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JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN
Kimberly Belflower offers a searing,
contemporary look at the hero of The Crucible
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy
★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat

Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Not for Purists, but Fun for Everyone Else
★★★★☆ Rupert Holmes delivers an entertaining, New Orleans-flavored adaptation of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan operetta

Hold Me in the Water: An Intimate Boy-Meets-Boy Story
★★★★☆ Ryan J. Haddad shares a tale of summer love in his autobiographical 70-minute one-man show

Grief Camp: Loss at an Emotional Remove
★★☆☆☆ Eliya Smith's amorphous drama revolves around young campers working through bereavement issues.

Stranger Things–The First Shadow: We Will Control The Horizontal
★★★★☆ The origin story for a fan-fave Netflix TV series uses every conceivable means to knock our socks off – and does

Stranger Things—The First Shadow: Stage Version of Series Maybe Not Strange Enough
★★★☆☆ The Duffer Brothers go Broadway, Kate Trefry scripts, Stephen Daldry directs, Louis McCartney leads hard-working cast

Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925
★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama

Floyd Collins: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy
★★☆☆☆ Overproduction cripples the Broadway debut of a much-admired intimate art musical
Critics’ Picks

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’
★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow
★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage
★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore
★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

Buena Vista Social Club: ¡Qué Gran Fiesta!
★★★★★ A classic documentary on Afro-Cuban musical greats is transformed into a sparkling Broadway delight

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

Vanya: Andrew Scott Goes Virtuoso in a Solo Show
★★★★☆ Expect no Russian dressing but plenty of Irish accents in this Chekhov adaptation

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