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David Finkle

April 17, 2024 10:56 pm

The Wiz: Revival Doesn’t Ease Down the Road Easily

★★★☆☆ Nichelle Lewis is Dorothy in Amber Ruffin’s revamping of the audience favorite

April 14, 2024 10:55 pm

Lempicka: Admired Artist Tamara de Lempicka Musicalized, With Limited Artistry

★★★☆☆ Eden Espinosa stars in Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould’s tuner, directed by Rachel Chavkin

April 11, 2024 8:50 pm

Macbeth (an undoing): The Shakespeare Classic Undone to a Fare-Thee-Well

★★☆☆☆ Zinnie Harris is the problematic playwright as well as the much more adept director of this ill-advised project

March 28, 2024 8:54 pm

The Who’s Tommy: The Ground-Breaking Rock Opera Seen, Heard, Felt in Sizzling Revival

★★★★☆ Director Des McAnuff selects top-notch cast and creative team for Pete Townsend classic, with Lorin Latarro choreographing

March 21, 2024 8:00 pm

Like They Do in the Movies: Laurence Fishburne’s Autobiography in Unspared Candor

★★★★☆ The acclaimed Tony winner and screen actor offers an entertaining and revealing self portrait

March 19, 2024 9:30 pm

Teeth: A Rip-Roaring Revenge Musical With Teeth, Many of Them

★★★☆☆ Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs, with Sarah Benson directing, add a score to the scarifying 2007 movie Teeth

March 14, 2024 8:00 pm

Ibsen’s Ghost: Charles Busch Triumphs as the Irresponsible Widow Ibsen

★★★★☆ Carl Andress directs a grand cast investigating the deceased playwright’s familial entanglements

March 11, 2024 9:54 pm

Corruption: J.T. Rogers Unleashes Sizzling Stage Documentary

★★★★☆ Bartlett Sher directs a 13-member cast exposing a 2010-2011 British hacking scandal

March 7, 2024 8:54 pm

Doubt: John Patrick Shanley’s Prize-Winning Play in a Blessed Revival

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★★★★☆ Scott Ellis directs Amy Ryan, Liev Schreiber, Zoe Kazan, and Quincy Tyler Bernstine to undoubted effect

February 26, 2024 8:00 pm

Fiasco Theater’s Pericles: Creative Troupe Has Fun with Unwieldy Shakespeare

★★★★☆ Ben Steinfeld directs Fiasco’s viewer-friendly version of the rarely-produced tragedy

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The Imaginary Invalid: Just What the Doctor Ordered

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Molière’s final play gets a lively, luxe-looking 90-minute adaptation by its star, Tony winner Bill Irwin

The Imaginary Invalid: Hacks and Quacks

By Michael Sommers

★★★★☆ Bill Irwin stars in his own fresh adaptation of Moliere’s satirical look at the medical profession

Phyl: A Free Spirited Woman of 1913

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Mint Theatre presents Cicely Hamilton’s 1913 social comedy on female self determination

860: Billy Crystal Brings Down the House

By Roma Torre

★★★★★ Crystal is at his comedic best proving a lifetime of memories are fireproof.

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★★★★☆ John Benjamin Hickey directs a new Broadway version of the darkly funny family drama

Kramer/Fauci: Friendly Adversaries Tangle Over AIDS Progress

★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again

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★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a first-rate cast in Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy

Ford Hill

The Ford/Hill Project: Provocative, Totally True, and Way Too Timely

★★★★☆ Two men and two women re-create, verbatim, two memorable and distressingly similar Senate judiciary committee hearings 27 years apart

Just in Time: Jeremy Jordan Will Be Your Bobby Darin From Now On

★★★★☆ Replacing Jonathan Groff, the Broadway veteran delivers a stellar turn in the musical that merits a repeat viewing.

Oh, Mary!: Lincoln, Drinkin’ and Todd

★★★★☆ Cole Escola writes and stars in a Bizarro World version of Honest Abe's spouse as cabaret diva

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