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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Tituss Burgess in ‘Oh, Mary!’ Is Cole Escola’s Dream Come True by Joshua Barone

As Burgess prepares to step in to the hit Broadway comedy, he thinks he should have “spent more time at the gym.”

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Monday, March 17, 2025

‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite by Jesse Green

A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

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In ‘Weather Girl,’ Climate Change Sets Off a Meltdown by Houman Barekat

A new one-woman show from the producer of “Baby Reindeer” and “Fleabag” is an irreverent allegory about wildfires and global warming.

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Boy Blue Brings British Hip-Hop to Lincoln Center by Brian Seibert

Boy Blue brings its new show, dense with dance and rootsy British hip-hop, to Lincoln Center.

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Saturday, March 15, 2025

With $921 Seats, Denzel Washington’s ‘Othello’ Breaks a Box Office Record by Michael Paulson

Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

At NYLA, ‘Terrestrial: The Sprout’ Proposes Drab Future Rituals by Brian Seibert

In “Terrestrial: The Sprout,” at New York Live Arts, three directors present a show about epic memory and indescribable feelings.

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Theater to Stream Now: ‘Beckett Briefs’ and One of Gavin Creel’s Last Shows by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in “Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.”

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‘Song of the North’ Uses Puppets to Help a Persian Epic Spring to Life by Jennifer Schuessler and Gavin Doran

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Anne Kaufman Schneider, 99, Ardent Keeper of Her Father’s Plays, Dies by Barry Singer

She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.

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A Twyla Tharp Master Class on Themes, Variations and Allusions by Brian Seibert

A program celebrating Twyla Tharp’s 60th year making dances features the masterwork “Diabelli” and the fresh new “Slacktide,” set to Philip Glass.

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5 Years After Covid Closed the Theaters, Audiences Are Returning by The New York Times

Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.

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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Is Haunted by Brando and Ghosts of Actors Past by Ben Brantley

With a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’ by Jesse Green

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

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In ‘The Great Privation,’ Fending Off the Body Snatchers by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.

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Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life by Roslyn Sulcas

In “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works, bearing witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the realities of apartheid South Africa.

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The Transformer: Twyla Tharp Dives Into the Future by Gia Kourlas

Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary as a dance maker with a program pairing the monumental “Diabelli” (1998) and the new “Slacktide.”

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Those Sounds (Brrr-ah Bah Bah-BAH) You Hear? Choreographers at Work. by Margaret Fuhrer

In dance, a wordless art, an improvised language of rhythmic noises helps communicate the shape and feel of movement.

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A Critic Whose Beat Is, on Occasion, a Laughing Matter by Sarah Bahr

Jason Zinoman started writing about comedy for The New York Times in 2011, when the world of stand-up and improv looked a little different.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone by Jesse Green

Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.

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Striking Stage Crews Reach Agreement With Atlantic Theater by Michael Paulson

The deal will be scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters, which the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has been working to unionize.

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‘All Nighter’ Review: No Sleep but Plenty of Gripes by Maya Phillips

A new play about a group of college students putting in one last study session evokes recent stories about young women, but without the well-rounded characters.

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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