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Grand Horizons - the only original new play written by a woman on Broadway this season . . .Read
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A Soldier's Play - the play's character-driven plot that keeps us in its thrall from start to finish. Read
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My Name Is Lucy Barton - Olive Strout's melancholy memoir adapted as a solo play with Laura Linney deftly narrating in the voice of both the mother and daughter whose brief reunion drives the plot. . .Read
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The Inheritance, Part One & Part Two -
Closing 3/15/19
This award-winning production of a new American play arrives from London ’s West End with a top-notch cast, almost seven hours of engrossing dialogue, and an array of challenging themes.
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Tina- The Tina Turner Musical -
With the arrival of Tina on Broadway the jukebox genre takes on a feminist sound and a modern social conscience. Indeed, it may well be the first me-too musical of the millennial.Read
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical - a brightly wrapped, intricately decorated package with little inside. It's racy, sometimes vulgar, and always indifferent to historical context and narrative logic. This makes it just the right stuff for the Trump eraRead
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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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Hadestown - the most original new musical on Broadway takes us to hell and back to a soaring musical score. 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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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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Anatomy of a Suicide - Alice Birch brings a unique take to the intergenerational story, depicting three women simultaneously and exploring how they are connected by shared trauma that is passed down over time.Read
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Medea - . Nearly 2500 years ago, Medea came in last, along with Euripides' other contributions, at the City Dionysia playwrights competition. She's gotten her revenge. For at least a century, the scorned wife has been all the rage. She ties Hamlet for ubiquitous Broadway revivals, appearing each decade from the 1970s to the aughts. And no role has earned its actor as many Tony Awards or inspired more contemporary adaptations. Read
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky understood that many spouses had a blindspot about marriage in the mid-twentieth century. And he managed, to help us laugh it right out into the open. While the New Group has built a reputation for smart work, their musicalized version is disappointingly lackluster. Read
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Timon of Athens - Instead of revealing the fun in Timon of Athens , Godwin more frequently reinforces the sense that this is a work resistant not only to playfulness but probably to performance. Read
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Sing Street - The show will transfer to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre beginning 3/26/20. based on John Carney's 2016 feature film of the same name Sing Street teams up many of the creatives from Once which was also launched at New York Theatre Workshop Read
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Harry Towsend's Last Stand- Nothing in Eastman's play, directed by Karen Carpenter, comes close to the meticulousness of the stage itself. Read
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one in two - this compelling three-actor play by Donja R. Love is receiving a superb world-premiere production under the sure-handed direction of Stevie Walker-Webb. Read
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The Thin Placeextended to 1/26/20-Lucas Hnath's new play is so willowy, so wafting, and, ultimately, so wishy-washy that the play seems to float away even as you're watching it. Read
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Judgment Day -
A 1937 play that feels very much of the moment is given an operatic staging at the Park Avenue Armory Read
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London Assurance-
a wonderful showcase for grand affectations and the presumptive attitudes. These unapologetically sustain it from beginning to end. Read
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Little Shop of Horrors - Mayer convincingly sells Little Shop of Horrors as a near-perfect piece of musical theater writing. Read
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Hamnet -
Shakespeare, played maturely with a mix of grim optimism and snarky despair by Aran Murphy in his professional debut, has been stuck at eleven for a long, long time.
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Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation -
How did we survive this long interval without Alessandrini's insightful satirizing and inspired spoofing of Broadway shows both current and on occasion recent past? This corner welcomes it back as it again demonstrates that it has what it takes to mock the mediocre even as it also joyously celebrates the parodic life upon the wicked stage
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Leopoldstadt Tom Stoppard's latest play blends Austrian history with what happened to a middle class Jewish family in this seminal work . . . Read
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The Haystack Roxana Silbert's brilliant opener for Hampstead is a thrilling drama about spying, counter terrorism and obsession . . . . Read
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -
David Catlin has written as well as directed a stunning dramatic narrative that combines a period in the life of the novelist herself, and the circumstances that served to ignite her imagination for her novel. Read
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The Amen Corner it is a great pleasure to witness a remarkable play written by one of America's most gifted and important 20th-century writers, James Baldwin Read
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Guns & Powder -
Signature, as always, is to be commended for putting considerable resources into what and probably will be, once cuts and changes are made, a very fine musical. Read
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Amadeus -
Every now and then the stars align with a perfect play, superb direction,
set and costumes, inspired lighting and a performance by the lead that is
brilliant. Such is the case with Amadeus at the Folger Theatre, with Ian
Merrill Peakes as Salieri. Read
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White Pearl -
Anchuli Felicia King hass juxtaposed race, ethnicity and the responsibilities of the cosmetic business, which after all is engaged in the practice of illusion. Plenty of conflict to work with.
A Chorus Line - Signature Theatre has a reputation that goes far beyond its Arlington, Virginia home for taking "classic" or "forgotten" musicals and making them new again. That's certainly true of their current show Read
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