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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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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Daddy - A deluxe production of a not quite readyv for prime time play co-produced by the New Group and Vineyard Theatre, and starring Alan Cumming in the title role. . . 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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Superhero -
Overall, this musical has quite a few nice moments but they are just not quite super enough to insure its success. Read
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The Cake - You may not agree with Debra Jo Rupp's refusal to bake a cake for a same sex wedding, but you'll enjoy the 90 minutes you spent with her at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I. . . 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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Alice By Heart - a new musical by the Spring Awakening team initiates MCC's beautiful new main stage. . . 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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The Price Of Thomas Scott -
With its latest rescue mission the Mint Theater Company has returned to that corner of theatrical attic reserved for forgotten and under appreciated women playwrights Read
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The Jungle - this powerful chronicle a real-life, pop-up community and its principled residents speaks powerfully to the way the Trump government is handling refugees languishing at United States borders and held in federal custody. That's the polyvalent nature of dramatic art. Read
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Blue Ridge - Abby Rosebrook's play is blessed by having Marin Ireland and a stellar ensemble to portray the damaged people in her play set in a religious halfway house in Appalachia. . . 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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The Other Josh Cohen - this award winning, amusing little musical in a new production at the Westside Theater. . . Read
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Gloria: A Life -Now running through March 31, 2019! A dynamically staged look at America's best known feminist's life. . .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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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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Cougar
Rose Lewenstein's new play examines the relationship between an older woman and a young man half her age ...
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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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Company Stephen Sondheim's Company gets a meaningful and invigorating makeover with Bobby becoming Bobbie and starring Rosalie Craig and Patti Lupone . . . .
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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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Six Henry VIII's famous succession of six wives form the basis for this feminist, satirical and thrilling musical peopled by pop princesses . . . .
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Tina Tina opens in London with a fabulous new star Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner . . . .
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Queen of Basel - this world premiere by Hilary Bettis throws one liners around like someone who is cleaning out a closet. Read
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AdmissionsExtended again to 3/17! to 3/17!- Jonathan Harmon's play in a fine DC productionRead
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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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An Inspector Calls - a brilliantly staged and acted revival starting on noe in DC and then touring to LA, Boston and Chicago . . . 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. Even if you've always been that Barely-in-the-background kind of guy/You still matter— Dear Evan Hansen
