Thursday, November 6, 2025

Romy & Michele: The Musical — High Kicks, High Camp, and Some Feather-Light Fun by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Romy & Michele: The Musical By Ross “God, I wish I had your discipline,” she says, as the movie turned musical opens with a flash of colour, a flurry…

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

“Endgame” at Irish Arts Center: Druid’s Bleakly Beautiful Study in Survival and Stasis by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame By Ross He stands, staring, questioning the room and, in a way, his own existence. Each movement is deliberate, one halting step a…

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Bat Boy: The Musical at NYCC — A Sharp-Toothed, Sweet-Hearted Revival That Soars by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Bat Boy: The Musical By Ross The night was Halloween, and the theatre was primed for chaos. And as the storm rolled in across the stage at New York City Cent…

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Monday, November 3, 2025

“Kyoto” at Lincoln Center Theater: A Cautious, Calculated, and Cauterizing Study in Denial and Strategy by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Lincoln Center Theater’s Kyoto By Ross “The times you are living in are fucking awful.” The statement drops early and direct in Kyoto, echoing through …

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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Ragtime on Broadway: America Sings, Cries, and Soars Once More by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: Ragtime By Ross An upright piano still stands silently in a pool of light, waiting to unleash the epic heartbeat of Ragtime. A young boy approaches, tentative bu…

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

“Other” at Greenwich House Theatre: The Beautiful, Anxious Art of Self-Acceptance by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Other at Greenwich House Theater By Ross When Ari’el Stachel won his Tony Award for The Band’s Visit, a show that I loved with all my heart (including hi…

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Friday, October 31, 2025

“Gwyneth Goes Skiing” — A Slippery, Silly, and Slightly Overextended Good Time on the Off-Broadway Slopes by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Gwyneth Goes Skiing at the Soho Playhouse NYC By Ross “Prepare to be gooped,” we are told, wisely, as we slide onto the slick with absurdity slopes at th…

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

What Is a Broadway Theatre? by Diep Tran

It's a mix of location, union contracts, and seating capacity.

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“Let’s Love!” at ATC: A Clever Concept That Never Finds Its Purposeful Heart by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Atlantic Theater Company’s Let’s Love By Ross A bar with two seats and a piano sit on a bare stage, promising intimacy but lacking the warmth that one mi…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

18 Revivals That Returned to the Show’s 1st Broadway Theatre by Logan Culwell-Block

From Chess to Mamma Mia, here are revivals that returned to where they first premiered.

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“Not Ready for Prime Time” Misses Its Own Cue by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Grove House Productions‘ Not Ready for Prime Time By Ross At the Newman Mills Theater, a comedy legend is retold with little comic spark, and for a play ab…

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

“Liberation” Finds Expanded Power and Light on Broadway by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: Liberation on Broadway By Ross When I first experienced the glory of Bess Wohl’s extraordinary Liberation at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre earlier this yea…

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

what's happened to PREVIEWS?! | thoughts on the changing West End and Broadway theatre industry by MickeyJoTheatre

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/joinl • OHMYGOD HEY! With the stage adaptation of THE HUNGER GAMES having…

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Acton Says: Batter up – “The Pitch” at Actors Temple Theatre by Ross

The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Tom Alper’s The Pitch By Acton “What are we selling again?” asks Tom (Tom Alper) after a dizzying, disorienting orientation in the new workplace …

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Monday, October 13, 2025

Combative Conditional Love and the Courage to Confront: Inside MCC’s “Caroline” by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: MCC’s Caroline By Ross Suitcases, Tylenol, and pancakes in a corner booth of a diner outside of Cleveland — that’s how MCC’s Caroline begins. New clo…

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Wondrously “Waiting…“, Wanting, Watching: Beckett on Broadway and Beyond by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: Waiting for Godot by Ross I’ve seen the pictures. Of the curtain calls and the production stills. But nothing prepared me for the awesome spectacle of that mas…

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Jeremy Jordan Will Return to The Great Gatsby on Broadway by Ben Thomas

Jeremy Jordan is heading back to the Jazz Age. The Tony-nominated actor will return to the title role in The Great Gatsby on Broadway beginning November 10 at the Broadway Theatre. Jordan or…

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Works From Iraisa Ann Reilly, Kristen Adele Calhoun, More Revealed for Lucille Lortel Theatre's Fall Programming by Meg Masseron

The Off-Broadway theatre will stage a world premiere, a fourth round of commissions of new plays, and more.

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Jeremy Jordan Heads Back to the Party in The Great Gatsby on Broadway by Beth Stevens

It’s back to West Egg for Jeremy Jordan, who originated the role of Jay Gatsby in Broadway’s The Great Gatsby. The two-time Tony nominee will return to the musical at the Broadway Theatr…

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

MTC’s “Punch”: The Weight of One Powerful Blow by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: James Graham’s Punch By Ross “It’s a hot one today, boiling,” he states, wired and itching for drama, “and I’m not even high yet.” It’s a sharp, …

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

“Mexodus” Brilliantly Layers and Loops History with Liberation at Audible Theater by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Audible Theater’s Mexodus By Ross “Did you know about this shift?” That in 1848, to be precise, Blacks who were free in Mexico’s Texas suddenly found…

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Artistic Directors Should Create Space, Not Control It by American Theatre Editors

The leader of 59E59, an Off-Broadway theatre complex that programs more than 30 shows a year, offers a vision for the sustainability of the art form.

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NYTW Preaches A Glorious Gospel Gathering of Love and Defiance with “Saturday Church” by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: NYTW’s Saturday Church By Ross In one of its most radiant “preach to us” moments, Saturday Church rises up in a blast of light and love, urging us to f…

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

DOG DAY AFTERNOON Broadway Theatre and Dates Announced

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo have announced that Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, will begin perfo…

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“House of McQueen”: A Stylish but Neat Hemline Where a Raw Cut Was Desired by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: House of McQueen By Ross Searching and searching, online for a deadly idea. That’s what is projected with clarity across the back white wall as House of Mc…

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Public Theater’s “The Other Americans” Sharply Spins Family Ties and Cultural Tensions by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: The Other Americans By Ross There’s something ever so familiar to this Public Theater premiere of The Other Americans. But once the spin starts, the deterg…

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Monday, September 29, 2025

Punch ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter September 28, 2025: It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a Broadway theatre—or a theatre anywhere—and felt my eyes and nose swell with so much moisture I had…

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Acton Says: …And I Feel Fine: “The Cherry Orchard” at Rutgers Presbyterian Church by Ross

The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: The Cherry Orchard at Rutgers Presbyterian Church By Acton Time goes by so slowly for those who wait. Madonna’s time-bending 2005 hit Hung Up pul…

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Saturday, September 27, 2025

Acton Says: It’s in the Bag: Blood Orange at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre by Ross

The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Abigail Duclos’s Blood Orange by Acton The new horror play Blood Orange (writer Abigail Duclos, director Vernice Miller) rolls out like a sleepover…

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Friday, September 26, 2025

SEEN Lewisham Returns to Broadway Theatre, Catford This October by Staff Writer

The landmark arts and culture festival SEEN Lewisham returns to Broadway Theatre, Catford from 3–12 October 2025, celebrating cultural expression, community connection and artistic growth …

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Acton Says: Playing with fire: “Kinkakuji” at Japan Society by Ross

The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Kinkakuji at Japan Society By Acton That young man’s been watching us since we sat down, hidden in shadows at the back of the stage. And even once K…

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