The little engines that could — The Band's Visit — was the big winner at the Tony awards nabbing best musical with best leading actress, best leading and featured actor, best director, and a handful more . . . details in our Omnibus Awards List
Travesties - A deliciously song and dance infused revival of Tom Stoppard's absurdist farce. .. Read
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The Iceman Cometh -
With Denzel Washington at its center, this production qualifies as a star revival. But the star is supported by 18 unusually able actorsRead
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Summer - the latest "jukesical" to hit Broadway, this one with 3 Donna Summers Read
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Saint Joan - This is a work filled with complex, difficult characters, a challenge from which Sullivan, Rashad, and the rest of the cast do not shy away. . . . Read
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My Fair Lady - A lavishly staged new production of the ever "loverly" classic musical. . . 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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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical - Embodied by a caper-cutting dynamo named Ethan Slater, Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants joins a long list of cartoon characters who have gravitated to the Broadway stage. Read
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Once On This Island - Tony Award for Best Musical Revival! This musical may be small in its scope, but when compared to some, it achieves its own sense of grandness by being both magical and seductive— an unbeatable combination. Read
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The Band's Visit -Winner of 10 Tony Awards-including best play, best actor/actress/director/book!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 now with Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber. . . 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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Othello - This summer's Shakespeare in the Park season kicks off with an Othello for the #MeToo era. Read
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Little Rock - Though it fails to flesh-out the constellation of historical personages that parade through its scenes, this historical pageant scores when it comes to delineating the nine black students who battled for a better education -- and won. Read
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First Love -Charles Mee's early "Love" play gets a second life at the Cherry Lane Theater. . . Read
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Desperate Measures - The delightful Shakespeare inspired musical is terrific as ever at New World Stages. . .Read
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Love and Intrigue -According to this high concept production, love and passion are the only available counterweight to all the evil in Friedrich Schiller's fictional universe — and, presumably, in our grim modern world, as well. . . Read
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Secret Life of Humans - David Byrne's play about what it means to be human is located at the intersection of science and philosophy. Read
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Dan Cody's Yacht -
A new play about the have and have not society's effect on equal educational opportunities. . . Read
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The Great Leap - a well-constructed plot in a well-conceived play by Lauren Yee works with exceptional acting bringing its characters to life. Read
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Woman and Scarecrow -
an ambitious play brimming with references to popular culture, literature, and mythology, and daringly juxtaposes the parable of Lazarus with the five nevers and four howls of King Lear. Read
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The Beast in the Jungle - Extended to 6/24!
The sublime cast of dancers headed by two stars from Broadway and the classical Ballet World— Tony Yazbek and Irina Dvorovenko— beautifully evokes the glad, sad and and scary elements of this half a century spanning love story. . . Read
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Bump - Chiara Atik's play will hit home with women who are or have been expectant mothers, as well as science buffs who would like to learn the quirky story behind the Odon Device Read
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Long Day's Journey into Night -
The Bristol Old Vic has brought New York a creditable staging of O'Neill's masterpiece. Lesley Manville is giving a performance that's damn near definitive. How fitting that these British Tyrones have made the long journey from southwest England to the city of the great playwright's birth. Read
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Paradise Blue -Extended for the 2nd time to 6/17! Dominique Morisseau's bluesy tribute to August Wilson, with a noirish nod to Tennessee Williams Read
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The Jewish King Lear - this is NOT Shakespeare's King Lear although Jacob Gordin's plot heavily draws upon the Bard's material, transposing it to Lithuania and beginning with a Purim feast Read
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Dance NationExtended again to 7/01/18! -
No play on the New York boards is fiercer or more original than Clare Barron's satire and unusually cast tween-aged group portrait Read
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A Brief History Of Women - Alan Ayckbourn's latest comedy is more the history of an ordinary man and an extraordinarily grand house. .. Read
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Summer And Smoke -
Even in a disappointing production like this, Williams's language still gives Marin Ireland, this Alma, an opportunity to break our hearts. . . Read
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Unexpected Joy - a big-voice femal quartet in a timely if not groundbreaking musical about issues dividing modern American families Read
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Transfers - Lucy Thurber's well directed, staged and acted but flawed new play. . .Read
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Mlima's TaleExtended to 6/05! -Beautifully staged and performed world premiere Read
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King Lear -
The Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Anthony Sher puts the grandeur back into Shakespeare's sublime tragedy. Read
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Letter to Harvey Milk - Extended to 6/30! If not a timeless American musical, this 90-minute show does offer an honest truth in a time that needs it Read
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Party Face -a superabundance of laughs and true confessions but at the end, it lacks significance and is just old hat. . . Read
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Sweeney ToddExtended again to 8/26/18! -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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Consent The National Theatre's production of Nina Raine's play about barristers and rape transfers to the West End . . . .
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Tartuffe The first production in both French and English in London's West End is of Moliere's Tartuffe . . . .
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Nightfall - Barney Norris's new play about the despair of a farming family losing everything . . . Read
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Mood Music-
Joe Penhall's play is set in the music industry with a debate about creative ownership and a superlative performance from Ben Chaplin
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Strictly Ballroom the Musical This is the new stage version of Baz Luhrmann's 1992 film Strictly Ballroom starring Will Young as the singer narrator . . . .
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Bat Out of Hell
Last year's Meatloaf and Jim Steinman hit at the Coliseum transfers to the Dominion . . . Read
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Tina Tina opens in London with a fabulous new star Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner . . . .
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Chicago Chicago lives again with all its razzle dazzle at London's Phoenix Theatre . . . .
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The Moderate Soprano - David Hare's latest play looks at the love story of the founders of Glyndebourne Opera in Sussex with artists fleeing Hitler's Germany . . . .
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Quiz James Graham's mock court room drama looks at the notorious case of the Coughing Millionaire cheats . . . .
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Pressure Superb play from actor David Haig about the weather for the D Day landings . . . .
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Dreamgirls Dreamgirls has found an appreciative audience at London's Savoy Theatre . .
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Macbeth The Scottish Play is the graveyard of many fine directors and actors and this one at the National Theatre is no exception . .
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The Best Man Gore Vidal's play is a timeless and perfectly balanced study of the decency versus expediency of political rivals . .
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Mary Stuart - Schiller's historical play looks at the psychological similarities between Elizabeth I and her cousin, the captive, Mary Queen of Scots.
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Into the Numbers - Christopher Chen's play is a harrowing account of research into what was termed the Rape of Nanking and the impact on those who write about genocide . . . Read More
Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks tightens up the musical version of his movie for London's opening of a quirky show with tunes and laughter . . . Read More -
Red Speedo -A sizzling production of Lucas Hnath's at the Road Company. . . . Read
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Soft Power -
Inside the hugely fertile mind of David Henry Hwang, cross-cultural musings are at play with political insights stemming from the result of the 2016 presidential election. Joining in this oddball cerebral jamboree are ideas for sitcoms, memories of his father’s immigrant journey and — why not! — a lifelong love-hate relationship with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. . . Read
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Ice -
Delightful things seem to happen when ice cream trucks find their way into productions at the 24th Street Theatre, especially soul-nurturing magical ice cream trucks that have their own Instagram accounts. . . Read More
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John - although Annie Baker's play is long, the dialogue and plot never lose intrigue. . . Read
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Paper Dolls -
Mosaic is to be commended for producing this as part of its Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival because it does not fit into any specific category. . . Read
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