1984 - George Orwell's novel about a dystopian world has been relevant for almost 70 years. Current events have resulted in starry new Broadway production . . .
Marvin's Room - Scott McPherson's heroic Bessie still tugs at our heart strings but also manages to make us laugh. . . Read
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A Doll's House, Part 2Extended to 1/07/18!- 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 - Closing 9/17! Even an injured knee can't keep Andy Karl from making our visit to Punxsutawney, Pa. fun . . . Read
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Bandstand - Closing 9/17!
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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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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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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Van Gogh's Ear - The Ensemble for the Romantic Century unique chamber concerts combied with a theatrically staged narrative begins the company's its season in New York, with the story of the painter who (forgive the pun) had an ear for music Read
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Summer Shorts 2017, Series B - The second half of this year's Summer Shorts festival features one-act plays by Chris Cragin-Day, Lindsey Kraft and Andrew Leeds, and Neil LaBute Read More
2017 New York Music Festival - Our latest & final Festival review: Freedom Riders (previously: Blackbird, Peace Love and Cupcakes, Generation Me, The Shakespearean Jazz Show, Previous reviews:,Numbers Nerds,Matthew McConnaughey v. the Devil, My Dear Watson). . . Read
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Curvy Widow - Straight from its New Jersey premiere with cast and creatives in place, and with Nancy Opel as the shapely widow, it's likely to be a critic proof crowd pleaser. . . Read
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Lear deBessonet stages a delightfully diverting production of this beloved classic at the Delacorte. Read
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Singing Beach - Tina Howe's worthy but flawed real-surreal new play about climate change and aging . . . Read
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Money Talks - a wacky new musical in which George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln join Benjamin Franklin in song. Read
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Death of a Salesman - Mitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama. . .Read
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Pipeline - in her Lincoln Center debut Dominique Morrisseau once again tackles a universal social problem from a personal perspective. . . Read
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Hamlet - Oscar Isaac as the melancholy Dane at the Pubic TheaterRead
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Spoon River Soulpepper's exhilarating 95-minute musical adapted from the famous "anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters. . .Read
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AMERIKE— The Golden Land - Extended to 8/20! This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August Read
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Of Human Bondage - More than a hundred years and 3 movies later, W. Somerset Maugham's novel comes to the stage, courtesy of Toronto's Soulpepper Company. . . Read
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Kim's Convenience - Soulpepper's home grown comedy hit that seeded a TV sitcom is live and lively again on 42nd Street Read
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Napoli, Brooklyn - Meghan Kennedy's play about the effect of the burgeoning social changes and an actual flight disaster on her own family. . . Read
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Animal - Claire Lizzimore's play may be providing a heavy dose of the psychotic. But who will complain when its being doled out by the terrific Rebecca Hall. . . Read
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Sweetee You gotta have heart and this little show has it despite plot and other problems . . .
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The Government InspectorReturning for another 6 weeks at New World Stages! - Don't be surprised if some of the over-the-top characters in Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Gogol's farce remind you of some of the real life shenanigans in our current body politic. . . 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
Against The premiere of Christopher Shinn's latest play is about a Silicon Valley billionaire turned philanthropist to make fundamental changes to society with Ben Whishaw in the lead . . . -
Apologia Stockard Channing is the draw in Jamie Lloyd's revival of a play about a 1960s activist as a mother. . . -
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John Tiffany revives Jim Cartwright's seminal slice of gritty 1980s life in a town in the North West at the Royal Court. . . -
Yerma
Simon Stone's adaptation of Lorca's tale of the childless woman is brought up to date with the remarkable Billie Piper in the lead . . . -
CommonDC Moore's new play for Headlong and the National Theatre astonishes and confuses. . . Read
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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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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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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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Two Gentlemen of Verona -
Another summer means more Shakespearean revelry out by the abandoned bear caves in the old Griffith Park Zoo by the Independent Shakespeare Company (ISC). . . Read
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As You Like It -
The venerable Antaeus Theatre Company does Shakespeare in its permanent new performance space . . Read
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Appropriate - Even though it premiered in 2013, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play reverberates with today's headlines about greed and hypocrisy, white supremacy and anti-Semitism Read
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Folk - A sense of belonging — a safe place where humans can be their authentic selves. Tom Wells explores these concepts at the Town Hall Theatre in Chester, MA Read
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Company -
Barrington Stage's revival is so fresh and so stimulating it retains its profound ability to provoke an audience to think while under the hypnosis of the dazzling Sondheim score.. .
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This - Melissa James Gibson's 2009 play still resonates at Barrington's 2nd stage. . .Read
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Time's like a river,sometimes
Time is an ocean—
Lyric from
The Band's Visit
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 ,
Even if you've always been that Barely-in-the-background kind of guy/You still matter— Dear Evan Hansen
