Saturday, March 29, 2025

Last Tango in the Guggenheim by Annie Aguiar and Vidhya Nagarajan

Members of the dance company Ballet Hispánico weren’t the only ones who swirled amid the art in the museum’s rotunda during a recent presentation and tango class.

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Friday, March 28, 2025

Scott Rudin, Producer Exiled for Bad Behavior, Plans Return to Broadway by Michael Paulson

Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.

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12 Plays and Musicals to Brighten the Spring by Laura Collins-Hughes

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Starring Sarah Snook and 3 Million Pixels by Jesse Green

The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.

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Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.

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PS21, a Hub for Forward-Looking Art Upstate, Names a New Director by Brian Seibert

Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.

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How ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings a Beloved Song to Life on Broadway by Alan Light

Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.

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At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself by Ben Brantley

Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Review: Can Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Find a New Voice? by Brian Seibert

On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.

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In ‘Streetcar,’ Patsy Ferran Gives Blanche a Nervy New Read by Alexis Soloski

The London-based actress has been heralded as one of the most talented of her generation. Still, she worried audiences would balk at her “very unconventional Blanche.”

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How ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Revealed a Family’s World War II Secrets by Alex Marshall

Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Sets Broadway Box Office Record by Michael Paulson

“Good Night, and Good Luck” grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.”

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‘Wine in the Wilderness’ Review: Beauty in Blackness by Maya Phillips

Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

Lionizing Mark Twain, Conan O’Brien Subtly Skewers Trump by Jason Zinoman

In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.

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The Price of a Show by Michael Paulson

Tickets for the hottest Broadway plays are now out of reach for many.

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There’s Always Room in the Clown Car by Michael Snyder

For centuries, clowns have mostly been men. A new group of talent is changing that.

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Phylicia Rashad Knows Her Purpose by Reggie Ugwu

Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”

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Jenifer Ringer Is Back at the School of American Ballet in a New Role by Gia Kourlas and Amir Hamja

Jenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.

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In ‘Othello,’ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator by Jesse Green

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Inside the Controversy Surrounding Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Remake by Brooks Barnes

The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music Is Fighting to Regain its Mojo by Robin Pogrebin

America’s oldest performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural instit…

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

‘Love Life,’ the Lost Great American Musical, Returns Over 75 Years Later by Joshua Barone

Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.

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Friday, March 21, 2025

8 New Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About by Rachel Sherman

A British satirical comedy, a Tennessee Williams classic, a soundscape of Havana: These are productions worth knowing about.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe by Jesse Green

A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.

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‘Snow White’ Review: A Princess’s Progress by Manohla Dargis

The new live-action version of Disney’s 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings the Thrill of Music Making to Broadway by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.

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“We Had a World” Review: A Poignant New Play From Joshua Harmon by Maya Phillips

Joshua Harmon’s new play features uniformly standout performances and tells a poignant story of family dynamics.

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She May Be the Most Powerful Producer Working in Theater by Michael Paulson

Sonia Friedman has “created her own theater studio system,” balancing big properties like “Harry Potter” and “Stranger Things” with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

‘Amerikin’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Undoing: DNA by Laura Collins-Hughes

The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.

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Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’ by Jesse Green

Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.

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Why Black Satire Is the Art Form for Our Absurd Age by Adam Bradley

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities.

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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