Monday, April 27, 2020
After a few technical difficulties, ‘Take Me to the World’ was the Sondheim celebration that theater-starved Broadway babies were waiting for
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★★★☆☆ A new musical by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman gets a handsome production at Playwrights Horizons
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★★★★ The author of ‘Hurt Village’ and ‘The Mountaintop’ spreads her wings with a serious relationship- and family-focused drama
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★★★★ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face
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★★★★ Lauren Yee’s play finally gets its New York premiere and a rockin’ production at the Signature Theatre
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★★★★ Brushed off and spiffed up, the cult favorite 1974 musical finally gets the Encores! treatment
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★★★ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City
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★★★ Oscar nominee Ruth Negga makes a stellar New York stage debut in a somewhat tedious staging of Shakespeare’s soliloquy-heavy tragedy
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★★★★★ Director Michael Greif brings the musical to D.C. for a brief but intensely emotional run starring Rachel Bay Jones
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★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
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★★★★ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
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★★★★ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
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★★★★ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley
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★★★★ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza
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★★ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama
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★★★ Gerard Alessandrini’s valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities
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“Ooh, this could get messy,” sings the ensemble of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill at the top of Act 2. It’s actually a bit from “Hands Clean” — not a song from the eponymous 199…
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★★★★ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play ‘A Bright Room Called Day’
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★★★★ America's most popular living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, shines a spotlight on two history-making female scientists
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★★★★ Thanks to star Solea Pfeiffer, the City Center Encores! production will leave you on a rainbow high
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 02:11PM★★★★ The Tony-winning Broadway baritone is as swoon-worthy as ever in a show packed with his holiday and showtune favorites
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★★★★★ Anna Deavere Smith’s one-person show still burns bright with star Michael Benjamin Washington and a timely-as-ever theme
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★★★★ The ever-popular Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway with a too-brief concert run
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★★★ Theresa Rebeck centers her newest comedy on a crash-and-burn–style pretentious New York chef
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★★★★ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare’s murderous Scots.
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★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed
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Linked From nystagereview.com at 09:51PM★★★★ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show
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★★★★ The beloved 1982 musical returns to its off-Broadway roots. Just don’t feed the plants!
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★★ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz
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★★★ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”
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★★★★ Jeremy O. Harris’ phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food
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