306 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★★★ Versatile playwright-performer Heather Raffo continues to explore her Middle Eastern heritage with a Christmas-set family drama
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★★ To quote Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning screenplay, this Network messes with the primal forces of nature
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★★★ In their first-ever shared New York stage appearance, the dynamic real-life siblings star as brother and sister in Theresa Rebeck's family drama
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★★★★ David Rossmer and Steve Rosen's musical is as sweet as a bag of half-price Kit Kats
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★★★ Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale star in this all-too-timely drama from lawyer/playwright Christopher Demos-Brown
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★★★★ Though it be but little, it is fierce. The Mobile Unit's made-to-travel Midsummer doesn't skimp on the laughs or the fairy dust.
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★★ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu's disconnected drama
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★★★★ The inimitable Elaine May makes her long-awaited Broadway return in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's wonderfully unsentimental memory play
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★★★★★ Jez Butterworth's London smash arrives in New York with a massive cast, enormous buzz, a goose, and a rabbit
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★★★ Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, and Daniel Radcliffe star in a surprisingly compelling drama about"wait for it"magazine fact-checking
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★★★ Playwright Emily Mann, director Diane Paulus, and an all-female creative and production team join forces with journalist, author, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem
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★★ A birthday dinner takes a dark turn in Alexi Kaye Campbell's English countryside"set drama
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★★★ Aasif Mandvi plays six characters in this 20th-anniversary revival of his Obie-winning one-man show
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★★★ Primary Stages' triptych of Gurney shorts"which includes the late playwright's newest, "Final Follies""comes up a bit short
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★★★★ Janet McTeer is divine in Theresa Rebeck's metatheatrical ode to Sarah Bernhardt and Shakespeare's melancholy Dane
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★★★ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O'Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
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★★★ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White's 1977-set political play
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★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway's current Carole King in the long-running biomusical
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★★★★ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov's tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
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★★★ Jen Silverman's characters are smart, sharp-tongued, and far from stereotypical. Try to keep up.
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★★★★ Another World War I"era novel from 'War Horse' author Michael Morpurgo gets the theatrical treatment
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★★ The Mint Theater digs up Lillian Hellman's long-forgotten, failed 1936 drama
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★★★★ The National Asian American Theatre Company condenses Shakespeare's three Henry VI plays into a two-part, five-and-a-half-hour experience
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★★ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical
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★★★★ Mad about the Go-Go's? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.
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