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★★★★☆ The actor, new to the Manhattan Stage, makes himself known, as does director Nicola Murphy Dubey
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
★★★☆☆ The Duffer Brothers go Broadway, Kate Trefry scripts, Stephen Daldry directs, Louis McCartney leads hard-working cast
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:59PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
★★★☆☆ The often enigmatic playwright unfurls four one-acts, James MacDonald directing, Deirdre O'Connoll, others acting nicely
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
★★★★☆ Adam Gwon's new musical is a pleasure, aided by cast and director Jonathan Silverstein
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMSunday, April 13, 2025
★★★★☆ The 1986 Nobel Prize-winner looks closely at Nigeria's swamp area, with Awoye Timpo directing
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:53PMWednesday, April 9, 2025
★★★★☆ Tommy Dorfman is the transitioning Chava in Emil Weinstein's adaptation of Abby Chava Stein's memoir
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
★★★★★ Stephen Sondheim's brilliance celebrated by Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Matthew Bourne, other swells
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PMFriday, April 4, 2025
★☆☆☆☆ Adapter-director Benedict Andrews offers a questionable new take on the classic
The post The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov Gets an Unforgiving Axe appeared first on New York …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59AMThursday, April 3, 2025
★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:58PMThursday, March 20, 2025
★★★★☆ London hit written and played by genius group SpitLip, directed by Robert Hastie, choreographed by Jenny Arnold
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:58PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
★★★★☆ Jade King Carroll sharply directs an exceptional cast, led by Daniel Abeles and Molly Carden
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMMonday, March 17, 2025
★★★☆☆ Phylicia Rashad keenly directs a first-rate six member-cast featuring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:57PMMonday, March 10, 2025
★★★☆☆ Jack O'Brien directs Mark O'Rowe's adaptation, with Lily Rabe and Levon Hawke acting like spectral blazes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PMSunday, March 9, 2025
★★★☆☆ Natalie Margolin's slightly hampered dramedy, well directed by Jaki Bradley and well played
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
★★★☆☆ D. A. Mindell is fired up on the subject, as are director Jess McLeod and raring-to-go cast of six.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
★★☆☆☆ Calista Flockhart, Christian Slater, Cooper Hoffman, Stella Marcus, directed by Scott Elliott, end up dysfunctioned
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:59PMThursday, February 20, 2025
★★★☆☆ Harold Brighouse peers at North England politics, with the cast led by Daniel Marconi
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:29PMThursday, February 6, 2025
★★★☆☆ Composer-lyricist Mark Hollman, book writer-lyricist Greg Kotis, director Teddy Bergman revitalize the unforgettable classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:09PMSunday, January 26, 2025
★★★★☆ Krapp's Last Tape, Not I, Play, with F. Murray Abraham, Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street, Ciarán O'Reilly directing
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMSunday, December 22, 2024
★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:57PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Actors McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger, director Shira Milikowsky distinguish Ken Urban's confusing drama
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:51PMThursday, November 21, 2024
★★☆☆☆ Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are the contentious bffs, with Christopher Gattelli directing-choreographing
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:57PM★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:53PMThursday, November 14, 2024
★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:57PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMMonday, November 11, 2024
★★★★☆ James Monroe Inglehart stars in a tribute to one of the true 20th-century jazz greats
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PMFriday, November 8, 2024
★★★★☆ John Collins directs, Scott Shepherd narrates, with some past and some new cast members
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:58PMFriday, November 1, 2024
★★★★★ The Terrence McNally-Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens flawless work, directed by Lear deBessonet, choreographed by Ellenore Scott
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:08PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
★★★☆☆ Harry Teinowitz brings his own experience to the stage, with Dan Butler playing the role
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:57PMSunday, October 27, 2024
★★★★☆ Songwriters Daniel and Patrick Lazour and hard-working cast triumph, under Taibi Magar's direction
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM 
