Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole **** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons May 28, 2025: Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole, the new jukebox musical by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, is very different from other shows in its genre. In the …

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Bus Stop ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg May 27, 2025: A playful revival of William Inge’s 1955 play, Bus Stop, at Classic Stage Company makes for a cheerful confection. Watching the classic film starring Maril…

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Monday, May 26, 2025

Goddess ***, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward May 26, 2025: There are several thrilling elements in Goddess, the new musical at the Public Theater, and in Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, the new play with music at th…

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ogresse –  Enthralling by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen May 25, 2025: Ogresse is a musical fable billed as “both a biomythography (weaving myth, history, and biography in epic narrative) and an homage to Erzulie”, the Haitian …

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GODDESS***1/2 by Patrick Christiano

By Samuel L. Leiter May 23, 2025: The Public Theater’s latest musical, Goddess, on the same stage that introduced A Chorus Line and Hamilton,bursts onto the stage with an electrifying ener…

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Sunday, May 18, 2025

BOWL EP** by Patrick Christiano

By David Sheward May 18, 2025: When you walk into the Vineyard Theater for Nazareth Hassan’s Bowl EP, a co-production between Vineyard and the National Black Theatre in association with Th…

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Fat Cat Killers ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons May 14, 2025. There’s something deliciously anarchistic about Fat Cat Killers, Adam Szymkowicz’s new play now at the Gene Frankel Theatre, under the direction of And…

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The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse ****, All-Nighter **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward May 14, 2025. The impact of our celebrity-obsessed digital culture is explored in the intimate and funny new musical The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse from The New Group at …

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WHITE ROOM GALLERY by Patrick Christiano

LA FEMME at The White Room Gallery featuring the works of Terry O’Neill, Elise Remender, Sabrina Cabada, Rob Brinson and more on view at The White Room Gallery on view through June 16, 202…

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

THE LAST BIMBO OF THE APOCOLAPSE **1/2 by Patrick Christiano

By Samuel L. Leiter May 13, 2025: In an era where, as they say, nostalgia is currency and irony king, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse arrives at the Pershing Square Signature Center with as…

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Monday, May 12, 2025

Basil Twist and ‘Puppetopia’ by Patrick Christiano

By Alix Cohen May 12, 2025. “Anything inanimate that you animate is a puppet.” Basil Twist How does a program like HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry (producer of Puppetopia) get started in …

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OCC AWARD WINNERS by Patrick Christiano

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING wins 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best New Broadway Musical and JOHN PPROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN won Best new Broadway Play May 12, 2025: The Outer Critics Circle…

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Irishtown **** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons May 6, 2025. If you thought all Irish plays are dark and depressing, think again. Irishtown, by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth may be one of the funniest plays of the season. It�…

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Monday, May 5, 2025

JUST IN TIME****, FLOYD COLLINS**1/2, ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE **** by Patrick Christiano

By David Sheward May 5, 2025: The 2024-25 Broadway season closes out with a pair of wildly divergent musicals featuring stunning star turns by two of the musical theater’s brightest stars.…

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JUST IN TIME***** by Patrick Christiano

By Paulanne Simmons The main artifice of Justin in Time, the new jukebox musical about Bobby Darin, is that it’s all artifice. The first thing Jonathon Groff says as he strides onto Der…

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Saturday, May 3, 2025

JUST IN TIME ****1/2 by Patrick Christiano

By Samuel L. Leiter May 3, 2025: In recent seasons, Jonathan Groff, now 40 but still boyishly handsome, has become Broadway’s definition of a modern musical matinee idol, masculine yet…

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Friday, May 2, 2025

REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES: THE MUSICAL **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter May 2, 2025. In a season low on original musicals that spotlight underrepresented voices (The Buena Vista Social Club excepted), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical arri…

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Becoming Eve**** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons May 2, 2025. Abby Stein was born Srully Abraham Stein to a Hassidic family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She grew up speaking Yiddish and Hebrew. She attended an all…

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

​PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter May 1, 2025. As its new title suggests, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s sparkling, New Orleans jazz-inspired revival of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera, The…

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Stranger Things: The First Shadow *****, Real Women Have Curves ****, Becoming Eve **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 28, 2025. If you’ve been waiting for the must-see production of the Broadway season to justify plunking down your hard-earned bucks, wait no more. Stranger Things: …

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

WHITE ROOM GALLERY by Patrick Christiano

STRIPPED – MUSIC THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD/ The Work of Steve Joester at The Whie Room Gallery, also featuring Brad Beyer, on view through May 11, 2025. April 27, 2025: The White Room Galler…

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STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London’s West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thoug…

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Friday, April 25, 2025

Pirates! The Penzance Musical ***** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Pirates! The Penzance Musical **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

White Room Gallery by Barry Gordin

The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025. April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

John Proctor Is the Villain ****, Grief Camp *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…

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GRIEF CAMP **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…

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Jason’s Lyric Live! and Victoria Rowell’s book “The Women Who Raised Me.” by Barry Gordin

Veteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason’s Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn’s Historic Kings Theatre By Elis Nassour April 2…

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Sunday, April 20, 2025

SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim’s Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh’s revue of around 40 songs by Ste…

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Five Reasons Why Operation Mincemeat Epitomizes Historical Humor by Barry Gordin

By Iris Wiener April 19, 2025. There’s nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat’s originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevan…

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Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. ****, Wine in the Wilderness **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 19, 2025. You never know what you’re going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it’s sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. A…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes 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