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This show is uplifting without being saccharine. It is thoughtful without being solicitous. It is challenging without being overbearing. All in all "Sardines" is a gift on all levels.
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Bryce Edwards and Mike Davis have created something rare at Birdland. Their centennial tribute is part history, part dance party, and part love letter. With virtuosos onstage and a cache of …
Don’t let the American Songbook remain a rumor in your life. 92NY’s Lyrics & Lyricists series — and the full 2025–26 season at The 92nd Street Y — offers a rare opportunity to …
Wrapping up many weeks on the road together, and a long time as close friends, the Bean Tones sing beautifully and banter comfortably between songs.
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By Tulis McCall OK – for starters I did not see the movie with Winona Ryder. Did not, not, not. So I did not know what to expect. I am pleased to report that this is a near perfect pro…
Jonas has crafted a thoughtful, truthful meditation on parenthood, community, and the stories we tell to survive. Life rarely offers clear choices; more often, we navigate shadows and assemb…
Let yourself get swept up into the labyrinthine maze of affection the piece creates. Take each moment and vignette as it comes and allow yourself to be delighted by it, after all, the piec…
This sad, scary, but ultimately heartfelt tale tracks a trio of gay men as they bond together while trying to cope with their own personal problems, each man more damaged than the next.
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This evening proved that the 92nd Street Y is New York's most generous room for the human voice — a place where Broadway stars and concert virtuosos share the same hallowed stage, and wher…
The combination of the three selected plays is a good choice for an evening spotlighting the famed Russian playwright
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We watch Ilya and Shane's relationship unfold, see Shane's relationship with his mom, then with Rose Landry, and hear lots about Reeboks.
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By David Walters You’ll fall in love. You’ll fall in love with performers Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland (if you haven’t already from their previous shows), and become a life-long fan. …
I felt that I was part of something very very special as I sat in Birdland on the what would have been the 100th birthday of Miles Davis.
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Noel Coward's Private Lives is a classic of marital disharmony and its unexpected appeal, presented with brio by The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
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Conrad Herwig's Latin Side of Miles and Trane is jazz at its most generous: rigorous, joyful, and gloriously alive. At thirty years of catalog and counting, Herwig has built one of the great…
Indian Princesses, now playing at the Atlantic Theater, is a cringe worthy show. White people culture cringe worthy. And that's the point. Or at least one of them.
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DeCotis muses on a whole range of subjects, based around the themes of love, sex and gender dynamics. She also throws in three Broadway-style show stoppers. It all makes for a fun night full…
By David Walters Specimen, playing through June 6 at Axis Theatre, can be metaphorically about many things. It can be about the brokenness of this country and its focus on money acquisition,…
The performances are spot on. These three actors have their hands on the reins of their respective carriages and do not wander off the trail once the journey begins.
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Claws is the creepiest theatre experience I’ve ever had (in a way that I’m still recovering from).
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The Emporium, a recently discovered treasure by Thorton Wilder, completed by Kirk Lynn, is compelling, entertaining, multi-leveled, and a must see.
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For one luminous hour at SoHo Playhouse, Liz Coin builds a one-woman cathedral of positivity that admits everyone in the room. Lizzy Sunshine is part stand-up, part clown-show, part secular …
Spellbinding Strauss was a luminous reminder of why the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has become indispensable to New York's cultural landscape. Maestro Bernard and Sara Beth Pearson delivere…
Malone wrote a musical comedy?! Yep. Lemme tell ya: The tale of Cyrano De Bergerac inspired Malone to write the book for STARTSTRUCK. She then collaborated with Emily Saliers - I k…
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now closed their 2025–26 season with Strauss writ glorious: an evening of mountain air mastery, scholarly programming, and youthful artistry. Audiences hung…
