A Doll's House, Part 2 - Lucas Hnuth's highly original sequel to Ibsen's classic adds yet another terrific new play to the Broadway season. . . Read
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Anastasia - The famous Russian princess fairy tale boasts a top team Read
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Hello, Dolly! - Jerry Herman's bouncy score plus Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce . . .no wonder this old-fashioned musical is the season's hottest ticket. . . Read
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Groundhog Day - Even an injured knee can't keep Andy Karl from making our visit to Punxsutawney, Pa. fun . . . Read
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Bandstand -
The masterful choreographer of Hamilton and a first-class musical theater team have concocted a show that mixes music inspired by the swing era with an overall sensibility that's up-to-the-minute.. .Read
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Indecent - Paula Vogel's more relevant than ever homage to the power (and danger) of creativity and dissent. . .Read
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War Paint -musical stars Patty LuPone and Christine Ebersole do their utmost to make to stars of the beauty industry fascinating. . . Read
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Oslo - it's a talky play, but the talk is wonderful in this welcome Broadway production Read
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Present Laughter - Kevin Kline as Noel Coward's self-absorbed Garry Essendine and a topnotch cast once again prove there's nothing insignificant about wit and laughter in an age weighed down by significantly weighty issues. . . Read
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Sweat - 2017 Pulitzer Winner! The Trump presidency makes the story of Lynn Nottage's under-educated, blue collar workers more relevant than ever. . . Read
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Miss Saigon -
Claude-Michel Schönberg-Alain Boublil- Richard Maltby Jr musical is back at the same theater where it made its long running Broadway debut-- and so is the helicopter. . .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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Sunday in the Park with George - A splendid revival of this century's premiere musical theater artist's masterpiece about a 19th century painter's masterpiece .. Read
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Sunset Boulevard -
Has-been movie star Norma Desmond' may not be ready for her close-up as she claims, but Glenn Close is not only ready but better than ever in her reprise of the demented Norma. . . Read
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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 - (update to now cover both Josh Groban and understudy Scott Stangland's as Pierre in the little musical engine that could at Broadway's 1000-seat Imperial theater. . . 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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A Bronx Tale - Chazz Palminteri's solo play gets yet another life as a Broadway musical. . . Read
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Cats. . .Back on Broadway - choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler brings new visual excitement to this critic proof mega-hit that now puts Andrew Lloyd Webber's name on three Broadway marquees Read
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School of Rock - It's a large, loud show with a totally improbable plot but it;s impossible not to root for its ensemble of super talented kids . . . .
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The Whirligig - Hamish Linklater dons his playwright's hat for a complex story about how the untimely death of a young woman sends her parents and others who knew her into a whirligig of grief and guilt. . . Read
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The Lucky One -A.A. Milne's 1922 play about sibling rivalry among the upper class gets another go by the Mint Theater. . . Read
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Sojourner & Her Portmanteau - two chapters of an ambitious cycle about a Nigerian-American famiy playing in repertory at New York Theatre Workshop Read
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Derren Brown: Secret - The
British mentalist and illusionist pulls out his full bag of tricks for his Atlantic Theater debut Read
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Venus - Suzan-Lori Parks 1996 play given a vivid new production as part of her Signature Residency Read
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Ernest Shackleton Loves Me - A Brooklyn artist and single-mother falls for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton across time in this quirky musical.. . Read
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Happy Days - Dianne Wiest joins a roster of distinguished stage performers who have undertaken the role over the 56 years since its premiere Read
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Pacific Overtures - Stephen Sondheim's complex musical given a timely political focus with drastic, but brilliant new staging John Doyle. . . Read
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The Roundabout - This little known J.B. Priestly 1932 comedy belongs within the once revered "drawing room" genre wherein trifling but also unsettling issues, both romantic and familial, got their due with lots of ado. . . . Read
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The AntipodesExtended yet again to 6/11!- Annie Baker applies her ear for authentic dialogue to a surreal-flavored story about the stories that shape our lives . . . Read
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Vanity FairExtended to 5/27! - Thackeray's epic story given the stylish Bedlam treatment at the Pearl Theater Read
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Church and State - a new play
about faith, politics, and the power of social media at New World Stages Read
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Sweeney ToddExtended to 12/31! -the Demon Barber's story goes immersive, its thrilling music intact and the pies and mash served before show time are delicious . . .Read
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Spamilton Extended again to 12/28/17!-
It was inevitable that Gerard Alessandrini would find the rap rage that has taken over the spotlight on Broadway with the mega hit Hamilton. . . Read More
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Cagney - Closing 5/28! The York Theater Company's big-little bio-musical transfers to the Westside Theatre for an open runRead More
Othello The Tobacco Factory and English Touring Theatre's Othello is the best I have ever seen for clarity and understanding. We were blown away by Mark Lockyer's Iago and Abraham Popoola's Othello . . . Read
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Manwatching - A play written by an anonymous woman playwright read unseen by an unprepared man. . . Read
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The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster's Jacobean Tragedy is played in the wonderful setting of an old London church . . . Read
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The FerrymanJez Butterworth's epic successor to Jerusalem is set in a family in Northern Ireland among the troubles and has its West End transfer booked . . . Read
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An American in Paris
London's Dominion Theatre welcomes the Tony award winning musical of An American in Paris with its balletic dance and fabulous visuals . . . Read
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The Girls
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's charming musical about the middle aged women who stripped off for a nude charity calendar is delightful, poignant and well worth seeing . . . Read
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -
John Tiffany's startling production of the eighth story in the Harry Potter series charms fans and Muggles alike in the theatrical event of the year . . . . . Read
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You don't make peace with the people you have dinner parties with. You make peace with the people who bomb your markets and blow up your buses. —Terje Rod-Larsen in Oslo
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the Locusts. Then there are people who watch them do it. . . Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it. — Addie, in
The Little Foxes
Dear Republicans, dear Mr. Trump: if you encircle our country with the tallest walls of steel while abolishing the NEA, the NEH, and PBS, you are not making America great again. We will be imprisoned in a vast cultural wasteland.— from open letter in defense of the Trump cuts to the arts and education by Paula Vogel, Publitzer Prize winner and author of
Indecent , now on Broadway
Even if you've always been that Barely-in-the-background kind of guy/You still matter— Dear Evan Hansen
