312 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★★★☆ Thornton Wilder's epic receives a suitably over-the-top production at Lincoln Center Theater
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★★★★☆ A new staging of the dark comedy from a playwright once dubbed theater's Quentin Tarantino goes for laughs over gore Â
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★★☆☆☆ Tracy Letts' new play is part satire, part black comedy, and all head-scratcher
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★★★★★ The Jamie Lloyd Company reinvents Rostand's nosey Frenchman for the 21st century
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★★★☆☆ Debra Messing ages 90 years"playing a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother"in a 90-minute play
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★★★★☆ Playwright Lloyd Suh draws on real-life 19th-century events with 21st-century ramifications in this Ma-Yi Theater, Barrington Stage, and Public Theater pr…
★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris explores the aftermath of war and the shades of grief in a shattering new play
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★★★★✩ John Douglas Thompson brings a steadfast gaze and spine of steel to the much-maligned Shylock
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★★★✩✩ A two-man metamusical about the space race pays tribute to the power of the dog
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★★★★☆ A Great Recession"era Detroit-set play puts its stamp on Broadway
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★★★★☆ Cecily Strong headlines Jane Wagner's multicharacter meditation on humanity, interconnectedness, soup, and art
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★★★★★ Marianne Elliott directs a modern-day, gender-swapped version of the Sondheim-Furth show starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone
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★★★☆☆ The OG Carrie Bradshaw dishes on her life, career, and the real Mr. Big
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★★★★☆ The fast-paced, intermission-free new play from Lynn Nottage fires off one-liners in a Midwest sandwich shop
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★★★★☆ The journalist, comedian, and serial comma supporter seeks validation in an autobiographical one-woman show
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★★★★☆ The 1983 musical gets a 2021 makeover courtesy of Out of the Box Theatrics
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★★★☆☆ John Doyle's revival of the Sondheim-Weidman musical is well performed but brutally heavy-handed
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★★★☆☆ The musical version of Tom McCarthy's 2007 film expands its view but loses its heart
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★★★★☆ Blair Brown, Edie Falco, and Marin Ireland play mother, daughter, granddaughter, and many more in an affecting new drama
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★★☆☆☆ The new play from fairytale-loving Douglas Carter Beane lacks the magic touch
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★★★☆☆ Irish siblings bicker and banter in an amusing but unremarkable black comedy
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★★★★☆ Lucas Hnath's 75-minute docudrama uses his mother's experience"and her voice"to tell her terrifying story
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★★★☆☆ Rajiv Joseph's new play explores the confessional power of the pen and paper
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★★★★☆ The FBI interrogation of an unlikely whistleblower yields a powerful docudrama
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★★★★★ Henry VIII's wives get the royal treatment in this 80-minute musical celebration of girl power
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