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Thursday, March 5, 2026

The Reservoir *** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg March 5, 2026: Brain health. It’s much more than a contemporary idea, and it triumphs here, in Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir at The Atlantic Theater.   One might think …

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Bigfoot **** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons March 5, 2026: Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a legendary apelike creature that has its origins in the Indigenous folklore of the Pacific Northwest. But he didn’…

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Monday, March 2, 2026

Bigfoot!- A New Musical* 1/2 by Barry Gordin

YOUR KIND OF CAMP? By Alix Cohen March 2, 2026. Camp (idiomatic/aesthetic sense) refers to a style or sensibility that embraces exaggeration, theatricality, artificiality, and deliberate …

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Friday, February 27, 2026

Chinese Republicans *** by Barry Gordin

UNITED AGAINST BIAS, DIVIDED BY POWER By Alix Cohen February 27, 2026: Prejudice against Chinese women in corporate America often operates at the intersection of race and gender, where st…

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Debby Boone Returns to New York After a Decade For Her 54 Below Debut and New Show “It’s Been a While” by Barry Gordin

By Ellis Nassour February 24, 2026: Grammy winner and a seven-time Grammy nominee Debby Boone, quite celebrated as a multiple cross-over artist with Top 10 successes in pop, contemporary, a…

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Monday, February 23, 2026

Mother Russia ** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter February 23, 2026: Mother Russia, Lauren Yee’s satiric fantasia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, arrives at Signature Theatre with an ambition that i…

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

The Monsters ***** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter February 21, 2026: Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at NY City Center Stage II, is one of those rare evenings in the theater when you …

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Friday, February 20, 2026

White Room Gallery – Wild Things by Barry Gordin

Wild Things featuring Markus Klinko, Stephen Hall, and Mital Patel on view at The White Room Gallery March 6 - April 12, 2026. February 20, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, …

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Ringling Bros. and Feld Entertainment present “The Greatest Show on Earth” in a Reimagined, High Energy Edition. by Barry Gordin

By Ellis Nassour February 19, 2026: Step inside 148th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s next iteration of The Greatest Show On Earth and, though it may not hit or shock …

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The Dinosaurs **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward February 17, 2026: Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs at Playwrights Horizons starts out like a straightforward depiction of a weekly support group modeled on Alcoholics Anonym…

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Monday, February 16, 2026

The Dinosaurs ** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L Leiter February 16, 2026: Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs, now receiving its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, belongs to the category we might call the “group therapy p…

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The Monsters *** by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons February 16, 2026: If you like plays with a lot of physical action, easy humor and obvious pathos, don’t miss The Monsters, a two-hander written and directed by Ngozi …

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Jeff Harnar: Blame It On My Youth – 1980’s Don’t Tell Mama Songbook by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen February 14, 2026: Jeff Harnar’s last two shows/CDs set an extraordinarily high bar. Tonight, with the recreation of his first 1987 appearance at Don’t Tell Mama, he and c…

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Monsters *** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg February 12, 2026: It’s Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer…

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The Monsters ****, High Spirits **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward February 12, 2026: The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters at the intimate Stage II at City Center in a Manhattan Theater Club production, go through quite a w…

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Direct from West End, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Nominee Vanessa Williams Returns to 54 Below with “The Comfort Zone” by Barry Gordin

By Ellis Nassour  February 11, 2026: Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee and former Miss America Vanessa Williams, fresh from  her West End debut in the dazzling musical The Devil Wears Prada,…

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward February 7, 2026: In a program interview, director-choreographer Danny Mefford reveals he never saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee before taking on its first-ev…

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Thursday, February 5, 2026

The Disappear ** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter February 5, 2026: Erika Schmidt’s disappointing The Disappear, now at Off Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre, is a drawing-room comedy of manners whose surface polish i…

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

‘Jazz Chanson’- A French Nightingale Captivates by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen February 4, 2026: When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocali…

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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Peter Calo- Singer/Songwriter- A Helluva Good Time by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen February 1, 2026. Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The …

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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Ulysses *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward January 31, 2026: The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as Fitzgerald (Gatz, its day-long version of The Great Gatsby),…

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

White Room Gallery by Barry Gordin

IMAGINE featuring Elise Remender on view at The White Room Gallery through March 1, 2026. January 27, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will pr…

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Edward ***** by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg January 27, 2026: On a recent Saturday night at the POWERHOUSE Arena, an independent bookstore in DUMBO, I fell into my first adventure with the playwright Ed Schmidt.  To…

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Five Reasons Why Marjorie Prime Should be on Everyone’s Must-See List by Barry Gordin

By Iris Wiener January 26, 2026: The Broadway production of Marjorie Prime unfolds in a near future where artificial intelligence has become intimate enough to share a living room. Written …

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Data **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward January 26, 2026: Matthew Libby’s Data could have easily become like one of those made-for-streaming spy thrillers in which attractive young techies steal vital software …

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Sea Dog Theater – Stories of Alienation and Reconciliation by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen January 26, 2026: Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He’d fostere…

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Five Reasons Why Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) Is One of Broadway’s Sweetest Surprises by Barry Gordin

By Iris Wiener January 26, 2026: In a Broadway season often defined by scale and spectacle, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is a reminder of the power of simplicity. Now playing…

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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Michele Bettencourt : Vampire Time  by Barry Gordin

By Alix Cohen January 25, 2026: Protest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way for original songwriters. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs Buffy St. Marie and Nina Si…

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Thursday, January 22, 2026

An Ark ** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward January 22, 2025: Billed as a “new play with mixed reality,” Simon Stephens’ An Ark begs the questions “Is it theater?” and “Does the technology make up for a l…

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Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Bookstore *** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

THE RESPITE By Alix Cohen January 17 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct for what someone should read. There’s a kind of justice to her owning a b…

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Bug *** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter January 27, 2026: As the first-rate actress Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) can testify, theatre can be dangerous. Coon is currently starring as Agnes White in the Broadway…

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