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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Broadway Review: “Boop! The Musical” at the Broadhurst Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

If you are not a Baby Boomer, chances are you would have never seen any of the black and white Betty Boop cartoons that made the spit curl bombshell a household name. Now that she has made h…

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Friday, April 25, 2025

Outer Critics Circle Announces Nominees for 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards by David Roberts

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Out…

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival 2025 Season Lineup Announced by David Roberts

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is proud to announce its 2025 Season, showcasing the brand-new works of playwrights from across the country at AMT Theater on 45th Street. “We’re so excit…

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Friday, April 18, 2025

Broadway Review: “Purpose” at the Hayes Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

Currently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, incl…

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Broadway Review: “Smash” at the Imperial Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The new musical “Smash,” opening on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, creates more than one bombshell, strategically detonating a multitude of explosive twists, turns, and powerful produ…

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Broadway Review: “Glengarry Glen Ross” at the Palace Theatre (Through Saturday, June 28, 2025) by David Roberts

Act One of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” currently running at the Palace Theatre takes place at a well-apportioned Chinese restaurant. Skillfully navigating Mamet’s iconic word…

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Broadway Review: “The Last Five Years” at the Hudson Theatre (Through Sunday, June 22, 2025) by David Roberts

“The Last Five Years” featuring a book, music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, has had a long journey since first opening in Chicago in 2001. It has had two off Broadway runs, two Lond…

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Broadway Review: “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Through Sunday, June 15, 2025) by David Roberts

One of the latest offerings to open on Broadway comes in the form of a tribute musical revue, dedicated to the incredible work of the iconic composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. It is de…

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Monday, April 7, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Wine in the Wilderness” at Classic Stage Company (Extended through Saturday, April 19, 2025) by David Roberts

The themes explored in Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness” currently running at Classic Stage Company include classism and economic struggles; the resilience and strength of com…

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Friday, April 4, 2025

Broadway Review: “Good Night, and Good Luck” at the Winter Garden Theatre (Through Saturday, May 31, 2025) by David Roberts

Yet another new production enters the current Broadway season boasting a well-known film and television star, a large movie screen, and several television screens that surround the prosceniu…

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Ghosts” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (Extended through Saturday, April 26, 2025) by David Roberts

There are skeletons in Helena Alving’s (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bev…

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Broadway Review: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB™ at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The creative team for the musical “Buena Vista Social Club” have been hard at work making a few changes in preparation for its Broadway debut after a successful run at the Atlantic Theat…

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Broadway Review: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Music Box Theatre (Through Sunday, June 15, 2025) by David Roberts

A star-studded production has found its way to Broadway from Sydney Australia, with an adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. This transformation of the classic is wr…

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Monday, March 24, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Vanya” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Through Sunday, May 11, 2025) by David Roberts

In Simon Stephens’s brilliant “Vanya,” the adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya, Andrew Scott portrays the eight main characters from the 1897 play. He depicts these familiar…

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Broadway Review: “Operation Mincemeat” at the John Golden Theatre (Through Monday, August 18, 2025) by David Roberts

The latest import from London is a perfect example of the broad slapstick comedy that British audiences are fond of across the pond, and it joins the ranks of several similar shows that have…

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Off-Broadway Short Review: “Grangeville” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre (Through Sunday, March 23, 20 by David Roberts

Two half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Grangeville” currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel B…

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Monday, March 17, 2025

Festival Review: “Julius Caesar” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Examines Power, Betrayal, and Gender Embodiment (Through October 26, 2025) by David Roberts

The first preview of the norm-disrupting production of “Julius Caesar” kicked off a promising start to this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, now in its 90th season. During the presh…

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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Conversations with Mother” at Theater 555 (Through Sunday, May 11, 2025) by David Roberts

The new play by Matthew Lombardo titled “Conversations with Mother” now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 555, is a lighthearted and comical evening of entertainment, mostly due to the ext…

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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Sunday, by David Roberts

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center fo…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “Curse of the Starving Class” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater by David Roberts

Sam Shephard’s iconic 1977 “Curse of the Starving Class” is enjoying its second revival production at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The 2019 Terry Kinney revival (also at Persh…

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Broadway Review: “Redwood” at the Nederlander Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The new musical “Redwood,” which recently opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, certainly lives up to the title, featuring the magnificent giant redwood tree that seamlessly mov…

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Friday, February 21, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: “The Antiquities” at Playwrights Horizons (Extended through Sunday, March 2, 2025) by David Roberts

The full title of “The Antiquities” currently running at Playwrights Horizons is “A Tour of the Permanent Collection in the Museum of the Late Human Antiquities.” The title contains …

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Friday, December 27, 2024

Broadway Review: “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The widely anticipated revival of “Gypsy “on Broadway has finally arrived, along with the reopening of the Majestic Theatre after a healthy renovation, requiring the theatre to be closed…

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Broadway Review: “Cult of Love” at the Helen Hayes (Currently On) by David Roberts

It is important to pay attention to the title of a play, especially in the case of Leslye Headland’s well-crafted “Cult of Love” currently running at the Helen Hayes. The Dahl nuclear …

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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Broadway Review: “Eureka Day” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

What could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle.…

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: The New Group’s “Babe” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater (Through Sunday, Decembe by David Roberts

Abby (Marisa Tomei) has co-produced records with Gus (Arliss Howard) for thirty-two years. She had been his right hand, but her name never appears on the album as co-producer. She finds tale…

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “The Blood Quilt” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitze E. Newhouse Theater (Through Sunday, December 29, 2024) by David Roberts

Families of any number, age, or culture often meet for special occasions, some more special than others. Depending on the mix of those above descriptors, these get-togethers result in quite …

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Broadway Review: “Maybe Happy Ending” at the Belasco Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The charming new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending,” now playing at the Belasco Theatre, with music composed by Will Aronson and the book and lyrics penned by Mr. Aronson and Hue Park, will c…

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Broadway Review: “Sunset Blvd.” at the St. James Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

Gone are the turban, the grand staircase, the jewels, the chandeliers, the drapes, and the viewing of Norma Desmond’s monkey in the reimagining of “Sunset Blvd.” currently running at t…

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Off-Broadway Review: “Shit. Meet. Fan.” at MCC Theater’s New Mills Theater (Through Sunday, September 15, 2024) by David Roberts

As the characters are pressured into having their dirty laundry aired in the new play “Shit. Meet. Fan.” which is now in an extended run at MCC Theater, the list of reasons why the show …

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Broadway Review: “Swept Away” at the Longacre Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

“Swept Away,” currently on at the Longacre Theatre, was inspired by the 2004 album “Mignonette” by the American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers. Although the album was suggested b…

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre