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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s ‘Daphne’s Dive’ at Signature Theatre by Carol Rocamora

Philadelphia-born Quiara Alegría Hudes sets her newest play in a North Philly bar, against a backdrop of family and civic unrest.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PM
Friday, April 29, 2016

Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

The special effects in Ivo Van Hove’s stunningly radical production of The Crucible threaten to overwhelm Arthur Miller’s eloquent plea for decency and integrity.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:26PM
Sunday, April 24, 2016

‘The Father’ and ‘Blackbird’ on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

Some plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird— both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both deali…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

When slaves in Egypt owned slaves in Virginia by CAROL ROCAMORA

How could Jews, of all people, have owned slaves in the antebellum South? Matthew Lopez’s inspiring new play, The Whipping Man, uses one such family as a parable of faith, family, free…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:58PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Four Lears in Six Months by Carol Rocamora

(Frank Langella as Lear in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production in January) “These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend us no good.” So predicts Gloucester in King L…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:28PM
Friday, July 18, 2014

All Hail Macbeth! by Carol Rocamora

“By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes.” A veritable army of Macbeths have been marching through New York these past few years, culminating in the spectacular one…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:42PM
Sunday, October 30, 2011

A discovery in N.Y., a fixture in Philly by Carol Rocamora

Watching Bruce Graham's absurdist comedy Any Given Monday, now being presented in New York by Ambler's Act II Playhouse, can't help but produce a warm and fuzzy feeling, especially if you're…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:29PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards