Thursday, April 23, 2026
★★☆☆☆ Overproduced, underconceived, superfluous revival of a property long past its sell-by date
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:29PMWednesday, April 22, 2026
★★☆☆☆ A beloved (in some quarters) movie weepie, set to music, can't get past its threadbare plot
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:59PMMonday, April 20, 2026
★★★★☆ A townful of creatives, working in easy harmony, fuels a warm homage to musicals and those who love them
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMWednesday, April 15, 2026
★★★☆☆ A Broadway-hopeful laugh-fest is long on its players' comedy chops, if a little light on grace
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:10AMThursday, February 5, 2026
★★★★☆ Encores fulfills its mission by bringing an undeservedly forgotten musical triumphantly back from the dead
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:40PMThursday, January 15, 2026
★★☆☆☆ Musicalization of a popular young adult novel about people’s cruelty toward human difference is too-thinly told and too-broadly played
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:15AMThursday, November 20, 2025
★★★★☆ The travails of adolescence get a hard-hitting and sympathetic airing in a work of epic proportions
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:56PMMonday, November 17, 2025
★★★☆☆ A skillful cast explores the Armenian American experience across two eras, a century apart
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMSunday, November 16, 2025
★★☆☆☆ Two musical theater kings and a queen strive mightily with a famously elusive concept album, but play to a draw
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:59PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
★★★★☆ A flawless cast and thoughtful direction turn a famously problematic tuner into a darling, healing event
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMMonday, November 10, 2025
★★☆☆☆ Michael Urie and entourage double down on facile gimmickry and leave Shakespeare behind
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:59PMSunday, November 9, 2025
★★★★☆ Kristin Chenoweth rules in the role of a lifetime as a true believer in the American Dream
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:59PMSunday, October 5, 2025
★★☆☆☆ A quartet of disaffected souls assembles in the mountains of Western Mass. to explain, indeed overexplain, their problems
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMMonday, September 8, 2025
★★☆☆☆ The re-creation of a real-life encounter between the King and the Fab Four isn't as fab as it ought to be
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:51PMFriday, July 25, 2025
A venerable theater fest rises like a phoenix in its 71st year to celebrate Tennessee Williams
The post From Massachusetts: Williamstown, New Festival, New Focus appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMThursday, June 5, 2025
★★★★☆ A modest but charming musical rom-com from the UK plucks at the heart, and the players are the main reason
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:10PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
★★★★☆ The origin story for a fan-fave Netflix TV series uses every conceivable means to knock our socks off – and does
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:59PMMonday, April 21, 2025
★★☆☆☆ Overproduction cripples the Broadway debut of a much-admired intimate art musical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMMonday, April 7, 2025
★★★☆☆ Betty Boop flies out of B&W cartoons into today’s living color, with glittery star quality but a saggy story
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PMSunday, April 6, 2025
★★★☆☆ A much-loved musical love story, featuring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, makes a stylish but uneven Broadway debut
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
★★★★★ A classic documentary on Afro-Cuban musical greats is transformed into a sparkling Broadway delight
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:58PMMonday, March 17, 2025
★★★★☆ Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explores a prominent family's ethical drifts in the muscular Steppenwolf Theater tradition
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
★★★★☆ Ayodele Casel's guide to great female tap dancers of yesterday and today makes for an unforgettable night at the theater
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:51PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
★★★☆☆ Talent, taste, and Avett Brothers sea-chanties serve a grim morality tale that doesn't quite stay afloat
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:55PMSunday, November 17, 2024
★★★★☆ Splashy stage version of the holiday movie perennial offers visual delight for the moppets, and wit for the grownups
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:55PMMonday, October 7, 2024
★★★☆☆ Musicalizing a hit ’90s rom-com gains luster from the hit ’60s playlist of Bacharach and David
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:41AMMonday, August 12, 2024
★★★★☆ Sutton Foster unleashes her inner clown in a torrent of hilarity, bringing new luster to a familiar property
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:55PMFriday, July 26, 2024
★★★★☆ Julia Murney, Kathleen Turner and an excellent ensemble collaborate on an atypically sensual take on a Wheeler/Sondheim masterpiece
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:43PMThursday, July 11, 2024
★★★★☆ Cole Escola writes and stars in a Bizarro World version of Honest Abe's spouse as cabaret diva
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:56PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
★★★☆☆ A tender coming-of-age extravaganza, with characters to root for and music to die for
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:56PMFriday, April 19, 2024
★★★★★ David Adjmi takes us behind the music to reveal how the magic gets made
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:54PM 
