307 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★★★★ For her farewell as Encores! artistic director, future Lincoln Center AD Lear deBessonet goes out on a high note
The post Ragtime: Simple and Somehow Subl…
★★★★☆ The playwright returns to her roots and honors her family in a dynamic new work
The post Bad Kreyòl: Haitian American Dominique Morisseau's Very Person…
★★★☆☆ Sam Gold gives the tragedy a Gen Z makeover, complete with a pop music, plushies, and two popular young stars
The post Romeo + Juliet: Shakespeare for the…
★★★☆☆ Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher headline this true story of second chances
The post Left On Tenth: Delia Ephron's Memoir Gets Lost in Translation a…
★★★★☆ Playwright David Henry Hwang gives main-character energy in a self-deprecating stage mockumentary
The post Yellow Face: Laugh, Reflect, Repeat appeared fi…
★★★★☆ Saheem Ali directs a one-acter that only scratches the surface of the gentrification debate
The post Good Bones: James Ijames' Urban Renewal Project appea…
★★★★★ Laura Donnelly stars in a time-hopping play about a musical family that hits all the right notes
The post The Hills of California: Le Jez Hot! appeared fi…
★★★☆☆ Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow play roommates"turned-unlikely friends in the Jack O'Brien"directed two-hander
The post The Roommate: Bronx Bad Girl, Meet Mid…
★★★☆☆ An unintentional viral video star confronts a work-ordered therapist in this 80-minute two-hander Â
The post Job: An Unfiltered Drama for the Social Me…
★★☆☆☆ NYC's art deco architectural masterpiece inspires an uninspired musical
The post Empire: A Tired 'Newsies Meets New York, New York' Mashup appeared first …
★★★☆☆ An Orlando-born musical aims to capture the city's resilience after the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting
The post From Here: Florida Strong, Displayed in Son…
★★★☆☆ Marc Bruni directs a sonically lush but somewhat disappointing concert version of Sondheim and Wheeler's 19th century-set romantic romp
The post A Little …
★★★★☆ The category is…reinvention. The 1982 Andrew Lloyd Webber"T.S. Eliot musical is moving to a fresh new beat.
The post Cats"The Jellicle Ball: ALW in the …
★★★★☆ Actor-turned-playwright Marin Ireland, director Maria Dizzia, and creative consultant Anne Kauffman team up for a confessional drama
The post Pre-Existing…
★★★☆☆ Directed by Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott, the show puts two female singers, and their love story, in the spotlight
The post The Lonely Few: A Promising…
★★★★☆ Disabled actors Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez make beautiful music in Laura Winters' delightful play
The post All of Me: A Rom-Com Powered by Text-to-…
★★☆☆☆ Chekhov's oft-produced tragicomedy gets a misfire of a revival at Lincoln Center
The post Uncle Vanya: Disoriented Scenes From a Country Life appeared fir…
★★★★☆ The August Wilson Theatre has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club. Would you like to buy a girl a drink?
The post Cabaret: Immersive, Ambitious, All To…
★★★☆☆ The 16-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter brings her music and her vision to Broadway
The post Hell's Kitchen: Welcome to Alicia Keys' New York appeare…
★★★★★ David Adjmi and Will Butler's studio-set play moves to Broadway with a cast in perfect harmony and every note intact
The post Stereophonic: We're With the…
★★★★☆ Liza Birkenmeier's Obie Award"winning play paints a gorgeously impressionistic picture of a group of acquaintances in loneliness, contemplation, and despa…
★★★★☆ Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli square off in a battle of right vs. wrong, science vs. politics, and brother vs. brother
The post An Enemy of the Peop…
★★★★☆ Two decades later, John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize"winning play inspires as much conversation as ever
The post Doubt: The Debate Rages On appeared f…
★★★☆☆ The TV star and theater veteran shines as an enigmatic artist in a time-bending two-hander
The post The Seven Year Disappear: A Tour-de-Force for Cynthia …
★★★★☆ Lila Neugebauer directs an epic, emotionally draining Broadway debut drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
The post Appropriate: Southern Discomfort and Sibling…
