history is “wrapped up in these songs,” said the singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who is making the leap to Broadway with an adaptation of the popular romance novel.

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Dominique Blanc, at 67, Is in Her Prime by Laura Cappelle

After roles dried up, Dominique Blanc reclaimed her artistic agency by taking a one-woman play on the road. Now she’s making a rare appearance in Manhattan.

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At City Ballet, 2 Sparkling Premieres and Many Moments to Remember by Gia Kourlas

New works, by Alexei Ratmansky and Tiler Peck, and revivals brought solace and sadness, beauty and humor — and full-out, thrilling dancing this winter season.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Review: In ‘Doubt,’ What He Knows, She Knows, God Knows by Jesse Green

Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.

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Review: Welcome to ‘Illinoise,’ Land of Love, Grief and Zombies by Jesse Green

Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.

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Review: A Gentle Nightmare (Paging Dr. Freud) by Brian Seibert

Pontus Lidberg’s “On the Nature of Rabbits” at the Joyce Theater is a dance haunted by AIDS.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Review: Lucid Dreaming, Person to Person by Siobhan Burke

In Ursula Eagly’s “Dream Body Body Building” at the Chocolate Factory, the dancers seem to be transmitting a dream state to the audience.

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Paper Bag Players Celebrate 65 Years of Making Magic Out of the Ordinary by Laurel Graeber

The children’s theater company will bring its latest production, “It’s a Marvelous Paper Bag World!,” to stages in New York this spring.

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‘Bérénice’ Review: Crushed by Isabelle Huppert’s Star Power by Laura Cappelle

Romeo Castellucci’s production of the classic play by Jean Racine is all about the lead performer — and that’s it.

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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Lead Broadway ‘Othello’ by Michael Paulson

Kenny Leon will direct a starry revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the spring of 2025.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Review: For ‘Jack Tucker,’ Failure Is the Only Option by Jason Zinoman

Zach Zucker delivers a raucously funny portrait of a catastrophically dim stand-up comic at SoHo Playhouse.

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Edward Bond, Whose Brazen Work Freed British Drama From Royal Censors, Dies at 89 by Benedict Nightingale

His first play, “Saved,” though it drew outrage, led to the end of more than 200 years of state control over the theater.

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Hussein Smko’s Journey to the Joyce by Brian Schaefer

Hussein Smko’s encounter with an American soldier in Iraq led him to become a dancer. This week he performs in Pontus Lidberg’s work at the Joyce Theater.

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Monday, March 4, 2024

Bringing ‘Teeth,’ a Feminist Awakening With a Lethal Bite, to the Stage by Erik Piepenburg

Michael R. Jackson is helping adapt the darkly comic horror film into a musical. But can a show about a teenager with vagina dentata sing?

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Why Is There No Oscar for Best Choreography? by Margaret Fuhrer

Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Composer, Uninterrupted: Christian Wolff at 90 by Steve Smith

Wolff, the last representative of the New York School that included John Cage and Morton Feldman, will celebrate his birthday with a concert at Judson Memorial Church.

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Flamenco Festival, With Olga Pericet, Includes Paco de Lucía Tributes by Marina Harss

Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘The Other Side and ‘Show Way’ Go to BAM by Alexis Soloski

A dance performance of “The Other Side” and a musical adaptation of “Show Way” head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences.

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All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards