312 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★★ 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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★★★ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
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★★★★★ Tracy Letts returns to the Midwest with a subdued but stunning play about someone "unexceptional"
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★★★★ The late Michael Friedman receives a fitting tribute at Encores! Off-Center with The Civilians' melancholy Gone Missing.
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★★★ Melissa Errico and Stephen Bogardus star in Irish Rep's stripped-down, chamber-style revival of the 1960s musical.
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★★★ Jason Robert Brown fans rejoice! The Tony-winning composer's first work is getting the Encores! treatment.
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★★★★ Oscar and Tony nominee Carey Mulligan captivates in a gritty one-woman drama from Matilda scribe Dennis Kelly.
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★★ Did you hear the one about the baby who looked like Gerry Adams? Cyprus Avenue is a black comedy in search of a weighty punch line. Â
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★★★★ Antoinette Nwandu's modern-day mash-up of Godot and Exodus pulls no punches when it comes to police violence.
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★★★★ Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll wrestle with the green-eyed monster in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello.
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★★★ Attention must be paid to Eve Ensler's newest works, but your patience will be tested during this dissonant trio of shorts
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★★★★ Dominique Morisseau wraps up her Detroit trilogy with a jazzy ode to the city's once-thriving entertainment district
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★★★★ Lesley Manville's performance in Eugene O'Neill's wrenching family drama will leave you on a morphine-like high
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★★ A four-character, all-female musical at the York Theatre is an Unexpected disappointment
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★★★ Alan Ayckbourn's 81st is short on substance and long on style, but nevertheless a treat for his fans
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★★★★ The Public Theater's Mobile Unit strips down the band-of-brothers play to a slick 105 minutes
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★★★★★ In his last dance with the Bard, Antony Sher tackles (and conquers) the mad king with the Royal Shakespeare Company
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★★★ Sharon Washington pens and performs her New York City fairy tale of "The Little Girl Who Lived in a Library."
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★★★ Film stars Michael Cera and Chris Evans face off in the character-heavy, plot-light play.
★★★★ Arin Arbus and Theatre for a New Audience embrace Shakespeare's bear of a play
