Ink -
James Graham's play has been staged with stupendous originality and style and is performed with gusto by a large cast, made even larger with double casting. Read
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Hillary and Clinton - Laurie Metcalf is the chief reason to see Lucas Hath's imagined fly-on-the-wall peek at three scenes from a complicated marriage made even more complicated by. politics and marriage. Read
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Burn This -
Lanford Wilson's 32-year-old play is given new, if not entirely sucessful life at the Hudson Theater . .. Read
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Oklahoma! - Daniel Fish's new look at the musical that launched the golden age of musicals. . .the ear hugging tunes are still there, but with a far less sunny interpretation. . . Read
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King Lear -this is indeed a not to be missed star turn by Jackson, with enough positive assets to overcome the directorial missteps. Read
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Be More Chill -
a musical for Millennials that has the brassy, old-Broadway sound of Burt Bacharach's Promises, Promises and the 1971 revisal of No, No, Nanette. . . Read
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To Kill a Mockingbird - A beautifully acted and staged new and more relevant production of Harper Lee's iconic novel Read
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NetworkExtended to 6/08!- a high tech production of Paddy Chayevsky's movie with Bryan Cranston now telling us to be mad as hell. . . Read
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The Cher Show - The Neil Simon Theater feels like Caesar's Palace but it does have 3 dazzlingly dressed Chers . . .Read
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The Prom - a fun musical entertainment with a message of tolerance Read
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King Kong - The iconic four-footed super hero is musicalized, and the beast once again upstages the beauty. . . Read
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The Ferryman - Jez Butterworth's multi-generational family and political drama has so many assets that it's eminently watchable throught more than three hours. . . Read
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Pretty Woman - another movie hit sings and dances to Broadway, this one with an essentially sleazy pair turned into fairy tale romantic lovers. . . Read
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My Fair Lady - A lavishly staged new production of the ever "loverly" classic musical. . . Read
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Mean Girls - Another teen audience targeted movie now sing and dances on Broadway Read
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Frozen - A visually rich production that keeps us wide-eyed and on tenterhooks for more than two hours, even when we know how things are going to end. . . Read
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Come From Away - Its uplift message has helped this fact-based musical fly from Canada to Broadway. . . Read
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Dear Evan Hansen - A small musical's big heart and big on talent cast is now a welcome addition to the Broadway musical scene. . . Read
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Socrates -
Justice,friendship, virtue,poetry,theater, death, democracy! Tim Blake Nelson takes us through a Socrates' wide ranging philosophical ponderings about the meaning of life within the context of his lifetime Read
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Faust 2.0 - An intriguing modernization of Goethe's dense tragedy gets lost in a multimedia spectacle. Read
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Do You Feel Anger? hilarious/often chilling play that moves gainfully from silly to serious to surreal Read
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Ain't No Mo' -
There are some things you can't pack in a suitcase. This becomes glaringly evident in Jordan E. Cooper's new play currently heating up the boards at the Public's LuEsther Hall. Read
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The Lehman Trilogy -
Three superb actors lead us through the journey of three immigrant brothers' from Bavaria to America, from store keepers to bankers, from "too big to fail" to failure . . .Read
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White Devil -
If A Game of Thrones is your kind of series, you'll find a lot to like about the Red Bull Theater production of John Webster's play Read
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Juno and the Paycock The middle play of Sean'Casey's Dublin trilogy in a deeply moving and remarkably relevant production as part of the Irish Rep's O'Casey Season Read
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The Mother -
Isabelle Huppert stars as the title character in this chapter of Florian Zeller's trilogy about mental illness— in this case dementia triggered by empty nest syndrome and anxiety about aging. . . Read
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Fleabag - This extended monologue on sex, dating, pornography, masturbation, dysfunctional families, and more is not for the easily offended. . .Read
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Sea Wall / A Life - Do 2 stellar actors, 2 successful playwrights, 2 thematically linked monologues add up to truly electic theatrical experience? Read
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Hurricane Diane Madeleine George's play nods to Euripides' The Bacchae as it focuses on the very contemporary problem of climate change. . .Read
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Boesman and Lena - A powerfully directed and performed new production of Athol Fugard's play. . .Read
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Fiddler On the Roof -
The not to be missed Yiddish version of the golden era's most perfect musical is now uptown. . . Read
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Nassim - The current Barrow Street Theatrical production arrived in New York just in time for the holidays. But its message about the power of language to connect people in unsettled times will mean something long after the holidays are gone. Read
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Fiddler on the Roof The show will move uptown to Stage 42 from 2/11/19; opening 2/21/19 -
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's (NYTF)
excellent Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof as directed by Joel Grey makes us fall in love with Tevye, his wife, Golde, and his three daughters all over again. Read
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The Phlebotomist Ella Road's futuristic play looks at the rise of the fittest and the finest with its implications for the rest of us . . . .
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Waitress -
Broadway hit musical comedy Waitress brings pies to London . . .
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Equus Peter Shaffer's classic play gets the best production of its lifetime . . . .
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9 to 5
- Dolly Parton's musical about sexism in the workplace comes to London . . . .
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Home I'm Darling Katherine Parkinson stars in this comedy about life as a retro-housewife in the 1950s . . . .
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All About Eve Ivo van Hove's fascinating adaptation of an iconic film with Gillian Anderson and Lily James . . . .
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The Price Arthur Miller's play about a dysfunctional family has David Suchet in the lead as a second hand furniture dealer . . . .
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Thriller Live The show which features Michael Jackson's music celebrates its 10th year . . . .
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Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie's novel is dramatized in the magnificent setting of a 1920s Edwardian Baroque council chamberwith exciting director Lucy Bailey in charge. . . .
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Caroline, Or Change -Sharon D Clarke earns standing ovations as Caroline in Tony Kushner's musical autobiography . . . . Read
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The Lehman Trilogy- a look at the origins of the bank which failed spectacularly in 2008, with a British star cast and Sam Mendes as director . . .
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Mythic The God of the Underworld Hades is the most attractive prospect in this musical myth of the girl and those fateful pomegranate seeds . . . .
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Othello English Touring Theatre bring their stimulating production of Othello on tour . . . .
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Tina Tina opens in London with a fabulous new star Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner . . . .
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The Glass Menagerie Noise Within's production sets a firm course for this journey with four performers guiding the ship with equal finesse . . Read
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Hype Man - Idris Goodman's play, unfolds over 90 exciting and challenging minutes . . Read
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Washington - DC
Junk - Ayad Akhtar's play takes on the high-flying finance boys of the New York stock market in the 1980's. . . Read
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Grand Hotel - The immediate reaction to walking into Signature Theatre's splendid production is awe. Paul Tate Depoo III's set, redolent of old Europe, is magnificent. Much of the audience would be happy to check in immediately. Read
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The Play That Goes Wrong -
For a show, the kind that takes place in a theater, as opposed to, say, the White House or Congress, that deserves the label "farce," Washington audiences need look no further than the Kennedy Center. . . Read
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Just think of those shocks you've got/ And those knocks you've got/ And those blues you've got/ From that news you've got/ And those pains you've got/ (If any brains you've got). . ./ 'Cause Franklin knows/ Anything goes.
—Cole Porter lyric quoted in Thomas Friedman's 3/06/09 New York Times column The Trump Musical: 'Anything Goes'. You gotta crawl around in another man's skin 'fore you can really know him
—Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mckingbird
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more—
the famous quote by the newscaster of Paddy Chayefsky's film now back as a Broadway playstarring Bryan Cranston.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.— Eliza Doolittle back on the boards this season both in Shaw's Pygmalion and the beloved musical My Fair Lady.
