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Beetlejuice -
Like the movie, the musical has been cast with artists who are first-rate clowns. . . . Read
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Tootsie - To paraphrase Al Jolson's famous song, Toot, toot,Tootsie, hello! Read
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Hadestown - the most original new musical on Broadway takes us to hell and back to a soaring musical score. 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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Be More ChillClosing 8/11!
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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The Cher Show - Closing 8/18/19! 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 Closing 8/11!Read
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King Kong - closing 8/18! The iconic four-footed super hero is musicalized, and the beast once again upstages the beauty. . . Read
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Pretty Woman -Closing 8/18! 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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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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I Spy a Spy -
At a time when there's such turmoil at out borders and disagreement within, it takes a good deal of courage to pen a musical that takes a lighthearted look at immigrations. But Jamie Jackson and So Hee Youn's musical somehow does that with charm and humor. Read
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Reborning -
Zayd Dohrn's three-person play is a family affair. Director Lori Triolo, who also acts has brought her mom and dad along for the ride: Joe-Marie Triolo's the art director and Peter Triolo designed the meticulously detailed set. . Read
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A Strange Loop -
Michael R. Jackson's semi-autobiographical musical transforms oversharing into high art. Read
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Fairview - Extended to 8/11/19! Jackie Sibblies Drury's challenging and smart Pulitzer Prize–winner receives an encore run at Theatre for a New Audience. Read
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Toni Stone - April Mathis as the narrator and title character hits this world premiere's winning run. Read
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Life Sucks -
Chekhov would probably be delighted with Aaron Posner's updated version of Uncle Vanya.
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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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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 end of history . . . Jack Thorne's latest play looks at his own family history and the way parents pass values to their children. . . .
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Europe Michael Longhurst kicks off his directorship of the Donmar Warehouse in a still pertinent 1994 play with a spectacular close . . .
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The Hunt The Almeida stages Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg's rural nightmare when suspicion escalates into brutality and injustice . . .
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Present Laughter -Matthew Warchus and Andrew Scott have reimagined Noël Coward's play . Risk missing this at your peril!. . . Read
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Bitter Wheat David Mamet's new play about a movie mogul sexual predator stars John Malkovich. "It rips the pashmina off the suppurating wound that is show business." was the tagline .
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Rosmersholm Ibsen's complex play gets a state of the art production from Ian Rickson starring Hayley Atwell, Giles Terera and Tom Burke . . . .
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Waitress -
Broadway hit musical comedy Waitress brings pies to London . . .
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9 to 5
- Dolly Parton's musical about sexism in the workplace comes to London . . . .
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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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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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Selling Kabul -
Lest any theater-goers' eyes glaze over at the mention of geopolitics, be mindful that riveting drama is often ripped from the headlines. And Sylvia Khoury's new play is, make no mistake, a riveting drama.Read
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Twelfth Night -
The prolific master came to be known as The Bard of Avon. If the theater company that bears his name keeps up the pace, of its opening production, one day we might call him The The Netflix of Lenox.Read
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Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story a -
Long live Rock and Roll! That heart-beating, throbbing, rhythm which sent mainstream contemporary music into a tailspin in mid-1950's America. Berkshire Theatre Group has brought this era back to life Read
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A Raisin in the Sun - a powerful, contemporary version of an important American classic.
The world has gone mad today/ And good's bad today/ And black's white today/ And day's night today/ And that gent today/ You gave a cent today/ Once had several chateaux …/ Anything goes.
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.
