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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face The post We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Monday, February 24, 2020

Cambodian Rock Band: Discovering Melody and Meaning in Tragedy by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Lauren Yee’s play finally gets its New York premiere and a rockin’ production at the Signature Theatre The post Cambodian Rock Band: Discovering Me…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Mack & Mabel: This One’s for Jerry by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Brushed off and spiffed up, the cult favorite 1974 musical finally gets the Encores! treatment The post Mack & Mabel: This One’s for Jerry appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:20PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020

The Sabbath Girl: A Cute but Clichéd Cross-Cultural Rom-Com by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City The post The Sabbath Girl: A Cute but Clichéd Cr…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Monday, February 10, 2020

Hamlet: The Star’s the Thing by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Oscar nominee Ruth Negga makes a stellar New York stage debut in a somewhat tedious staging of Shakespeare’s soliloquy-heavy tragedy The post Hamlet: The Star�

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PM
Friday, January 31, 2020

Next to Normal: It’s Gonna Be Good by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Director Michael Greif brings the musical to D.C. for a brief but intensely emotional run starring Rachel Bay Jones The post Next to Normal: It’s G…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:24PM
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren’t Alright by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children The post Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren 

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PM
Monday, January 20, 2020

Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a Twist by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon The post Timon of Athens: From R…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:32PM
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond The post My Name Is Lucy Barton: Ma…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM
Monday, December 16, 2019

Sing Street: We’re With the Band by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley The post Sing Street: We’re With the Band appeare…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza The post Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where A…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019

One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama The post One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead appeared first on New York …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:44PM
Friday, December 6, 2019

Anything Can Happen in the Theater: Yeston Time by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Gerard Alessandrini’s valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities The post Anything Can Happen in the Th…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:01PM
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Jagged Little Pill arrives on Broadway as a musical with angst to spare: Review by Melissa Rose Bernardo

“Ooh, this could get messy,” sings the ensemble of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill at the top of Act 2. It’s actually a bit from “Hands Clean” — no…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:30PM
Monday, November 25, 2019

A Bright Room Called Day: The Fascist and the Furious by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ The post A Bright Room Called Day: The Fascist …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PM
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The Half-Life of Marie Curie: Fun With Science (Really!) by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ America's most popular living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, shines a spotlight on two history-making female scientists   The post The Half-Life of Marie Curie…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM
Friday, November 15, 2019

Evita: Star Quality to Spare by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Thanks to star Solea Pfeiffer, the City Center Encores! production will leave you on a rainbow high The post Evita: Star Quality to Spare appeared first on New Y…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:11PM

Brian Stokes Mitchell: The Man We Love by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The Tony-winning Broadway baritone is as swoon-worthy as ever in a show packed with his holiday and showtune favorites The post Brian Stokes Mitchell: The Man We…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:30AM
Monday, November 11, 2019

Fires in the Mirror: A Hot-Button Show Whose Glow Hasn’t Dimmed by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Anna Deavere Smith’s one-person show still burns bright with star Michael Benjamin Washington and a timely-as-ever theme The post Fires in the Mirr…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Kristin Chenoweth For the Girls: It’s Good to See Her, Isn’t It? by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The ever-popular Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway with a too-brief concert run The post Kristin Chenoweth For the Girls: It’s Good to See Her, Isn�

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM
Monday, October 28, 2019

Seared: Theresa Rebeck’s Kitchen-Set Comedy Needs More Fire by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Theresa Rebeck centers her newest comedy on a crash-and-burn–style pretentious New York chef The post Seared: Theresa Rebeck’s Kitchen-Set Comedy Needs Mo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Macbeth: A Slimmed-Down Version of the Scottish Play by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare’s murderous Scots. The post Macbeth: A Sl…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:30PM
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Raise Your Voices and Dance by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed   The post For Colored Girls Who Hav…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM

Bella Bella: Hats Off to Harvey Fierstein’s Abzug Homage by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show The post Bella Bella: Hats Off to Harvey Fierstein…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Little Shop of Horrors: A Bloody Good Time by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ The beloved 1982 musical returns to its off-Broadway roots. Just don’t feed the plants! The post Little Shop of Horrors: A Bloody Good Time appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweeter the Second Time Around by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz The post The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweete…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation” The post Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:44PM
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Slave Play: Provocative, Poetic, and Disquieting by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Jeremy O. Harris’ phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food The post Slave Play: Provocative, Poetic, and Dis…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:15PM
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Freestyle Love Supreme: Hip-Hop Don’t Stop by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★ Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale’s improv phenomenon conquers Broadway The post Freestyle Love Supreme: Hip-Hop Don’t Stop ap…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Dublin Carol: Whiskey on the Rocks by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Irish Rep stages a too-grim revival of one of Conor McPherson’s grimmest plays The post Dublin Carol: Whiskey on the Rocks appeared first on New York Stage Revie…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

The Height of the Storm: Cloudy Skies Ahead by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are entrancing as husband and wife in Florian Zeller’s going-gently-into-that-good-night drama The post The Height of the Storm:…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM

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