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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Every Brilliant Thing: A Lustrous Evening with Daniel Radcliffe by Steven Suskin

★★★★★ Duncan Macmillan’s play is an unexpected Broadway treat The post Every Brilliant Thing: A Lustrous Evening with Daniel Radcliffe appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00PM
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Chinese Republicans: Clever, Venom-Tipped Arrows, Ineffectively Aimed by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Alex Lin’s barbed comedy at the Roundabout doesn’t quite hit its target The post Chinese Republicans: Clever, Venom-Tipped Arrows, Ineffectively Aimed appeared first on N…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Amahl and the Night Visitors: Grand Opera, Grandly Done by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Gian Carlo Menotti's one-act opera shines as a holiday attraction The post Amahl and the Night Visitors: Grand Opera, Grandly Done appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Tartuffe: Sparkling Wine, Without the Sparkle by Steven Suskin

★★☆☆☆ Matthew Broderick and David Cross in Lucas Hnath’s Adaptation of Molière The post Tartuffe: Sparkling Wine, Without the Sparkle appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:01PM
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Porgy and Bess: Masterful Masterwork at Met by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ The George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward-Ira Gershwin folk musical in fine, full form The post Porgy and Bess: Masterful Masterwork at Met appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:26PM
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical The post Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improve…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:33PM
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Rob Lake Magic: Shattered Illusions by Steven Suskin

★★☆☆☆ Even Miss Piggy can’t elevate this generic holiday-season magic show The post Rob Lake Magic: Shattered Illusions appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:30PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

The Baker’s Wife: Fabled Flop Charms in Amiable Revival by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Scott Bakula, Adriana DeBose, and Judy Kuhn enhance Stephen Schwartz’s underbaked musical The post The Baker’s Wife: Fabled Flop Charms in Amiable Revival appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PM
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Adam Gopnik’s New York: Gallery Talk, Par Excellence by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ The New Yorker writer offers an enchanted evening of sparklingly witty discourse The post Adam Gopnik’s New York: Gallery Talk, Par Excellence appeared first on New York S…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:13PM
Monday, September 8, 2025

This Is Government: Contemporary Comedy about Workplace Lockdown by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Nina Kissinger mines comedy from a Congressional bomb threat, but doesn’t quite pull it off The post This Is Government: Contemporary Comedy about Workplace Lockdown appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:02PM
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Twelfth Night: Moonlit Enchantment As Shakespeare Returns to the Park by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Lupito Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage spark director Saheem Ali’s contemporary take on the Bard’s comedy The post Twelfth Night: Moonlit Enchantment As Shakespea…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Pride & Prejudice: Austen Sparkles in 3-Person Capsule Version by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ A breezy romp with Lizzy Bennet, Mr. Darcy, et al. The post Pride & Prejudice: Austen Sparkles in 3-Person Capsule Version appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Wonderful Town: Bernstein-Comden-Green Musical in Not So Wonderful Revival by Steven Suskin

★★☆☆☆ The durably entertaining musical comedy falls flat, this time, at Encores The post Wonderful Town: Bernstein-Comden-Green Musical in Not So Wonderful Revival appeared first o…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:28PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye by Steven Suskin

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive The post Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Ey…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00PM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter The post Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown's charming chamber musical The post The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:59PM
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Love Life: Lost Lerner/Weill Musical Demonstrates Why It Was Lost by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes-Mitchell star in the latest from Encores The post Love Life: Lost Lerner/Weill Musical Demonstrates Why It Was Lost appeared first on New York S…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:40PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

We Had a World: ‘Virginia Woolf, Part 2,’ With Jokes by Steven Suskin

★★★★★ Playwright Joshua Harmon explores and explodes his roots, with Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason The post We Had a World: ‘Virginia Woolf, Part 2,’ With Jokes appea…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PM
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deep Blue Sound: A Quiet, Gentle, Whale of a Play by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Maryann Plunkett and an excellent cast spark a return engagement of Abe Koogler's play The post Deep Blue Sound: A Quiet, Gentle, Whale of a Play appeared first on New York S…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:29PM
Monday, February 24, 2025

Grangeville: Art, Anguish, and Wonder from Samuel D. Hunter by Steven Suskin

★★★★★ An exceptional play with fine work from director Jack Serio and actors Brian J. Smith and Paul Sparks The post Grangeville: Art, Anguish, and Wonder from Samuel D. Hunter app…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PM
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play by Steven Suskin

★☆☆☆☆ Hawkish comedy is strictly for the birds The post Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PM
Monday, January 27, 2025

Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Playwright Ken Ludwig finds literary delight in the family attic The post Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm appeared first on New York Stage Revie…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:39PM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights The post Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:58PM
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Dead, 1904: James Joyce and The Living, 2024 by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ A Dubliner's midwinter’s night dream, on upper Fifth Avenue   The post The Dead, 1904: James Joyce and The Living, 2024 appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:59PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Elf: Irrepressible Holiday Hijinks, for Adults and Kids Too by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Affably goofy Grey Henson shines in revival of endearing screen-to-stage musical The post Elf: Irrepressible Holiday Hijinks, for Adults and Kids Too appeared first on New Y…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:56PM

The Light and the Dark: Scandal in Chiaroscuro, For Today by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ A play about a spirited 17th century girl who determines she will become a master painter like Caravaggio, and does so, might seem a tad esoteric. And the notion of a two-hou…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00PM
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Tammy Faye: Praise the Lord and Pump Up the Video by Steven Suskin

★★☆☆☆ Evangelical sex scandal with sequins fizzles, from Elton John and friends The post Tammy Faye: Praise the Lord and Pump Up the Video appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:56PM
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Strike Up the Band: Gershwin Goes to Carnegie Hall by Steven Suskin

The not-quite-classic musical in a not-quite-effective concert version, despite fine musical elements led by Ted Sperling, with Bryce Pinkham, Christopher Fitzgerald, John Ellison Conlee, an…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46AM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Our Town: Thornton Wilder’s Classic in Functional (but Less Than Gripping) Revival by Steven Suskin

★★★☆☆ Jim Parsons, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch and more in director Kenny Leon’s new production The post Our Town: Thornton Wilder’s Classic in Functional (but Less Than Grippi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58PM
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

The Counter: High-Octane Drama, Powered by Chock Full o’Nuts by Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood in Meghan Kennedy's forceful new play, directed by David Cromer The post The Counter: High-Octane Drama, Powered by Chock Full o’Nuts app…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Fatherland: Family Values, Insurrection-Style by Steven Suskin

★★☆☆☆ Unconvincing docudrama drawn from the January 6 riot The post Fatherland: Family Values, Insurrection-Style appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off