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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Tony Nominations Snubs and Surprises: Denzel Washington Misses for ‘Othello’ and More by Jesse Green, Alexis Soloski and Scott Heller

Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025? by Jesse Green

Our chief theater critic makes his picks.

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: This Bandit Has Mummy Issues by Jesse Green

A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Channels Bobby Darin by Jesse Green

Groff is sensational as the ’60s “nightclub animal” in a Broadway bio-musical jukebox that doesn’t live up to its star.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleans by Jesse Green

A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Review: Caryl Churchill Times Four Makes an Infinity of Worlds by Jesse Green

“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp,” a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ It’s the Girls vs. the Men by Jesse Green

Kimberly Belflower’s play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against “The Crucible.”

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: In a Musical Comedy Makeover, ‘Smash’ Lives Up to Its Name by Jesse Green

En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs by Jesse Green

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

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The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn by Jesse Green

The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.

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Monday, April 7, 2025

‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Broadway Brand Extension by Jesse Green

The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.

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Sunday, April 6, 2025

‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren Star in a Muddy Revival by Jesse Green

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

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Friday, April 4, 2025

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ by Jesse Green

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr by Jesse Green

Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Starring Sarah Snook and 3 Million Pixels by Jesse Green

The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

In ‘Othello,’ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator by Jesse Green

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe by Jesse Green

A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’ by Jesse Green

Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite by Jesse Green

A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’ by Jesse Green

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone by Jesse Green

Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

‘Sumo’ Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons by Jesse Green

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

‘Grangeville’ Review: Am I My Half Brother’s Keeper? by Jesse Green

A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized by Jesse Green

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger by Jesse Green

Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in ‘Redwood’ by Jesse Green

The “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits by Jesse Green

According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof by Jesse Green

The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In by Jesse Green

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover by Jesse Green

“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

‘Tammy Faye’ and ‘Cinderella’ Were Hits in London but Failed on Broadway by Jesse Green

What happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?

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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