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July 11, 2024
Empire : The Musical Stacks Up 102 Stories, Every One a ClichéA cringey new musical about the rise of the Empire State Building.
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July 11, 2024
Oh, Mary! Is Excellently UncivilCole Escola’s Mary Todd Lincoln farce transfers uptown, preserving the union between absurdity and hilarity.
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June 30, 2024
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June 23, 2024
Three-Sister Harmony in Find Me Here Plus an array of short-run summer shows to watch for if they return.
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June 20, 2024
The Drag-Ball Cats Is Good Well, now, how about that!
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June 18, 2024
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June 16, 2024
Return of the Musical Rumble: The Outsiders Does the Tony Award-winning stage adaptation stay gold?
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June 16, 2024
An Estate That Divides: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate Sarah Paulson is furious and fearsome in this Tony Award-winning play.
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June 16, 2024
Here’s to Them. Who’s Like Them? Damn Few. Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
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June 16, 2024
Stereophonic Moves to Broadway, and Thunder HappensThe Tony Award-winning play is a love song, bittersweet and wounded and ferociously loyal, to the act of making art.
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June 16, 2024
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June 16, 2024
Feeling the Illinoise , This Time Through Movement Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
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June 16, 2024
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June 12, 2024
Time Out of Mind: The Welkin and Hilma Two plays that mess with your sense of now.
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June 7, 2024
Coach Coach Goes to Camp CampDoes Bailey Williams’s wellness-industry satire self-actualize?
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May 24, 2024
11 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Summer From Titanic (not the movie) to Cats (very much not the movie).
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May 14, 2024
Here There Are Blueberries Keeps This Moment at Arm’s LengthAs powerful as this Pulitzer-finalist play about Auschwitz is, it studiously avoids the conversations people are having right now.
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May 8, 2024
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May 3, 2024
The On-and-Off Sparks of The Keep Going Songs Abigail and Shaun Bengson’s music-theater piece soars when it’s not trapped in twee.
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Apr. 28, 2024
Staff Meal Deserves Five Stars on YelpA play about restaurant-making that’s likely to resonate with any underpaid, overwhelmed, hyperpassionate, exhausted creator.
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Apr. 24, 2024
Stomping As They Climb in Jordans Ife Olujobi’s claws-out satire doesn’t quite reach the tragic potential of its DEI-in-the-workplace premise.
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Apr. 24, 2024
The New Uncle Vanya ’s Aims Are Off Steve Carell & Co. are individually appealing in Heidi Schreck’s translation, but the show itself never comes to life.
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Apr. 22, 2024
Putin Has a Lean and Hungry Look in Patriots The Crown creator Peter Morgan’s new play redirects his eye for palace intrigue to the power dynamics of post-Perestroika Moscow.
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Apr. 21, 2024
Dancing on the Surface in Cabaret and Orlando Atmosphere is all in the loose hustle and bustle of a pre-show, but in a play proper, it can only carry you so far.
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Apr. 18, 2024
Living Is Harder: Suffs and Grenfell Suffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
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Apr. 16, 2024
Writing Down the Bones: Sally & Tom A curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Apr. 15, 2024
Look, I Made a Woman: Lempicka The musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
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Apr. 14, 2024
St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of Rats The Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
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Apr. 11, 2024
Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing) A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
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Mar. 28, 2024
Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s Tommy Yes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
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Mar. 27, 2024
Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
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Mar. 24, 2024
Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come! At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
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Mar. 21, 2024
Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
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Mar. 19, 2024
In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
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Mar. 18, 2024
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
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Mar. 14, 2024
Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The Effect A musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
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Mar. 11, 2024
Corruption’ s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
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Mar. 10, 2024
The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead Outlaw From the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
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Mar. 7, 2024
Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
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Feb. 28, 2024
In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All Having Itamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
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Feb. 26, 2024
Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing Pericles An affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
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Feb. 25, 2024
Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt In this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
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Feb. 20, 2024
Sunset Baby’ s Troubled Children of the RevolutionDominique Morisseau’s play looks at the time after revolutionary fire is reduced to a simmer.
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Feb. 14, 2024
Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda Bara Two solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
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Feb. 13, 2024
Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The Apiary Virtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
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Feb. 11, 2024
Too Too Solid: Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet The British comedian, so deft on a standup stage, has a go at Shakespeare—and tightens up.
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Feb. 8, 2024
The Trouble With Trolls, in Russian Troll Farm Sarah Gancher’s play takes us to the bunker where disinformation begins its journey.
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Feb. 7, 2024
We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following Evening A maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
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